Pro-Life Legislative Successes

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Sometimes it’s hard to see yourself in the context of a large, powerful movement. We all easily default to the idea that a single voice, vote, donation or hour of volunteer involvement can’t really matter in the grand scheme of things.

If you’ve landed here we want you to know your time, help, interest and giving are critical dominos. We hope you’ll take a few minutes now to enjoy this timeline record of our…your…pro-life legislative successes.

1997

Woman’s Right to Know Act (SB 204): Requires a 24-hour waiting period before having an abortion and requires that women considering abortion have access to KDHE-issued medical information about prenatal development, abortion procedures, risks and alternatives.
The Woman’s Right to Know Act was struck down by Judge K. Christopher Jayaram on August 3, 2026.
HB 2181: Creates a cancer registry and guides how data may be used as it relates to abortion.

1998

HB 2531: Kansas begins to directly protect preborn babies from late-term abortions starting at viability, when the baby can survive outside the mother’s womb. The law includes exceptions to save the life of the mother or prevent irreversible, major bodily harm. Kansas also makes assisting another person’s suicide a crime.

1999

HB 2489: Law establishes matching grants to non-profit organizations that help women carry pregnancies to term. (renamed Stan Clark Pregnancy Maintenance Initiative fund in 2005).

2000

S Sub HB 2007: Creates law to dictate the proper handling of fetal tissue and restricts the sale of fetal organs from abortions.

2004

S Sub HB 2647: Kansas excludes medical research that involves abortion or human embryo destruction from the state budget.

2005

Child Rape Protection Act (HB 2380): Law protects minors having abortions by requiring that clinics send fetal tissue samples from abortions on minors under the age of 14 to the Kansas Bureau of Investigation (KBI) for fetal DNA evidence for rape charges.

2007

Alexa’s Law (HB 2062): allows criminal prosecution for both victims when a pregnant woman is injured or killed during a crime and her unborn child is also injured or killed.

2009

H Sub SB 238: “Woman’s Right to Know and See” requires women be given the option to view and receive a copy of the sonogram done before an abortion; adds access to 4-D ultrasound videos and a detailed list of pregnancy assistance through a state managed website.
This requirement was struck down with the Woman’s Right to Know Act by Judge K. Christopher Jayaram on August 3, 2026.

2011

HB 2035: Protects parents’ right to guide their minor daughters through unexpected pregnancy; adds psychiatric evaluation to waiver requirements, and makes judges mandatory abuse reporters; closes loophole for “mental health” abortions after viability.
HB 2218: Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act safeguards preborn babies from abortion at 22 weeks’ gestation (modern science has demonstrated babies can feel pain at 15 weeks or earlier). The law includes exceptions to save the life of the mother or prevent major bodily harm that cannot be reversed.
H Sub SB 36: The Abortion Clinic Licensure law required the Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) to regulate abortion facilities and perform health and safety inspections. The law also required abortionists to quickly report abortion-related complications and deaths, limited abortion procedures to only be performed by Kansas-licensed physicians with hospital privileges within 30 miles of the clinic, and outlawed telemedicine “webcam” abortions.
This law was struck down by the Kansas Supreme Court in July of 2024.
HB 2075: Prohibits abortion coverage in taxpayer-funded health insurance plans. For private health insurance plans, women must purchase separate elective abortion coverage.
S Sub HB 2014: Writes budget language to steer Title X federal grant money to full-service health clinics and hospitals and away from abortion providers.
This law went into effect in 2014, after a legal challenge win at the federal appeals level.

2012

Healthcare Rights of Conscience Act (H Sub SB 62): Shields healthcare providers from job loss and lawsuits for refusing to perform or refer for abortions.
H Sub SB 294: Eliminates tax-funded abortion training at KU Med.

2013

Pro-Life Protections Act (HB 2253): Prevents state taxpayer funding for abortion and tax breaks for abortionists; affirms in public policy that “life begins at conception;” prohibits school districts from using abortion industry literature and staff for sex education in schools; prohibits sex-selective abortion; improves pre-abortion informed consent and strengthens the anti-coercion notice abortion clinics are required to post informing women they cannot be forced into abortion by someone else; increases KDHE support for families facing a prenatal disability diagnosis.
Some of the included informed consent provisions amending the Woman’s Right to Know Act were struck down by Judge K. Christopher Jayaram on August 3, 2026.
HB 2164: Improves method of citizen-petitioned grand juries, a useful tool to fight abortion industry corruption.
HB 2019: Changes process for appointing new Kansas Court of Appeals judges to the “federal model,” in which the governor nominates and the state Senate votes to confirm or reject, removing control from lawyers’ groups.
SB 142: Affirms civil rights for preborn babies by outlawing “wrongful birth/wrongful life” lawsuits.
SB 199: Creates the Midwest Stem Cell Therapy Center at the University of Kansas Medical Center to study, improve, and share information about safe, ethical, and effective medical treatments using adult stem cells rather than methods that destroy embryos.

2014

SB 54: Provides a clear legal definition of “medical emergency” throughout abortion laws.

2015

Kansas unborn child protection from dismemberment abortion act (SB 95): Kansas becomes the first state in the nation to pass a law attempting to stop live dismemberment abortion methods from being used on preborn babies.
This law was struck down by the Kansas Supreme Court in 2024.
S Sub HB 2228: Clarifies hospital protocol for administering abortion drugs as an update to the 2011 Abortion Clinic Licensing Law.
This law was struck down by the Kansas Supreme Court in 2024.

2016

SB 248: Continues to direct Title X taxpayer funds to full-service, public “safety net” clinics and away from abortion facilities as state law instead of as an annual budget item.
HB 2615: Prevents nurse-midwives who are practicing independently of a physician from performing or inducing abortions.

2017

The Disclose Act (SB 83): Requires abortion clinics to provide abortion-seeking women information about the doctor who will perform the abortion, including state of residence, year medical degree obtained, any negative actions by the Board of Healing Arts, status of hospital admitting privileges, date employment by this clinic began, etc.
This requirement was struck down with the Woman’s Right to Know Act by Judge K. Christopher Jayaram on August 3, 2026.
Simon’s Law (Sub SB 85): Simon’s Law prevents “Do Not Resuscitate”  (DNR) orders from being placed on minor children without parental notice, requires medical facilities to disclose any written futile care policies when asked.

2018

S Sub HB 2028: Adds additional protections against telemedicine abortions.
Adoption Protection Act (SB 284): Protects the rights of faith-based adoption agencies and prohibits them from being forced to violate their conscience.

2020

Successfully blocked efforts to expand taxpayer-funded abortions through medicaid expansion.

2021

VALUE THEM BOTH Amendment approved by the Kansas Legislature and date set to appear on voters’ ballots in the 2022 primary election.

2023

Born-Alive Infants Protection Act (HB 2313): Provides legal protections for infants who are born alive regardless of the intent of the delivery.
HB 2264: Abortion Pill Reversal (APR) Informed Consent requires that women considering chemical abortions be informed of the chance to potentially save their baby through quick use of APR and where to get timely medical help to try and reverse the effects of the first abortion pill.
This APR requirement was struck down with the Woman’s Right to Know Act by Judge K. Christopher Jayaram on August 3, 2026.
HB 2184: Establishes the Kansas “Alternatives to Abortion Program” with $2 million in funding for pregnancy resource centers (PRCs), maternity homes, and adoption centers; includes a pregnancy assistance public awareness campaign.
HB 2024: Creates the Kansas “Safe Haven”law, allowing a parent to turn over custody of an infant at a newborn safety device.

2024

HB 2436: Criminalizes abortion coercion. Penalties can now be instituted against those who coerce women into having abortions.
Pregnancy Compassion Awareness Program: This provision, formerly named the “Alternatives to Abortion Program,” maintains $3M in funding for pregnancy resource centers and maternity homes across Kansas as of 2025.
HB 2465: Establishes pro-life tax policies that include additional tax credits for families who adopt children, tax credits for donors to PRCs and maternity homes, and the removal of the sales tax burden on those organizations. Allows families to create adoption savings accounts.
HB 2749: Requires abortion statistics to be reported biannually by the Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) within 30 days of the end of each reporting period. Improves the quality of state data by expanding the information collected by KDHE to include the reasons why women choose abortion.*
The requirement that abortionists ask women their reasons for abortion was struck down with the Woman’s Right to Know Act by Judge K. Christopher Jayaram on August 3, 2026.

2025

S Sub HB 2382: Requires school districts to include scientifically accurate fetal development presentations, with video, in human biology and sex education curriculum.
HB 2062: Requires courts to consider child support beginning at the moment of conception and extends tax exemptions to parents of preborn and stillborn children.
Increased funding for the Pregnancy Compassion Awareness Program to $3 million—a $1 million boost from previous years—to support pregnancy resource centers and maternity homes across Kansas.
HB 2307: Gives authority for establishing parent support programs for women and families receiving a prenatal or postnatal diagnosis of a lifelong chromosonal condition, such as Down syndrome, to the Kansas Council on Developmental Disabilities.
HB 2359: Strengthens end-of-life protections for individuals with disabilities to ensure they are not denied life-sustaining care, including food, water, and medical treatment.

2026

CARE ACT (HB 2635): Protects private pregnancy centers (PRCs) from discrimination by any state or local government entity based on their refusal to perform or refer for abortions.
HB 2727: Strengthens enforcement of Kansas’ informed consent laws by giving women a clear and accessible path to hold abortionists accountable when those laws are violated.
HB 2729: Restores women’s access to critical information before an abortion is performed; requires the Kansas Department of Health and Environment to develop a standardized informed consent form containing information already required under Kansas law, including fetal development, abortion risks, alternatives to abortion, and where women can find help if they chose life for their babies.
Pregnancy Compassion Awareness Act (HB 2789): $3 million secured in continued funding for pregnancy centers across Kansas that provide free resources and assistance to women and families.
Budget provision: Ensures that Kansas taxpayer dollars are not directed to abortion businesses through Medicaid.