Thu Nov 24, 2022 – 3:30 pm EST
TOPEKA, Kansas (LifeSiteNews) — A Kansas judge has blocked the state’s law prohibiting doctors from prescribing dangerous abortion-inducing drugs without an in-person consultation.
Judge Teresa Watson of the Shawnee County District Court sided with the Trust Women Foundation abortion clinic Wednesday, granting the group’s request for an injunction of the state’s Telemedicine Act, which prohibited doctors from prescribing harmful abortion pills remotely via telemedicine.
While abortion is legal in Kansas until week 22 of pregnancy, under the now-blocked Telemedicine Act, it was illegal for a doctor to doll out harmful abortion-inducing drugs like mifepristone without first having an in-person appointment with the woman seeking the drugs.
Watson had previously refused to grant the abortion-providing plaintiff an injunction, but the higher-ranking Kansas Court of Appeals ruled in June that Watson’s initial decision was incompatible with “well-established Kansas case law,” and sent the case back to Watson.
The judge’s decision to now side with the appeals court and the “Trust Women” abortion center is the second major defeat for Kansas pro-lifers since the overturning of Roe v. Wade in June.
In August, Kansas voters rejected a
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