HB 2035: Abortion Reporting Accuracy and Parental Rights Act
Topeka – Today, House Judiciary Committee Chair Lance Kinzer (R-Olathe) and a group of sixty-three bipartisan co-sponsors, comprising a majority of the Kansas House, introduced HB 2035. Over the last five legislative sessions, a clear consensus has developed in both the House and Senate regarding the need to reform Kansas abortion laws to ensure the protection of women and their unborn children. HB 2035 addresses issues of late-term and partial-birth abortion reporting and enforcement that have passed the legislature multiples times only to be vetoed by radically pro-abortion governors.

“At its best, the pro-life movement in the United States has stood for the bedrock principles of human dignity, compassion and the rule of law,” said Representative Lance Kinzer. “The intent of this legislation is to advance each of these important values.”

The key provisions of HB 2035 include:

• Enhanced reporting of evidence of sexual abuse of minors seeking abortions
• Law-enforcement access to Kansas Department of Health and Environment reports
• Clarification of the Kansas Department of Health and Environment’s rule and regulation authority relating to late-term abortion reporting
• Disclosure of a specific medical diagnosis to justify the abortion of a viable, late-term baby
• A requirement that the doctor must inform the woman of the specific medical basis justifying the procedure prior to performing a late-term abortion on a viable, unborn baby
• A parental consent requirement that includes two-parent consent in cases involving stable, intact families with no abuse
• Clarification of the standards by which courts can grant exceptions to the parental consent requirement
• Requirement that a good faith medical determination that the mother will suffer substantial and irreversible impairment, is needed to justify the abortion of a viable, unborn baby
• Enhancement of the informed consent information to include a disclosure of the fact that abortion terminates the life of a human being
• A civil cause of action for violation of late-term abortion restrictions
• Update of the existing Kansas partial-birth abortion ban to more closely mirror the more stringent Federal ban