Kansas governor signs nation's 1st ban on abortion procedure

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

By JOHN HANNA

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas became the first state Tuesday to ban a common second-trimester abortion procedure that critics describe as dismembering a fetus.

Republican Gov. Sam Brownback, a strong abortion opponent, signed a bill imposing the ban, and the new law takes effect July 1. He and the National Right to Life Committee, which drafted the measure, said they hope Kansas' example spurs other states to enact such laws. Already, the measure also has been introduced in Missouri, Oklahoma and South Carolina.

"This law has the power to transform the landscape of abortion policy in the United States," committee president Carol Tobias said in a statement.

Two abortion rights groups that operate Kansas clinics with abortion services, Trust Women and Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri, said they're considering challenging the new law in court.

FULL story at link.



FILE - In this Jan. 22, 2013 file photo, Kansas Republican Gov. Sam Brownback speaks during a pro-life rally outside the Kansas Statehouse in Topeka, Kan. Brownback, a strong abortion opponent, signed a bill Tuesday, April 7, 2015 making Kansas the first state to ban a common second-trimester abortion procedure that critics describe as dismembering a fetus. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner, File)

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[sakabatou]

1. Ugh

[Comrade Grumpy]

2. They better challenge this in the courts.

[Judi Lynn]

3. Republicans can't stop trying to control other people's lives.

They are so stupid they don't realize how wildly insane they sound when they howl they don't want "gummint" butting into their lives.

[kimmylavin]

4. Because there's nothing else that needs to be done in Kansas.

Good lord.

[George II]

5. Is this the same dillweed that forbids welfare recipients from using their benefits on cruise ships?

What a major jerkoff!

[allan01]

6. they whine and bitch about government interferance . humbug

this is a big one

[davidpdx]

7. Throw Brownback and all the other idiots who voted for it in jail

I don't care if there were some Democrats, toss them in as well.

[Jefferson23]

8. The man who truly hates women and their children. n/t

[sinkingfeeling]

9. Kansas must need new taxpayers. All those old, white people must be dying

off. So every pregnancy must turn into a new Kansan.

[MrScorpio]

10. Press-ganging young, fertile women as "Handmaids" will be next, I suppose nt

[appalachiablue]

11. Lebensborn ('Fount of Life') Nazi policy from 1935 to encourage births from women of racial,

biological and Aryan suitability to increase the Germanic population.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebensborn

[Lithos]

12. Something to distract from failures...

Check...

[fasttense]

13. Break out the wire coat hangers and the

Back alley doctors. Women will have their abortions as they have always. Stupid laws will not stop a woman who really wants an abortion. Just like prohibition never stopped anyone from drinking. It will only cause the abortion to become dangerous and illegal.

You can not legislate some weird religious point of view and expect anyone to respect it.

[Red Knight]

14. Once the kid is born

They won't care about it a bit.