It says the ban means a woman seeking a second-trimester abortion would instead have to submit to more complex and risky medical procedures.
An abortion-rights group challenged Kansas' first-in-the-nation ban on a second-trimester procedure that anti-abortion activists describe as dismembering a fetus.
Some say she'd started partying out of depression over a recent weight gain (her weight had more than tripled in the preceding trimester).
The charity said across the 10 countries, less than half of the children seen in its consultations were properly immunised against tetanus, measles, mumps and rubella and more than half pregnant women had not had access to antenatal care until they were well into their second trimester.
The lawsuit contends that the procedure is the most common method of ending a pregnancy after 14 weeks, and is used in 95% of second-trimester abortions nationwide.
Such instruments are commonly used in dilation and evacuation procedures performed during the second trimester.
According to Gallup, 61% believe it should be legal during the first three months of pregnancy, but this figure drops to 27% for the second trimester and 14% for the third.
The Supreme Court, in its landmark Roe v Wade ruling in 1973, held that the right of a woman to terminate her pregnancy in the first trimester was guaranteed by her constitutional right to privacy.
After all, Roe v Wade secures a woman's right to an abortion in the first trimester of pregnancy and the constitution's supremacy clause means that when state and federal law conflict, federal law wins.
It will surely scare those who offer abortions in the third trimester, as Dr Tiller did, but it will not come as news to such people that they have enemies.
The recent ACOG guidelines to offer first trimester screening for Down's syndrome to all pregnant women, regardless of their age, were not designed to prevent lawsuits as your article implies, but to enable families to choose from a variety of prenatal screening options.
