Judge Blocks Kansas' Ban on 2nd-Trimester Abortion Procedure

[Novara]

Judge Blocks Kansas' Ban on 2nd-Trimester Abortion Procedure

A Kansas judge on Thursday blocked the state's first-in-the-nation ban on an abortion procedure that opponents refer to as "dismemberment abortion."

The decision from Shawnee County District Court Judge Larry Hendricks came in a lawsuit filed from the New York-based Center for Reproductive Rights. The center represents two Kansas abortion providers and argued the law would force women to undergo riskier procedures or forgo abortions.

The judge's order will stay in effect while he considers the lawsuit further. The new law was supposed to take effect July 1.

It bans a second-trimester procedure that anti-abortion activists call "dismemberment abortion" and was model legislation from the National Right to Life Committee. Kansas was the first state to enact it.

Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/kansas-judge-weighs-nations-1st-ban-abortion-method-32013638

[randys1]

1. Good, and do we need to form a group who goes from clinic to clinic to help

Women maintain access to clinics?

While the American Taliban, aka TEAPARTY are actively at work trying to kill Women, I wonder what we could be doing.

Getting places is the hard part

[passnobuck]

2. Good for the court! n/t

Why do so many conservative politicians think they have a right to decide how medicine is practiced ?

[Novara]

3. only where women are concerned