Kansas Supreme Court affirms abortion rights, strikes down restrictions

Reproductive rights defenders on Friday cheered a pair of Kansas decisions reaffirming the right to abortion and striking down various restrictions—rulings expected to impact people beyond the Midwestern state, given how many patients must now travel for care. "The state devoted much of its brief to inviting us to reverse our earlier ruling in this case that the Kansas Constitution protects a right to abortion. We decline the invitation," Justice Eric Rosen in the decision against Senate Bill 95, which outlawed a common abortion procedure for second-trimester pregnancies called (D&E)....