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KS HB2171
Bill
Status
1/30/2025
Primary Sponsor
Samantha Poetter Parshall
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AI Summary
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Defines "unborn child" as a living human organism from fertilization to birth, making abortion subject to criminal prosecution under existing homicide and assault statutes (K.S.A. 21-5401 through 21-5406, 21-5413)
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Removes current exceptions that protect medical procedures performed by physicians at the request of pregnant women, replacing them with narrow exceptions only for life-saving procedures on pregnant women (with reasonable steps to save the unborn child) and spontaneous miscarriages
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Provides a duress defense for mothers charged with murder or voluntary manslaughter of an unborn child if the mother was threatened with imminent death or great bodily harm
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Removes exceptions for abortion from wrongful death civil actions, allowing lawsuits for deaths of unborn children caused by abortion
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Applies prospectively only to conduct committed on or after July 1, 2025
Legislative Description
Creating the abolish abortion Kansas act to make all abortions subject to criminal prosecution for violation of Alexa's law and to remove certain exceptions to the cause of action for the wrongful death of an unborn child when such death is caused by an abortion.
Last Action
House Withdrawn from Committee on Interstate Cooperation; Rereferred to Committee on Health and Human Services
3/10/2025