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

[one_voice]

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.

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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.

Abortion rights supporters say the law, which bans the dilation and evacuation procedure and redefines it as "dismemberment," could be vulnerable to a lawsuit because it bans some abortions before a fetus can survive outside the womb and contains no mental health exception for the mother.

A Delaware-based law professor said U.S. Supreme Court precedents over the past 15 years suggest the Kansas law wouldn't survive a challenge but added that the justices may revise past stances.

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Anti-abortion groups are confident the new law will withstand a legal challenge, based on a U.S. Supreme Court ruling in 2007 in which it upheld a federal ban on a late-term procedure described by abortion opponents as "partial-birth abortion.

http://news.yahoo.com/kansas-governor-signs-nations-1st-ban-abortion-procedure-144832291.html

Dismembering a fetus? What the fuck is that?

How is this not circumventing Roe? Federal law trumps state....I don't get it. It completely spits in the face of Roe.

This cannot stand....it will snowball.

[Smithryee]

1. Expect a injunction installed tomorrow

and declare Brownback "Fucknut".

[one_voice]

2. Good lord I hope so...

I will have to hop on a plane and start protesting. They'll probably throw me in jail for cursing too much or some such nonsense consistent with not being non lady like.

[PeaceNikki]

3. Nice job keeping the government out of our personal lives, assholes.

Oh wait, that doesn't apply to women.

Fucking hypocrites.

[Dont call me Shirley]

4. The Brownback Clan of Women-Haters

[niyad]

5. but. . .but. . there is NO war on women!!

the groups are "considering"????????????? challenging the law in court? why the HELL don't they have the lawyers lined up?? it isn't as though this came as a surprise.

[Behind the Aegis]

6. Oklahoma just did the same.

I said in another thread before reading about OK, this bill would be the "canary in the coalmine" for other states. They will sit and watch how KS and, now, OK, go and will proceed with their own anti-choice bills.