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We believe that each person was created in the image of God, each with a divine purpose.

We cannot separate moral, scientific and logical truth from our actions

if we are to succeed.  The truth is the truth.  It cannot be ignored or

denied.  For this reason, the pro-life movement, by our statements that

life begins at conception and ends at natural death, will succeed.

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- 2008 LEGISLATIVE REPORT -

     The 2008 legislative session closed with no increase in protection for mothers and unborn children.  Even if the Governor had signed the Comprehensive Abortion Reform Act, very little, if anything, would have improved.  This is so because Kansas abortion law is patterned after a Pennsylvania law that was ruled constitutional only after the Casey Court determined that the law would not interfere with the procurement of abortions!  Additionally, Kansas law deviates from the wording of the Pennsylvania law such that the Kansas law might well be declared an unconstitutional attempt to impede abortions.  Meanwhile, the legislature once again authorized expenditures to Planned Parenthood, the largest provider of abortion in the nation and probably in Kansas.

- 2009 LEGISLATIVE REPORT -

     The Senate passed--and the House adopted--a budget with a proviso moving Planned Parenthood to the bottom of the list for receiving Title X birth control subsidies in Kansas.  Governor Mark Parkinson vetoed that line item.  This means that Kansas taxpayers continue to fund the nation's most ambitious promoter of recreational sex.  Also, despite passage of a law requiring that any young woman requesting an abortion be given information containing the words, "the abortion will terminate the life of a whole, separate, unique, living human being", the Legislature took no action to end the State's own disregard for the humanity of the pre-born as seen in Kansas Title X payments for abortifacient birth control, Kansas Medicaid payments for abortion, and Kansas payments for abortion under the state health care benefits program.

- 2007 LEGISLATIVE REPORT -

     As this is written the Legislature is in the closing days of the 2007 Session. Thus, there is still a chance the status of some life proposals could change. There has been nothing done with bills to ban cloning or embryonic stem cell research. We look for an effort to amend some portions of one or both into the legislature’s "wrap up" bill but it's doubtful any ban on either will pass both houses of the legislature and certainly not be approved by the governor.

     The best that has happened thus far is the approval, by both houses, of Alexa's Law, the unborn victims of violence act. What will the governor do with it? We can only pray she signs it, even though we continue to object to the section of the proposal that codifies in Kansas law a woman's right to abortion.

     RTLK has always taken the position articulated so well by Notre Dame's professor emeritus of constitutional law, Dr. Charles E. Rice. Dr. Rice writes, "In any civilized society, the only coherent question is whether an innocent human being can be legally executed. The answer, obviously, is `No.’" In one section of Alexa's law the unborn child is acknowledged to be an innocent human being while in another section of that same bill, the mother of that innocent human being is given the right to have her child legally executed. One must ask, "Do we live in a truly `civilized society?'”