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Insurance-Related Life Bills Advance Out of House Committee

March 18, 2011 Two Pro-Life bills were merged into another separate bill and passed out of the House Insurance Committee this week.  HB 2292 would prevent private insurance providers from covering most abortions under basic health care plans.  HB 2293 would prevent state employees from being able to pay for abortions with their “pre-tax” health care flexible spending accounts.  …

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Kansas Catholic Conference Testifies on Clinic Licensure Bill

March 12, 2011 The Kansas House Federal and State Affairs Committee held hearings Wednesday on Thursday on legislation that would provide for state regulation and inspection of abortion clinics.  The virtually unregulated nature of abortion clinics has again come into the public spotlight following the horrifying revelations of a Pennsylvania abortion mill where fully born babies were …

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Bill Regulating Sexually Oriented Businesses Moves Forward

March 24, 2010 The Kansas House passed legislation today regulating sexually oriented businesses: “adult” bookstores, video stores, arcades, nightclubs, theaters, etc. Currently, small towns in Kansas are left to fend for themselves when a sexually oriented business decides to move in and set up shop wherever and however they like.  If these towns attempt to …

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Church Hit Hard by DC Same-Sex Marriage Law

March 9, 2010 The Catholic Church in Washington has been hit hard by the D.C. Council’s decision to legalize same-sex marriage in the the nation’s capital city.  In order to be in compliance with the new law, which failed to provide satisfactory religious exemptions for the Catholic Church, the Catholic Archdiocese of Washington had to …

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