This Is What’s The Matter With Kansas
Whenever you hear pro-choice liberals talk about returning abortion to the states, think of two things. One, why do women get less reproductive freedom depending on where they live and two, if pro-lifers really think abortion is murder, will they stop caring about the issue until abortion is illegal everywhere? The inevitable decline in reproductive freedom greeting a return of abortion to the states is already being presaged in Kansas.
Cara, blogmistress of The Curvature, notes that Kansas has a ridiculous law for late term abortions – it mandates that two doctors, who aren’t involved with the doctor providing the procedure, sign off on any late term abortion. It’s worth noting that Kansas requires this oversight for no other medical procedure. To say that this an absurd burden to place on already burdened women – most late term abortion are due to extreme risks to the woman’s health or severe fetal deformities – doesn’t really capture how inane this law is.
Dr. George Tiller, who is one of the few late term abortion providers in the country, is being prosecuted for having a financial relationship with one of the doctors he got to sign off on one of the abortions he performed. This is what happens when you an impotent pro-choice movement and Democratic party that is all too happy to sacrifice those who need abortions the most (the poor and those who require emergency late-term ones) for those who need them the least (the rich, who can get them early).
