The Latest: Abortion rights backers hail Kansas court ruling

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

The Latest: Abortion rights backers hail Kansas court ruling

Updated 12:22 pm, Friday, January 22, 2016

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12:15 p.m.

A national abortion-rights group says the Kansas Court of Appeals has issued a groundbreaking ruling in blocking enforcement of a ban on a common second-trimester abortion procedure.

The New York-based Center for Reproductive Rights noted that the Friday decision was the first time an appellate court in the conservative state said the Kansas Constitution protects abortion rights independently of the U.S. Constitution.

The decision was 7-7, allowing a trial-court judge's injunction against the 2015 law to stand.

Other abortion rights advocates also hailed the decision. Julie Burkhart, founder of the group Trust Women and the South Wind Women's Center, says she's elated.

Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/us/article/The-Latest-Kansas-ban-on-abortion-method-remains-6776912.php

[elljay]

1. Can they amend the State Constitution?

I've not read the actual decision, but wouldn't they be able to amend the state Constitution to eliminate this protection? I assume they have more than enough of a Republican majority in their state government to do so. I am not yet convinced that this is anything more than a slight bump in the road for the antiabortion crowd.

[lastlib]

2. I would bet on this being overturned on appeal.....

The state Supreme Court is packed with Brownback's lackeys.