TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) – The latest on Kansas’ first-in-the nation ban on a procedure that anti-abortion activists call “dismemberment abortion.” (All times local):
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An anti-abortion leader in Kansas says a judge’s decision to block a new abortion law has renewed her group’s interest in changing how justices are selected to the Kansas Supreme Court.
A county judge on Thursday temporarily blocked a law that bans a common second-trimester abortion procedure that critics call dismembering a fetus. The case will likely get to the Kansas Supreme Court.