Posted on 08/05/2026 9:02:14 AM PDT by Morgana
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A Johnson County, Kansas, judge has issued an order that permanently blocks the state from enforcing certain abortion restrictions.
In his opinion issued on Monday, Judge K. Christopher Jayaram – who was recently appointed to the Kansas Supreme Court – said the proposed restrictions violate a woman’s right to bodily autonomy, as guaranteed by the Kansas Constitution’s Bill of Rights:
Because a woman’s right to bodily autonomy (including her right to decide whether to terminate or to continue a pregnancy) is fundamental, the Court concludes, given the overwhelming evidence adduced at trial, that the State’s rationale and legislative schemes…simply do not, in significant part, survive constitutional scrutiny under Section 1 of the Kansas Constitution Bill of Rights.
The court used a “strict scrutiny” standard with this case, and the judge said the defendants “simply failed…to justify such intrusive legislative mandates.”
Judge Jayaram said it wasn’t even a close call. Therefore, the state of Kansas cannot enforce the following abortion restrictions:
* Requiring patients to provide a reason why they are seeking an abortion
* Waiting periods under the Woman’s Right to Know Act, including the 24-hour waiting period and the additional 30-minute waiting period after the in-person consultation before an abortion is performed
* State-mandated disclosure at least 24 hours prior to an abortion detailing the risks related to the abortion method and the gestational age of the fetus, among other things
* Disclosure that it “may be possible” to reverse a medication abortion
When it comes to abortion pill reversal (APR), Judge Jayaram said, “APR theory is just that: an untested and experimental idea with no legitimate grounding in existing, validated, peer-reviewed scientific processes or mainstream medical practice.”
(Excerpt) Read more at fox4kc.com ...
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Pro-abortion fanatics win again.
When do we start impeaching these activists calling themselves judges?!
Sadly.
So is that “body autonomy “ the same as someone refusing that vax when mandated during Covid Scam ?
“When do we start impeaching these activists calling themselves judges?!”
When America has had enough
What’s with these people we put in power that live to murder children?
“Krishnan Christopher Jayaram”
Krishnan indeed. Born in Brooklyn.
Judge K. Christopher Jayaram will appear before the living God- maybe tomorrow. While quaking in terror, this murderer of infants will hear God pronounce his doom:
“Then He will also say to those on the left hand, ‘Depart from Me, you cursed, into the everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels’” Matthew 25:41
What about YOU ?? You might die in traffic while going for ice cream...
And forget about your ‘good deeds’ - those will NEVER save you
Here’s a link to the State of Kansas Bill of Rights. There is nothing in there about a guarantee of bodily autonomy.
https://ballotpedia.org/Bill_of_Rights,_Kansas_Constitution
The Bill of Rights doesn’t say freaken thing about abortion. What is going on?
“And the county judge, who held a grudge will search forevermore....”
The county judge needs to stay in traffic court.
That POS judge has quite the beak.
Okay, is he a Johnson County Judge, or is he one the Kansas Supreme Court? The article is quite ambiguous on this.
But it is just fine to let unwed mothers sue for child support without any marriage contract for government to enforce, without any law saying life begins at conception, and without any regard for male 4 th and 5th amendment rights.
Females are not held responsible for getting pregnant, but males are blamed and forced to pay damages for getting them pregnant, even though it is the female who chose to have the baby and keep the baby.
One judge has no right to decide this issue and in effect, illegally amend the Kansas Constitution to put state licensed medical doctors above the law.
The bodily autonomy argument is about using a coat hanger, but the judge just deregulated state licensed medical doctors and made pregnant females the LAW. …a corruption of the medical profession. Doctors do not have license to kill, and medical doctors are not part of a woman’s body. Rewrite laws and revoke medical licenses. Laws banning or restricting abortion are aimed at medical doctors, not pregnant females. This judge is just mired in the pile of bs that Roe versus Wade was built on.
Does that also include using cocaine? That’s body autonomy.
How about jumping off of the Golden Gate bridge. Isn’t suicide body autonomy too? Govt will try to stop you.
Another foreign judge. Not a Kansas native.
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