Abortion rights backers hail Kansas court ruling

Schmidt said he’s always anticipated that the Kansas Supreme Court will have to decide the issue. “The GOP’s ideological war on women has systemically restricted women’s rights to make the healthcare decisions that are best for them and their families”, Democratic Congresswoman Barbara Lee said in a press release marking the anniversary of Roe v. Wade.

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.

The Center for Reproductive Rights challenged the Kansas measure in June on behalf of Herbert C. Hodes and Traci Lynn Nauser, two board-certified physicians with 40 years of combined experience in comprehensive women’s health care, including abortion.

Explaining why those concerned about women’s issues should join the effort to protect unborn life, the mission statement asserted that “life is the empowering choice for women”.

In granting the temporary injunction, the district court ruled, for the first time in a Kansas court, that the Kansas Constitution provides a right to an abortion independent of the right found in the United States Constitution.

Even if there were such a right, the U.S. Supreme Court has said that a state may prohibit a particular abortion procedure when reasonable alternatives were available, the lawyers said. As NPR reported last summer, the law, with few exceptions, would ban what physicians call a “dilation and evacuation” or “D&E” abortion, the primary method for second-trimester abortions in the U.S.

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

The Kansas Court of Appeals split 7-7 on a ruling over a so-called “dismemberment abortion” ban.

“We have 60 million Americans killed by our own people”, said Karl Menvel, a truck driver at the march, referring to abortion. Whole Women’s Health v. Cole addresses provisions in a Texas law that would restrict access to abortion there.

David Gittrich of Kansans for Life said his group will work to oust Kansas Court of Appeals judges in elections later this year.

The case was filed by a woman named Norma McCorvey, who was referred to as “Jane Roe” in the case.

MASON CITY | As a light snow dotted the landscape around them, about 20 people gathered in a circle on the steps of St. Joseph’s Catholic Church Friday on the 43rd anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision.

“How much worse can you get?” said David Gittrich, a leader with Kansans for Life.

“If we can fit in all the other human rights with being pro-life, then I’d say that would be a good candidate”, Keller said.

Republican presidential hopeful Carly Fiorina declared that pro-choice Feminists are attempting to shut down debate over the issue of abortion.

If elected president, Fiorina vowed to defund Planned Parenthood and divert the funds toward women’s health centers and pregnancy clinics that do not perform abortions.

The judges were divided over whether the right to an abortion is protected under the Kansas Constitution. The rate of 13.2 abortions per 1,000 women ages 15-44 was 18 percent lower in 2012 compared with 2003, CDC reported. “Our state legislature, not an intermediate court of appeals, is the branch of government charged with the development of public policy”.