{"id":315229,"date":"2024-07-09T08:40:32","date_gmt":"2024-07-09T13:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=315229"},"modified":"2024-07-09T17:01:54","modified_gmt":"2024-07-09T22:01:54","slug":"kansas-strikes-down-pro-life-laws-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/kansas-strikes-down-pro-life-laws-justice\/","title":{"rendered":"Kansas Supreme Court strikes down two pro-life laws, as dissenting justice sends warning"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Kansas Supreme Court on Friday issued a ruling in several cases, striking down<\/a> two laws designed to protect preborn children from abortion. The court ruled<\/a> 5-1 to overturn of both these laws \u2014\u00a0a decision that led its sole dissenting justice, Justice Caleb Stegall, to warn that the state is heading toward \u201ca legal regime of unrestricted access to abortion.\u201d<\/p>\n

The first law overturned was one enacted to prohibit dilation and evacuation (D&E) dismemberment abortions, and the second would have regulated abortion facilities by requiring them to meet special licensing requirements and safety standards. As the Associated Press noted, “Neither law struck down by the court had been enforced because of the lawsuits against them by abortion providers.”<\/p>\n

The law prohibiting D&Es had been on hold since 2015, when a lawsuit was filed against it. The most common abortion procedure during the second trimester, this brutal, violent procedure is typically a days-long process in which the abortionist dilates the woman’s cervix and then uses a Sopher clamp to dismember the still-living preborn baby limb from torso before the skull is crushed.<\/p>\n

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