Appeals court: Kansas Constitution protects abortion rights

The injunction blocking Kansas’ first-in-the-nation ban on a common second-trimester abortion procedure remains in effect after the Kansas Court of Appeals deadlocked on the issue. In 2015, he said he thought his sister Maryanne Trump Barry, a federal appeals court judge who struck down New Jersey’s partial-birth abortion ban, would be a “phenomenal” Supreme Court justice.

Women travel from all across America for these late-second and third trimester abortions that are illegal in their home states.

On October 14, 2014, the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated the injunction in large part, allowing numerous previously closed clinics to reopen their doors while the state’s appeal moved forward.

A similar Oklahoma law also was blocked by a state-court judge, while lawmakers in Nebraska have considered similar measures.

Cecile Richards, the president of the Planned Parenthood Federation for America, fears that the number of unsafe abortions will grow as legislation continues to chip away at landmark cases such as 1973’s Roe v. Wade and 1992’s Planned Parenthood v. Casey, in which the legal right to an abortion was again upheld.

At issue is language in the Kansas Constitution’s Bill of Rights that says residents have “natural rights” and that “free governments” were created for their residents’ “equal protection and benefit”.

Kansans for Life said the ruling was “outrageous” and called on the state Supreme Court to quickly review it.

Kermit Gosnell, the Pennsylvania abortionist serving life in prison for murdering babies born alive at his West Philadelphia “House of Horrors”, is just one name on the list of abortion businesses which “pose a grave danger to the public”, says the group. These judges would set aside the temporary injunction granted by the district court.

After the rally, participants marched up Constitution Avenue to the U.S. Supreme Court.

“There’s an attitude here among Planned Parenthood that it’s a day to celebrate”, Mary Hahn Beerworth of the Vermont Right to Life Committee said of the Roe v. Wade anniversary.

When I asked Murray today what she thought it would take, considering this political climate, to overturn the Hyde Amendment, which prevents federal money from funding abortions for low-income women except in limited cases, her answer was: “In my dreams”. Pro-life organization The Center for Medical Progress launched the attack a year ago against Planned Parenthood and their alleged “black market use” of fetal tissue donations.

SHOT: A new study from the Women’s Media Center shows that men still make up the majority of voices reporting on reproductive rights, which affects the nature of coverage: “The gender of the reporter appears to affect whom they choose to quote and how they cover the story”.

Abortion foes made huge strides on both in “a pretty historic year” last year, Quigley says. Herbert Hodes and Traci Nauser, who perform abortions at their health center in the Kansas City suburb of Overland Park. The judges siding with Hendricks included six appointed by Democrats and one by a moderate Republican.