Bleeding Kansas

National | Pro-lifers say the state is not enforcing its law against post-viability abortion | Lynn Vincent

Former Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline.

Pro-lifers in Kansas want to know: Which part of "no person" does late-term abortionist George Tiller not understand?

Last week an interim committee continued its hearings in the Kansas legislature on statute 65-6703, which states that "no person shall perform or induce an abortion when the fetus is viable"—unless that person is a doctor and has a documented referral from a second doctor who is not "legally or financially affiliated" with the abortion-performing doctor. Both physicians must determine that the abortion is necessary to save the mother's life, or that continuing the pregnancy will cause "a substantial and irreversible impairment of a major bodily function of the pregnant woman."

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