And now for the latest development in the ongoing soap opera that is the legal battle over abortion services in Kansas. Not content to leave the matter to the state's residents, a group of out-of-state physicians called the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists (the name ought to tip their hand) is attempting to push its way into the fight.
The Michigan-based group has filed a motion to intervene in the lawsuit over new Kansas rules for operating abortion clinics.
Long story made slightly less long: Kansas passed regulations that drastically changed how abortion clinics had to be set up to legally operate -- number of bathrooms, exit location, etc. -- and abortion rights supporters got a federal court to temporarily block the new law until a lawsuit could be settled. Now the group of Michigan doctors is filing a motion that claims its members have to unfairly bear the cost of women who've had abortions and experienced later complication from the procedure, forcing them to seek treatment.
Group spokesman Andrew Schlafly told the Star: "When there's a complication, the abortion clinic takes the attitude: 'Well just go to the ER.' Other people have to pick up the cost. Other people have to figure out what went wrong. That's not acceptable for any other operation."
Andrew, you and and I both know that's a bullshit argument.
Anyway, Teresa Woody, who's representing the doctors who run the Center for Women's Health, dismissed the filing as a publicity stunt. Which sounds right. So we're done here.
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