A strongly supported bi-partisan Kansas state law prohibiting live dismemberment abortions was challenged as unconstitutional by the abortion industry in 2015. The Kansas State Supreme Court agreed in their infamous Hodes v. Nauser ruling, issued on April 19, 2019. Not only did that ruling allow live dismemberment abortions to proceed, but it also went much further …
Fairness in Women’s Sports Act SUCCESSUL VETO OVERRIDE The Senate voted 28-12 and the House 84-40 to override the Governor’s veto of this bill that simply says, biological girls will only compete in athletic competition against other biological girls. THIS IS NOW THE LAW IN KANSAS. Women’s Bill of Rights: SUCCESSFUL VETO OVERRIDE The Senate …
BORN ALIVE INFANT PROTECTION ACT Both the House of Representatives and the Senate debated, voted and approved the Born Alive Infant Protection Act, also known as HB 2313. The bill simply states that if a child is born alive from an attempted abortion, that child deserves proper medical care and treatment for any child …
UPDATE 3/21 – REDUCING THE FINANCIAL BURDEN OF ADOPTIONS IN KANSAS SB 147, AN ACT concerning income taxation; relating to credits; increasing the tax credit amount for adoption expenses and making the credit refundable; amending K.S.A. 79-32,202a and repealing the existing section. We know many Kansas families are willing and able to adopt a child into …
EFFORRTS TO SUPPORT WOMEN IN UNPLANNED PREGNANCIES are moving through the legislative process. HB 2135 and SB 96 are tax credit bills for pregnancy resource centers (PRCs) that passed out of committee and will soon be on the House and Senate floors for debate. The idea is to incentivize donations to these organizations so they can better …
The Kansas Catholic Conference focuses on three main areas: Life, Marriage and Families, and Religious Liberty. Here is a brief list of other bills we have been supporting and/or following. · SB 118: Expanding the duties of the secretary of health and environment when investigating maternal deaths to include promoting continuity of care, helping develop performance …
Legislation we’ve been working on in the 2023 Session. Read More »
The Kansas Catholic Conference 2019 Legislative Review If the 2019 Kansas Legislative “Veto Session” ended at 3:08 a.m. on Sunday, May 5, our next round of work at the Kansas Catholic Conference began at 3:09 a.m.! This may be a bit of an exaggeration, but not by much. The point is that our work never …
APRIL 25, 2019 Far from empowering or advancing the status of women, today’s ruling by the Kansas State Supreme Court is a grotesque caricature of emancipation. The discovery of a right to abortion in the 150-year-old Constitution promotes a merciless culture of death by belittling and trivializing the fundamental value and sacredness of each child …
Kansas Catholic Bishops Denounce State Supreme Court Ruling on Abortion Read More »
January 21, 2017 11:00 AM — Mass at the Topeka Performing Arts Center (TPAC) 12:30 PM — March from TPAC to the Capitol Building 12:45 PM — Rally for Life on the south steps of the Capitol
June 30, 2016 Kansas Bishops’ Statement on the Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt Decision Monday, the United States Supreme Court struck down a Texas law that required abortion providers to have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital and to meet the same health and safety standards as other ambulatory surgical centers. Forty-three years after Roe v. Wade, the …
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