A Kansas state senator introduced SB 65, a bill that would authorize cities and counties to enact local laws to regulate abortion as stringent or more stringent than state law. Kansas State Sen. Chase Blasi moved to try and create the path for local abortion ordinances earlier this month.
In Kansas, abortion is legal until 22 weeks. In 2019, the state Supreme Court ruled that there is a right to abortion in the Constitution. Additionally, in 2022, Kansans rejected a ballot measure that would’ve allowed the legislature to restrict or ban abortion.
Straight Arrow News has been following the effort to pass abortion ordinances at the local level in several states. The movement is called “Sanctuary Cities for the Unborn.”
