TOPEKA, Kan. — Pro-life advocates in Kansas gained passage of two important bills in hopes of advancing them to new pro-life Republican Gov. Sam Brownback for his signature.
The House voted 91–30 on Feb. 24 for a bill that would prohibit abortions after 22 weeks gestation because of the unborn baby’s apparent ability to feel pain at that stage. Representatives also approved in a 96–25 roll call a measure that includes provisions requiring parental consent for a minor’s abortion, reforming judicial bypass procedures and barring abortion fraud.
“We are ecstatic that the House has acted to pass these bills, which will ensure that the abortion reporting fraud of the past decade is never repeated, will eliminate any rubber-stamp judicial approval of abortion for pregnant teens and will bring updated medical evidence to bear in treating abortion as a barbaric, unacceptable act,” said Kathy Ostrowski, legislative director of Kansans for Life.
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