State news and more state news. Kansas and Ohio are trying to ban abortion without outright banning it, and Texas and Wisconsin join the growing list of states that are defunding family planning.
Late yesterday, U.S. District Judge Carlos Murguia temporarily blocked the state of Kansas from enforcing new regulations created under the guise of "protecting women," but in fact aimed at shutting clinics and medical offices providing abortion care.
In imposing new and medically unnecessary regulations on providers of abortion care, Kansas lawmakers claim they are just interested in "protecting the health of women." Instead, what they are doing is ensuring more women face greater health risks.
A federal court this evening blocked implementation of South Dakota H.B. 1217, the law passed earlier this year that would require a woman seeking an abortion to wait at least 72 hours after first meeting her doctor before having the procedure, and to visit a "crisis pregnancy center" for a lecture based on ideology, not medical or scientific evidence.
You know how abortion is related to automobile production and the United States balance of trade with South Korea? I don't either. But apparently Senator Orrin Hatch does.
