Kansas healthcare providers must provide the same level of care for newborns delivered during certain abortion procedures. The Kansas Legislature yesterday overrode Governor Laura Kelly's veto of the new legislation. Abortion providers say the new law will sow confusion and fear about abortion, and say the cases covered by the new law rarely, if ever, occur in Kansas because of how the state already regulates abortion. Local State Representative Ron Bryce says he's seen this plenty as a physician.
Violating the law will be a felony, punishable by up to a year's probation for a first-time offender. The new law takes effect July 1st.
