Kansas legislation · 2025-2026 Regular Session
Kansas HB2010: Prohibiting abortion procedures and creating the crimes of unlawful performance of an abortion and unlawful destruction of a fertilized embryo
Status: In committee, April 10, 2026
What the bill says
An act concerning abortion; prohibiting abortion; creating the crimes of unlawful performance of an abortion and unlawful destruction of a fertilized embryo and establishing penalties therefor; restricting the use of fetal tissue; relating to exclusions from sales and use tax exemptions for certain abortion providers; amending K.S.A. 21-5301, 21-5302, 215303, 65-2837, 65-6731, 65-6732, 65-67a01, 65-67a02, 65-67a04, 6567a07, 76-3308 and 79-32,195 and K.S.A. 2024 Supp. 60-1901, 601906, 65-2401, 79-32,182b, 79-32,261 and 79-3606 and repealing the existing sections; also repealing K.S.A…
From the introduced text, January 15, 2025:
AN ACT concerning abortion; prohibiting abortion; creating the crimes of unlawful performance of an abortion and unlawful destruction of a fertilized embryo and establishing penalties therefor; restricting the use of fetal tissue; relating to exclusions from sales and use tax exemptions for certain abortion providers; amending K.S.A. 21-5301, 21-5302, 215303, 65-2837, 65-6731, 65-6732, 65-67a01, 65-67a02, 65-67a04, 6567a07, 76-3308 and 79-32,195 and K.S.A. 2024 Supp. 60-1901, 601906, 65-2401, 79-32,182b, 79-32,261 and 79-3606 and repealing the existing sections; also repealing K.S.A. 38-2003, 65-4a02, 65-4a03, 654a04, 65-4a05, 65-4a06, 65-4a07, 65-4a08, 65-4a09, 65-4a10, 65-4a11, 65-4a12, 65-6702, 65-6703, 65-6704, 65-6705, 65-6707, 65-6709, 656710, 65-6711, 65-6712, 65-6714, 65-6715, 65-6721, 65-6722, 656724, 65-6725, 65-6726, 65-6741, 65-6743, 65-6744, 65-6745, 656746, 65-6747, 65-6748, 65-6749 and 65-67a09 and K.S.A. 2024 Supp. 65-445, 65-4a01, 65-6701, 65-6708, 65-6723 and 65-6742. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas: New Section 1. (a) The purposes of sections 1 through 4, and amendments thereto, are: (1) To follow the constitution of the United States, which requires that "no state...shall deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws"; (2) to fulfill such constitutional and statutory requirements by protecting the lives of unborn persons with the same criminal and civil laws protecting the lives of born persons by repealing provisions that permit willful prenatal murder or assault; (3) …