Judge to consider blocking Kansas ban on abortion method
Source: Associated Press
Judge to consider blocking Kansas ban on abortion method
By JOHN HANNA, AP Political Writer | June 24, 2015 | Updated: June 24, 2015 2:19pm
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — An abortion rights group is asking a Kansas judge to block the state's first-in-the-nation ban on what it says is the most common method for terminating second-trimester pregnancies, contending that the new law would force women to either accept higher medical risks or forgo abortions.
But the state's lawyers were expected to argue Thursday in Shawnee County District Court that abortion providers have safe alternatives to the procedure, which anti-abortion activists describe as dismembering a fetus. District Judge Larry Hendricks' hearing in a lawsuit filed by the Center for Reproductive Rights comes just five days before the ban takes effect, and the group is asking him to block it at least until its lawsuit is heard.
The National Right to Life Committee drafted the ban as model legislation for states. Kansas was the first to enact it, though Oklahoma followed with a statute set to take effect in November. The center's lawsuit said the ban applies to a procedure used in 95 percent of second trimester abortions nationally.
"It's among the most extreme restrictions that we've seen," said Janet Crepps, a senior counsel for the Center for Reproductive Rights. "It's a ban on the most common method in the second trimester."
Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/us/article/Judge-to-consider-blocking-Kansas-ban-on-abortion-6346982.php
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of you , let me know, I will be here waiting to find out where you want to go and what you want to do as in protest, etc.
You see almost everything I rail against is an action taken against someone who is NOT a white/str8t/male, like myself.
I find it OUTRAGEOUS that these things happen to Women, that Black people are killed etc.
OUTRAGEOUS
I would think if someone was, for instance, willing to fight and DIE in a war to make sure Saddam doesnt show up under your bed one night, you sure AS FUCK would be willing to fight and die for this shit!!!
