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KS SB174
Bill
Status
2/4/2025
Primary Sponsor
Public Health and Welfare
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AI Summary
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Defines "unborn child" as a living human organism from fertilization to birth and extends criminal homicide statutes (murder, manslaughter, battery) to apply to unborn children at any gestational stage
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Removes existing exceptions that protected medical procedures, physician-performed abortions, and lawfully prescribed medications from criminal prosecution under Alexa's law
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Narrows permitted exceptions to only life-saving procedures on pregnant women (with reasonable steps to save the unborn child) and spontaneous miscarriages
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Creates a duress defense for pregnant mothers charged with murder or voluntary manslaughter of their unborn child if they faced imminent threat of death or great bodily harm
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Removes wrongful death lawsuit exceptions for legal abortions, allowing civil liability for abortion-related deaths of unborn children, effective July 1, 2025
Legislative Description
Enacting 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
Senate Referred to Committee on Public Health and Welfare
2/5/2025