65-6743. Dismemberment abortion prohibited; exceptions. (a) No person shall perform, or attempt to perform, a dismemberment abortion on an unborn child unless: (1) The dismemberment abortion is necessary to preserve the life of the pregnant woman; or (2) a continuation of the pregnancy will cause a substantial and irreversible physical impairment of a major bodily function of the pregnant woman. No condition shall be deemed to exist if it is based on a claim or diagnosis that the woman will engage in conduct that would result in her death or in substantial and irreversible physical impairment of a major bodily function.
(b) No woman upon whom an abortion is performed or attempted to be performed shall be liable for performing or attempting to perform a dismemberment abortion. No nurse, technician, secretary, receptionist or other employee or agent who is not a physician, but who acts at the direction of a physician, and no pharmacist or other individual who is not a physician, but who fills a prescription or provides instruments or materials used in an abortion at the direction of or to a physician shall be liable for performing or attempting to perform a dismemberment abortion.
History: L. 2015, ch. 22, ยง 3; July 1.
Structure Kansas Statutes
65-6704 Abortion upon minor; required information and counseling.
65-6707 Same; severability clause.
65-6708 Woman's-right-to-know act; citation.
65-6711 Same; information where medical emergency compels performances of an abortion.
65-6714 Same; severability clause.
65-6722 Abortion of pain-capable unborn child; legislative findings.
65-6725 Same; construction of act.
65-6726 Abortion based on gender; prohibited.
65-6731 Prohibition on certain funding for abortions; definitions.
65-6732 Legislative declaration that life begins at fertilization.
65-6733 Prohibition on certain funding for abortion.
65-6734 Same; school districts.
65-6735 Same; construction of act.
65-6736 Same; no requirement to provide or right to an abortion.
65-6737 Same; discrimination prohibited.
65-6738 Same; applicability of act.
65-6741 Kansas unborn child protection from dismemberment abortion act; citation of act.
65-6743 Dismemberment abortion prohibited; exceptions.
65-6744 Cause of action for injunctive relief.
65-6745 Civil action for violation of act.
65-6746 Criminal penalties for violation of act.
65-6747 Legal proceedings; public disclosure of name of woman, orders against such disclosure.
65-6750 Effect of injunction or other judicial order on provisions of article 67.