TOPEKA, October 9, 2001 (LSN.ca) – The Kansas Supreme Court issued a decision September 21 noting that doctors have a duty to unborn children. “We hold, as a matter of law, that a physician who has a doctor-patient relationship with a pregnant woman who intends to carry her fetus to term and deliver a healthy baby also has a doctor-patient relationship with the fetus,” said the 7-0 decision.
National Right to Life Committee (NRLC) general counsel Jim Bopp Jr. commented saying: “This decision just bears generally on the oddity of abortion law, and how out of step abortion law is with medical law. What is strange is abortion law, which treats the unborn as if it’s not a real person. The recognition that it is so has caused the pro-abortion side to become involved in all sorts of cases – criminal prosecutions against third parties, because they don’t want a child to be recognized as a victim.
For more see the Washington Times coverage: https://www.washtimes.com/national/20011007-327768.htm