(Syndicated to Kansas newspapers Nov. 2, 2015)
Now let’s see: There are single-issue voters, and there is the Kansas Court of Appeals.
Where do the twain meet?
Possibly on Dec. 9, when the Kansas Court of Appeals sits en banc (a fancy term for all 14 of them together, rather than in the usual three-judge panels scattered around the state) to hear the case challenging a new abortion law.
The law prohibits a relatively rare second-trimester abortion procedure which anti-abortion activists politically cleverly named the “Unborn Child Protection from Dismemberment Abortion Act.”
Now, the procedure isn’t used often, and it increases the chances that after an abortion, a woman retains a higher probability of planned pregnancy.