Kansas Governor Sam Brownback signed a bill into law that made Kansas the first state to ban a procedure that is used for most second-trimester abortions which the bill calls dismemberment abortion. This procedure accounts for over 9% of abortions that are performed in Kansas.

He signed the bill at his house during a party with the anti-abortion lobbyist that drafted it, the National Right To Life Committee.

Pro-choice proponents argue that this way of abortion is the safest way and the most humane way to perform an abortion during the second trimester and that this will force many abortion providers consider unsafe practices, effectively cutting the time to get an abortion from the 22 week limit to 14 weeks.