Kansas’ highest court on Friday struck down state laws regulating abortion providers more strictly than other health care professionals and a ban on a common second-trimester procedure, reaffirming its stance that the state constitution protects abortion access.
“We stand by our conclusion that section 1 of the Kansas Constitution Bill of Rights protects a fundamental right to personal autonomy, which includes a pregnant person’s right to terminate a pregnancy,” Justice Eric Rosen wrote for the majority in overturning the ban on a certain type of dilation and evacuation, also known as D&E.
In striking down the law on clinic regulations, the panel found that the state had failed to meet “its evidentiary burden to show the Challenged Laws further its interests in protection of maternal health and regulation of the medical profession as it relates to maternal health.”
It makes me so angry to watch conservatives cite “maternal health“ in their cases.
Then brace yourself for what is coming along with Project 2025… hard times are ahead for those who value Truth over Authority.
It blows my mind that there are people here that want you to not vote against this shit.
Some of them think that this is how the glorious revolution happens and they don’t care how many die for it, especially since they rarely think that they might be one of them.
It reminds me of post-Brexit when many British people found out they couldn’t just hop on a plane and go stay in Spain for 6 months of the year.
“We were always able to before. Why not now?”
“It will never happen to me” seems to be a big blind spot a lot of people have.