Posted on 06/30/2015 10:50:15 AM PDT by Morgana
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A judge's decision to block Kansas from banning a common second-trimester abortion procedure eventually could reshape the state's legal climate and intensify conservative Republicans' push to change how the highest court is selected.
The law prohibiting a procedure that critics describe as dismembering a fetus likely creates too big an obstacle for women seeking abortions, Shawnee County District Court Judge Larry Hendricks ruled last week, an order that'll remain in effect until he reviews a lawsuit filed by an abortion rights group.
He also declared that the Kansas Constitution creates a right to an abortion that is at least as strong as what the U.S. Constitution provides — a specific finding that the state's highest court has not made previously. Attorneys say that if his finding is upheld, Kansas courts eventually could join a handful of other states in protecting abortion rights more than the U.S. Supreme Court, which could jeopardize restrictions in Kansas that the nation's highest court has upheld in other states in the past such as special rules for providers or limits on late-term procedures.
That has the most influential anti-abortion group at the Statehouse, Kansans for Life, redoubling efforts to overhaul how vacancies on the Kansas Supreme Court are filled. Already, Gov. Sam Brownback and other GOP conservatives have pushed to overhaul the selection process.
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Why aren’t Catholic judges at every level who rule in favor of abortion excommunicated? The Church is no longer the defender of Christianity.
Our Supreme Court is a mess. Publicity seeking nitwits. Currently, the KS Bar Ass’n picks three candidate and Governor expected to select one of these. Widely spread story was that when someone asked former Gov Graves why he kept appointing liberal losers, he said “Those are the only names they send me!” Results are predictable.
Good Grief!
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