Kansas first state in the nation to ban 2nd Trimester Abortion procedures

[Lion Heart 15,041]

 

 

Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback, a Republican and strong abortion opponent, signed the nation’s first ever ban on second-trimester abortion procedures Tuesday.

Brownback and other lawmakers have said the law will prevent “dismemberment abortions” and hopefully act as a catalyst for similar legislation across the U.S. Bills outlawing second-trimester abortions have already been introduced in Missouri, Oklahoma, and South Carolina.

 

Under the Kansas law, the procedure is banned except when necessary to save a woman’s life or prevent irreversible damage to her physical health. Otherwise, doctors cannot use forceps, clamps, scissors, or similar instruments on a fetus to remove the baby from the womb in pieces, the Associated Press reported.

The new law goes into effect July 1, but already, Trust Women and Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri — two abortion rights groups that operate abortion services clinics — were threatening to challenge the ban in court.

The procedure is used in roughly 8% of abortions nationwide, with the vast majority taking place in the first trimester.

 

Brownback signed the bill at a private early morning ceremony, with his office tweeting a picture of him flanked by anti-abortion activists and two large photos of fetuses. More public signing reenactments were reportedly planned for later this month.

The measure was just the latest in a ongoing campaign by Kansas lawmakers to restrict access to abortions. Already, women must wait 24 hours after receiving state-directed counseling that includes information designed to discourage an abortion before getting the procedure done.

 

According to the Guttmacher Institute — a right to abortion research group that both sides cite — the Republican-led legislature has passed more than 20 measures imposing restrictions on the abortion since Brownback’s election in 2011, Reutersreported.

The latest restriction signed into law on Tuesday could still be challenged in court.

Anti-abortion groups, though, have said they are confident the new law would withstand a legal challenge based on a 2007 Supreme Court ruling upholding a federal ban on so-called “partial-birth abortion.”

 

But Widener University law professor John Culhane told the AP that the court’s 5-4 majority rejected an argument that the federal law would have banned the more common dilation and evacuation procedure described by the Kansas law.

“If it was so obvious that it wouldn’t run afoul of the court, you would have seen a law like this sooner,” he said.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/jasonwells/kansas-becomes-first-state-to-ban-second-trimester-abortion#.lfoMLd4GD

 

 

 

 

[venusian 4,686]

i am all for abortion and i don't care how they do it bc the baby barely has a brain so it can't register pain...

[Dorothy Gale 7,575]

i am all for abortion and i don't care how they do it bc the baby barely has a brain so it can't register pain...

So, that makes it moral? They cant feel pain? 

[Cody Draco 2,531]

So, that makes it moral? They cant feel pain? 

​The world is overpopulated. We are killing the Earth.

[JustPokeHerFace 2,564]

I personally don't like abortion but I support a woman's right to it. 

[venusian 4,686]

So, that makes it moral? They cant feel pain? 

​yeah pretty much if somebody doesn't want a baby then its there right ... and don't come at me with this bc my mom was raped and got pregnant and had an abortion bc she was homeless and had no money so how would she support he baby.. 

[Dorothy Gale 7,575]

​The world is overpopulated. We are killing the Earth.

So killings unborn children is the answer? I think there are better alternatives. Pregnancy is 99% preventable. 

[venusian 4,686]

So killings unborn children is the answer? I think there are better alternatives. Pregnancy is 99% preventable. 

​ok well a lot of people use condoms but that doesn't give a 100% chance of not getting pregnant

[HANZ 4,380]

"the procedure is banned except when necessary to save a woman’s life or prevent irreversible damage to her physical health."

I agree with this

[Cody Draco 2,531]

So killings unborn children is the answer? I think there are better alternatives. Pregnancy is 99% preventable. 

​If I had a child growing inside of me then I feel like it would be my right to either kill it or keep it, not anybody else's. It would be a part of me, not you.

I wish more people would adopt instead of contributing to the overpopulation problem.

[venusian 4,686]

​If I had a child growing inside of me then I feel like it would be my right to either kill it or keep it, not anybody else's. It would be a part of me, not you.

I wish more people would adopt instead of contributing to the overpopulation problem.

​yesses its there body and there decision

[Dorothy Gale 7,575]

​ok well a lot of people use condoms but that doesn't give a 100% chance of not getting pregnant

Abstinence is 100% effective. And each state has some form of safe haven law. 

[xoxo cupcakke 4,781]

I mean, I have to say. I agree with first trimester abortions but when it comes to second trimester abortions, I don't know what to think because that's when it gets tricky

[Dorothy Gale 7,575]

​If I had a child growing inside of me then I feel like it would be my right to either kill it or keep it, not anybody else's. It would be a part of me, not you.

I wish more people would adopt instead of contributing to the overpopulation problem.

I agree with the adoption part, but the body inside your body is not your body. It had its own DNA and is 100% unique. 

[xoxo cupcakke 4,781]

Abstinence is 100% effective. And each state has some form of safe haven law. 

That is what my health class told me too except they were absolutely pushing for abstinence which is what really ticked me off. It's effectiveness is unmatched but I don't like to be forcefed the concept by people who preach abstinence yet have children