Kansas State Treasurer
Last week, the Kansas Supreme Court issued an inhuman ruling declaring they had found a right to unrestricted abortion in the language of the original Kansas Constitution. I cannot imagine that Kansans would have ratified the 1859 Constitution if they had known it somehow contained a right to dismember a little boy or girl. It sickens me that these unelected, liberal judges could have the power to make such a sweeping change that violates the will of “We the People.”
This is one of the darkest days in our state’s history. What I can recall are the days when as a State Senator my fellow legislators and I passed bill after bill protecting both women and their unborn child’s right to life.
In 2013 we passed a bill banning the practice of sex-selective abortion. In 2016 we passed a common sense measure that required abortionists to provide women with information about the procedure that Planned Parenthood seeks to hide. And on April 7, 2015 we celebrated with Kansans across the state over the signing of the bill successfully outlawing the barbaric practice of tearing apart a child in utero, commonly referred to as dismemberment abortion.
These laws successfully saved the lives of countless babies in Kansas, and I shudder to think of what will happen to so many innocent lives who will no longer have protection under the law. The Kansas Supreme Court has abandoned these unborn children, leaving them vulnerable to the unregulated abortion industry and those who would take away their chance to live.
I truly believe a society should be judged by how it treats the most vulnerable amongst it. Women in crisis and their innocent, unborn children truly are among our most vulnerable. I will never stop fighting for them. I encourage all Kansans to join with me first in praying for the innocent victims of this cruel court ruling, and then in getting back to work taking our state back from these liberalists who do not represent the will of Kansans.