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Right to abortion protected by Kansas Constitution, state Supreme Court rules
The Wichita Eagle ^ | April 26, 2019 | Jonathan Shorman and Lara Korte

Posted on 04/26/2019 9:51:52 AM PDT by Coronal

Kansas women have the right to end a pregnancy, the state Supreme Court ruled in a decision that sets up a bitter fight among lawmakers over abortion.

While abortion has been legal for decades under the U.S. Constitution, the court found Friday that the Kansas Constitution also protects the right to an abortion.

“Today we hold our Kansas Constitution’s drafters’ and ratifiers’ proclamation of natural rights applies to pregnant women. This proclamation protects the right to decide whether to continue a pregnancy,” the justices said in the court’s majority opinion.

Six of the seven justices found the state constitution protects the right to an abortion. Only Justice Caleb Stegall dissented.

(Excerpt) Read more at kansas.com ...


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1 posted on 04/26/2019 9:51:52 AM PDT by Coronal
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To: Coronal

Seems that everyone who supports abortion is already born...


2 posted on 04/26/2019 9:54:48 AM PDT by graciebraswell
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To: Coronal

What has happened to Kansas?


3 posted on 04/26/2019 9:56:24 AM PDT by Mr Rogers (Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools)
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To: Mr Rogers

Lawyers.


4 posted on 04/26/2019 9:59:04 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: Coronal
While abortion has been legal for decades under the U.S. Constitution, the court found Friday that the Kansas Constitution also protects the right to an abortion.

The Kansas Constitution protects the right of a woman to kill her baby? I thought that murder was against the law?

How did the silver-tongued servants of satan pull that off?

5 posted on 04/26/2019 10:01:25 AM PDT by olezip
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To: Mr Rogers
What has happened to Kansas?

My question for quite a while.

Being in the heartland and historically very conservative, my guess is that the left has concentrated its efforts on infecting Kansas at all costs, to make an example of them.

They did the same to conservative Utah first, in the fallacious district court order to redefine marriage there soon after Windsor was decided (the first state to fall by federal court order.) Hitting conservative centers first gives the left orgasms.

6 posted on 04/26/2019 10:02:42 AM PDT by fwdude (Think about it: Blacks were made slaves in Africa, but were made free men in America.)
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To: Mr Rogers
What has happened to Kansas?

Kansas went "Bye Bye"

7 posted on 04/26/2019 10:03:10 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Mr Rogers
What has happened to Kansas?

I guess they have become a Wayward Son.

8 posted on 04/26/2019 10:20:41 AM PDT by An.American.Expatriate (Here's my strategy on the War against Terrorism: We win, they lose. - with apologies to R.R.)
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To: olezip
"How did the silver-tongued servants of satan pull that off?

Easy. You completely ignore and suppress the scientific fact that an unborn human is a human. Without that important fact, getting an abortion is no different than getting a wart removed.

As a useful thought experiment, try bringing up that fact in discussion with a pro-abortion person. They'll keep changing the subject and never address it. Eventually, they will become very angry and start shouting or start crying. I've seen this a hundred times.

9 posted on 04/26/2019 10:22:25 AM PDT by fidelis (Zonie and USAF Cold Warrior)
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To: dfwgator

Many of these western states have a weird legal setup. Many of the laws drafted and voted on become part of a state’s constitution.


10 posted on 04/26/2019 10:22:26 AM PDT by PrairieLady2
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To: Coronal

Insanity, it is insane that judges would argue that the folks in 1861 adopted a constitution that allowed infanticide.. These people need strung up.


11 posted on 04/26/2019 10:22:36 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: Mr Rogers
What has happened to Kansas?

You answered the question in your own tagline:

Thinking themselves wise, they have become fools.

12 posted on 04/26/2019 10:31:39 AM PDT by CommerceComet (Hillary: A unique blend of arrogance, incompetence, and corruption.)
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To: Coronal

“Today we hold our Kansas Constitution’s drafters’ and ratifiers’ proclamation of natural rights Does NOT Apply to Babies. This proclamation protects the right to decide whether to continue a pregnancy,”


13 posted on 04/26/2019 10:40:51 AM PDT by eyeamok
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To: Coronal

The article references section 1 of the Kansas Constitution bill of rights as providing the ‘right’ to abortion. I must be missing something.

§ 1.Equal rights. All men are possessed of equal and inalienable natural rights, among which are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

https://www.kssos.org/other/pubs/KS_Constitution.pdf


14 posted on 04/26/2019 10:46:58 AM PDT by posterchild
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To: Mr Rogers
What has happened to Kansas?

Seriously. To steal a quote from a famous Liberal, what the %#@& is the matter with Kansas?


15 posted on 04/26/2019 11:03:01 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Coronal

Judges such as this should be subjected to the public revulsion they have so fully earned. Spit on the sidewalk as they pass. Hold their household up to the shame they have earned. Pass resolutions of contempt for their murderous disservice.


16 posted on 04/26/2019 11:19:13 AM PDT by KC Burke (If all the world is a stage, I would like to request my lighting be adjusted.)
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To: Coronal

six of the seven justices (discovered) the right to an abortion in the Kansas constitution.........


17 posted on 04/26/2019 11:48:12 AM PDT by Midwesterner53
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To: Coronal

“Today we hold our Kansas Constitution’s drafters’ and ratifiers’ proclamation of natural rights applies to pregnant women.”

But not to unborn children!


18 posted on 04/26/2019 11:48:44 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Coronal

It is a broad reading of the Constitution of Kansas and its very non-detailed definition of “natural rights” that preceded the Kansas Constitution and of which the Kansas Constitution says cannot be denied.

On the other hand, a similar broad reading of the non-detailed definition of “natural rights” the Kansas Constitution declares must be upheld COULD find the child in the womb was in effect a “Kansan” and deserving of their “natural rights” as well.

A lot of the dychotomy of the two persons is one side defends the woman with a “right to control her own body”, which is fine to an extent, but denies the other side, which recognizes their is another human body involved, the immature human in the womb.

The debate always centers around denying or trying to reconcile which “body” as a greater right to consideration; or put differently - the interests of which “body” must be compromised for the sake of the other “body”.

We who support the life in the womb believe that pregnancy itself has already made that choice, that the mother’s manner of living will be comprised, and is a compromise, for the sake of the child. We believe the “different” choice open to the mother was to not conceive the child in the first place; to not enter into coitus with a man unless she was prepared to make compromises for the sake of a child in her womb; but once THAT choice - to prevent the pregnancy - was not applied, then killing what she could have preventing in the first place is just that - killing a life she could have prevented in the first place, if she had chosen to. She chose to allow for the child’s conception. Now it is not just her “body” that is the only issue.


19 posted on 04/26/2019 12:05:12 PM PDT by Wuli
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Sam Brownback was only able to appoint one S.C. Justice and that Justice was the only dissenter to this atrocious decision.

The ‘RAT Kathleen Sibelius appointed four of the 6 judges who reached this decision. Two of those four must stand in the 2020 retention election. In 2020 vote those two monsters out of office. And in 2022 vote the remaining four monsters out when they must stand for retention.


20 posted on 04/26/2019 12:51:21 PM PDT by House Atreides (Boycott the NFL 100% — PERMANENTLY)
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