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KS HB2010

Bill

Status

Introduced

1/15/2025

Primary Sponsor

Brett Fairchild

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Origin

House of Representatives

2025-2026 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Creates two new severity level 1 person felonies: "unlawful performance of an abortion" (knowingly performing an abortion at any gestational age) and "unlawful destruction of a fertilized embryo" (destroying fertilized embryos during artificial insemination)

  • Defines "unborn child" as beginning at fertilization and extends equal protection under Kansas law to unborn children at every stage of development from fertilization to birth

  • Provides exceptions only for procedures intended to save the life or preserve the health of an unborn child, or to remove a dead unborn child following spontaneous miscarriage, stillbirth, or ectopic pregnancy

  • Declares any federal statute, regulation, treaty, order, or court decision purporting to override the act as void, and subjects Kansas judges who enjoin or stay provisions of the act to impeachment

  • Removes sales and use tax exemptions for abortion providers, excludes abortion-related expenditures from research and development tax credits, and repeals numerous existing Kansas statutes regulating abortion procedures

Legislative Description

Prohibiting abortion procedures and creating the crimes of unlawful performance of an abortion and unlawful destruction of a fertilized embryo.

Last Action

House Withdrawn from Committee on Health and Human Services; Referred to Committee on Interstate Cooperation

3/13/2026

Committee Referrals

Interstate Cooperation3/13/2026
Health and Human Services3/5/2026
Interstate Cooperation3/4/2026
Health and Human Services2/19/2026
Interstate Cooperation2/6/2026
Health and Human Services1/28/2026
Interstate Cooperation3/10/2025
Health and Human Services2/27/2025
Interstate Cooperation2/18/2025
Health and Human Services1/15/2025

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