Kansas abortion providers face new rule after veto overriden

Kansas health care providers could face criminal charges over accusations about their care of newborns delivered during certain abortion procedures. That's because the Republican-controlled Legislature on Wednesday overrode Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly’s veto of new legislation. The new law takes effect July 1 and will require that heath care providers to render the same care that a reasonably diligent “reasonably diligent and conscientious” provider would with other live births. Violating the law will be a felony, punishable up to a year’s probation for a first-time offender. Abortion opponents cast is as a matter of decency. But critics see the law as an attempt to sow confusion and fear about abortion.