Kansas Anti-Abortion Bill Veto Sticks

[Shallah Kali]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050429/ap_on_re_us/abortion_clinics

Anti-abortion lawmakers failed Thursday to override Gov. Kathleen Sebelius' veto of a bill imposing additional regulations on clinics that perform abortions.

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"It's the kind of vote that's going to come back and haunt legislators who voted against it and the governor," said Mary Kay Culp, executive director of Kansans for Life. "The people of Kansas understand the need for this."

The bill would have required clinics to obtain an annual license from the Department of Health and Environment, hire surgeons as their medical directors and report patient deaths to the state within the day. It also would have required state standards for equipment, medical screenings, ventilation and lighting.

Peter Brownlie, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri, said the bill's "only purpose is to make access to reproductive health care in Kansas difficult."

Older article on the veto:
Kan. Governor Vetoes Abortion Clinic Rules
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050416/ap_on_re_us/abortion_clinics_1

The measure would require abortion clinics to obtain an annual license from the Department of Health and Environment, hire surgeons as their medical directors and report patient deaths to the state within a day. It also would have the state set standards for equipment, medical screenings, ventilation and lighting

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Sebelius, a Democrat, vetoed a similar bill in 2003, saying such matters should be left to medical professionals, not legislators. She made the same argument Friday.

She also noted that she had said repeatedly she would sign a measure that applied not only to abortion but all surgeries performed under anesthesia in doctor's offices and clinics.

"Once again in 2005, the Legislature has chosen pure politics over good policy, has rejected uniform standards for all procedures and has instead chosen to regulate only one procedure — abortion," Sebelius said.

The anti-choice people here do not care about everyone getting quality healthcare. It is all about fetuses. After you are born they don't care.

[DBoon]

Proven by this

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1431750

[Erika]

1. The Heartland and the South should be renamed

the U.S. Taliban. They want women to have no rights. This is not going undetected.

[Hollowkatt]

2. Actualy this IS going undetected,

all because the people in the AmeriTaliban think it's right.

[Erika]

3. No, because we in nontaliban states tell them we're

not going to spend one cent there. The one thing I've noticed about the red states is that their number one concern is the $.

Their are a heck of a lot of us here who won't give them one cent in tourist dollars.

[sam sarrha]

4. to make it stick hospitals would have to also comply,thats why it failed

no doubt.. the medical loby.. your insurance dollars at work..