"TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas became the first state Tuesday to ban a common second-trimester abortion procedure that critics describe as dismembering a fetus.

Republican Gov. Sam Brownback, a strong abortion opponent, signed a bill imposing the ban. The new law takes effect July 1.

Two abortion rights groups that operate clinics with abortion services, Trust Women and Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri, said they're considering challenging the new law in court.

The law bans the dilation and evacuation procedure and redefines it as "dismemberment abortion." Drafted by the National Right to Life Committee, the measure also has been introduced in Missouri, Oklahoma and South Carolina, though only Kansas lawmakers have passed it.

"This is a horrific procedure," Brownback spokesman Eileen Hawley said. "He hopes the nation follows suit."

The procedure is banned except when necessary to save a woman's life or prevent irreversible damage to her physical health. Doctors cannot use forceps, clamps, scissors or similar instruments on a fetus to remove it from the womb in pieces."

http://www.charter.net/news/read/article..._on_abortion-ap

He signs it until the CEO of Apple says it is bad for semiconductor production and Sam about faces on this law a la Meek Pence and Assa Hutchinson.