Kansas Has Banned the Safest, Most Common Kind of Second-Trimester Abortion

[niyad]

Kansas Has Banned the Safest, Most Common Kind of Second-Trimester Abortion


Kansas Governor Sam Brownback (R), who is openly anti-abortion, just signed into law a bill that makes Kansas the first state to ban most second-trimester abortions.




SB95, which was drafted by the National Right to Life Committee, will take effect July 1. The bill outlaws a “dismemberment” abortion, which essentially bans any dilation and evacuation procedure; this procedure is used in most second-trimester abortions and in about 9 percent of all abortions performed in Kansas. Pro-choice advocates are not sure if they will challenge the law in court, and are unsure how much of an impact the bill could have because its language is not clear.

“We’ve never seen this language before,” said Elizabeth Nash, senior state issues associate for the Guttmacher Institute. “It’s not medical language, so it’s a little bit difficult to figure out what the language would do.” Opponents of the bill also say the graphic language used in SB95 is sensational, is not medical, and is used to gain supporters.




The dilate-and-evacuate method is the safest for second-trimester abortions, according to many professionals. Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri President Laura McQuade says the procedure is “considered the safest across the board for women’s health.” “This legislation could force physicians to provide substandard care to their patients,” McQuade said in a statement. “The bill not only fails to improve women’s health and safety but puts them in harm’s way by denying doctors the ability to provide the safest care available for their patients based on their individual medical circumstances.”

SB95 is part of a large ongoing push to outlaw abortion. In the first three months of 2015 alone, nine abortion restrictions have been enacted and 53 abortion restrictions have been approved by one legislative chamber or more. It also isn’t the first anti-abortion restriction Gov. Brownback has signed. He told lawmakers to create a “culture of life” when he took office in 2011.

http://feminist.org/blog/index.php/2015/04/08/kansas-just-banned-the-safest-most-common-kind-of-second-trimester-abortion/

[handmade34]

1. ...

[niyad]

2. isn't that the truth!!

[Agschmid]

3. Kick.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

4. sad to see those women there...

.....

Women like that are the first to sneer and say, "she shoulda kept her legs closed."

[beam me up scottie]

5. Look at them grinning.

Like they just did a good thing.

Horrifying for the women of Kansas and I'm afraid the NRTL is going to see that this is done in other states.

[Behind the Aegis]

6. I wish they would stop calling it "anti-abortion" and call it what it really is....

...anti-CHOICE!

Just like the Indiana bill against the GLBT, this is the 'canary in the coalmine' bill for others to watch and introduce in other states.

[niyad]

7. it is more than just anti-choice, it is WOMAN-HATING, PRo-FORCED BIRTH INSANITY.