Doctor challenges Kan. abortion law

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Doctor challenges Kan. abortion law

By JOHN HANNA, Associated Press Writer
40 minutes ago

TOPEKA, Kan. - Hoping to end a criminal case against him,
a high-profile abortion provider filed a legal challenge
Monday to the constitutionality of part of a Kansas law
restricting late-term procedures.

Dr. George Tiller, one of the few U.S. physicians performing
late-term abortions, faces 19 misdemeanor charges in
Sedgwick County District Court.

Attorney General Paul Morrison alleges that the Wichita doctor
broke the law by consulting in 2003 on late-term procedures
with a physician who had business ties to him. A 1998 law
requires two doctors to sign off on some late-term procedures
and says those physicians cannot have financial or legal links.

Tiller's attorneys filed a motion Monday to dismiss the charges,
arguing that the requirement is unconstitutional. They say it
is vague, places an undue burden on a physician's right to
practice medicine and violates a woman's right to obtain an
abortion as outlined in court decisions.

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