Good News In Kansas: Supreme Court Rejects 2 Anti-Abortion Laws
The Supreme Court in Kansas did what we'll sadly never see from the religious zealots in the majority on the Roberts' court.
A little bit of good news in what's been a crazy and tiring week: Kansas’ top court bolsters a state right to abortion and strikes down 2 anti-abortion laws :
Kansas’ highest court strongly reaffirmed Friday that the state constitution protects abortion access, striking down a ban on a common second-trimester procedure and laws regulating abortion providers more strictly than other health care providers.
The pair of 5-1 decisions suggests that other restrictions — even ones decades on the books — might not withstand legal challenges. The court’s dissenting justice, widely seen as its most conservative, warned that Kansas is headed toward “a legal regime of unrestricted access to abortion.”
“This is an immense victory for the health, safety, and dignity of people in Kansas and the entire Midwestern region, where millions have been cut off from abortion access,” said Nancy Northup, president and CEO of the Center for Reproductive Rights, which represented the abortion providers challenging the two laws.