JUST IN: Kansas' highest court rules that the state constitution protects abortion rights and blocks a 1st-in-the-nation ban on a common 2nd trimester method for ending pregnancies.
TOPEKA, Kan. — Kansas' highest court ruled for the first time Friday that the state constitution protects abortion rights and blocked a first-in-the-nation ban on a common second trimester method for ending pregnancies.
"This right allows a woman to make her own decisions regarding her body, health, family formation, and family life — decisions that can include whether to continue a pregnancy," the court's unsigned majority opinion said. "The liberal, activist Supreme Court showed just how out of touch they are with Kansas values," Senate President Susan Wagle, a conservative Wichita Republican, said in a statement issued minutes after the decision."We understand that life is sacred, beginning at conception, and we must always stand and defend the most vulnerable among us, the unborn."
The decision Friday comes two years after the Kansas court heard arguments from attorneys, an unusually long delay for a ruling. Iowa's Supreme Court issued a similar decision in 2018. The Kansas law at issue would bar physicians from using forceps or similar instruments on a live fetus to remove it from the womb in pieces, using the non-medical term"dismemberment abortion" to describe the procedure. Such instruments are commonly used in dilation and evacuation procedure, which the Center for Reproductive Rights has described as the safest and most common abortion procedure in the U.S. in the second trimester.
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