It’s one of those stories that could have written pretty much anytime over, say, the last 18 months. The headline to AP reporter John Hanna’s story (as published last week in the Washington Post) is “Kansas abortion foes brace for state Supreme Court decision.” Hanna is alluded to the mysterious inaction of the Kansas Supreme Court which heard a state challenge to a lower court injunction that enjoined Kansas’s ban on dismemberment abortions nearly two years ago. The consensus across the board was that a majority of the justices seemed favorably disposed to the bizarre argument that 160 years after the state Constitution was drafted, a hitherto unknown right to privacy even broader than the Supreme Court found in its 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, had been discovered.
