Kansas City, Mo. - A new Kansas law that bans insurers from providing elective abortion coverage is the state's third abortion-related measure to draw a legal challenge in recent months.
A federal lawsuit filed Tuesday by the American Civil Liberties Union contends the law is unconstitutional and discriminates against women because it doesn't apply similar insurance limits on men's health care needs.
"The state enacted a law with no purpose other than to try to make it more difficult for women to obtain abortion care and to pay for that care," said Brigitte Amiri, senior staff attorney with the ACLU's Reproductive Freedom Project.
Kansas is among 10 states that have passed new laws restricting insurance coverage of abortion since 2010, Amiri said. The ACLU singled out Kansas because its law was the first to take effect, she said.
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its safe to say if ACLU is for it, im against it. this is the third largest federally funded terrorist group in america! (behind the feds/irs and the naacp)
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