For the fifth year in a row, the governor’s desk will be hit with a mandate for KDHE (the health department) to obey the abortion reporting law. HB 2115 passed in the Senate 24-15 and in the House by a vote of 83-36.
Given the fact that similar measures to fix KDHE reporting were vetoed by Gov. Sebelius, every year from 2006 through 2009, HB 2115 may also be vetoed by Gov. Parkinson.
Pro-choice senators who registered their annual complaint about “misuse of legislative process,” couldn’t care less about the nearly 3000 babies wrongfully and criminally terminated through the “misuse of the abortion reporting process.”
In 1998, Kansas passed a law protecting viable unborn children from being aborted in the second half of pregnancy. The only legal exceptions are for pregnancies that endanger the mother’s life and those that 2 physicians agree would damage the mother substantially and irreversibly.
- Any abortion done as an exception to the law was to have been recorded with a maternal medical reason to KDHE.
- For over 12 years, KDHE processed 2,945 viable abortions (see chart), without any semblance of a medical reason.
- At an average cost of $5000 each– these fraudulently documented abortions yielded $15 million!
During special House & Senate joint hearings (more…)