http://www.kansas.com/news/politics-gov ... rylink=cpyNearly two years after the Legislature passed a law banning a type of second-trimester abortion, the Kansas Supreme Court will hear arguments in March on whether that law is constitutional.
The long-awaited oral arguments have been scheduled for March 16 in Topeka. And they’ll come before a Supreme Court majority that anti-abortion activists tried and failed to change in the November election.
The law . . . says doctors cannot use surgical tools to remove a live fetus in pieces. The procedure, known as dilation and evacuation, is used to perform about 95 percent of second-term abortions.
Abortion opponents say the procedure is inhumane and call it “dismemberment” abortion.
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The doctors’ argument basically boils down to two points: The Kansas Constitution . . . mirrors the federal Constitution in protecting a woman’s right to an abortion; and the alternatives to dilation and evacuation are more intrusive and potentially harmful to the woman, creating an undue burden in exercising her rights.
Kansas Supremes to Hear Dismemberment Abortion Law
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Kansas Supremes to Hear Dismemberment Abortion Law
‘Dismemberment’ abortion law set for Kansas Supreme Court hearing
