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Endorsed Bill Makes Causing Miscarriage A Crime In Kansas

Published in Women's Health Weekly, February 22nd, 1995

A Kansas Senate subcommittee, trying to skirt the abortion issue, has endorsed a bill that would make it a crime to cause a pregnant woman to have a miscarriage.

The Senate Judiciary subcommittee's action was a response to an episode last March when a woman lost the child she was carrying in a car accident in Ottawa, Kansas.

The bill originally would have defined a fetus as a "preborn human being," which abortion rights advocates said could be used to try to block a woman's right to end a pregnancy. Both sides of the abortion issue now support the measure.

The bill, based on a New Mexico law, will be taken up by the full Senate...

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Source: Women's Health Weekly (1995-02-22)

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