Kansas Confronts Life- Support Abortion Legal Drama

To start . . . 

The ethics on this hot mess make the "trolley problem" seem like a walk in the park.

We cobbled together a brief outline of the debate that seems like an exercise in human misery no matter who decides what . . . The only thing we know for sure is that desperate circumstances & tragedy will be exploited by "many sides" for political gain.

Check the deets . . . 

The Kansas women are requesting the court to prevent Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach and the Kansas Board of Healing Arts from enforcing the law . . .

Two doctors are also suing, alleging that the law exposes them to legal and ethical liabilities because it does not provide guidance on how to treat incapacitated, terminally-ill patients who are pregnant . . .

The lawsuit comes as concern grows over a decision by Georgia doctors to keep a brain-dead pregnant woman on life support for more than three months because of a state law that prohibits abortion after around six weeks.

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . .

A Kansas law invalidates life-support wishes during pregnancy. 5 women are suing to block it

A group of Kansas women say the "pregnancy exclusion" in the state's Natural Death Act violates the Kansas Constitution.

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