The Pro-Life Protections Act prevents any state funds from being used for abortion, bans abortions that are based solely on the gender of the unborn child, and declares that the life of each human being begins at fertilization.

A second bill bans “wrongful birth” lawsuits claiming damages for a disabled child that “would have been aborted” had a doctor provided the parents with better information.

For more information on these bills, including how your state representative and state senator voted on them, click here for the Pro-Life Protections Act and here for the “Wrongful Birth” ban.

To see how your state representative and state senator voted, click here.

–Alexander Hamilton, Federalist 78

Alas, not quite.

The Founding Fathers, formed by deep study of history’s various attempts at free societies — John Adams was reading Cicero’s Orations at 14 instead of staring at Facebook — established a system of government still in place 224 years later.  Yet they could not foresee all.  Today, the judiciary is very dangerous indeed, for our robed, unelected guardians have decided that Americans and their elected officials are not fit to decide many of the most consequential issues of our time.

Forty years after the US Supreme Court declared that Congress and the states do not possess the power to forbid the killing of unborn children, the Court stands on the verge of what some are calling a potential “Roe v. Wade for marriage.”  The Supreme Court will soon decide whether the people of California have the right to amend their state constitution in favor of marriage as it has been understood for all of human history, and whether the federal Defense of Marriage Act is constitutional.

Not receiving as much attention is the fact that the Kansas Supreme Court is more than holding its own in terms of judicial activism run amok.  In February, the Kansas Supreme Court ruled that despite the fact that she has no biological connection to the two children in question, a women from a broken-off same-sex relationship has full parental rights, contrary to the wishes of the biological mother.

That ruling is already being cited by a Topeka woman who also wants to assert parental rights over a child she has no biological connection to, but who she had agreed to “co-parent” with her former, same-sex partner (despite the breakup, they are co-parenting and foster parenting a total of eight children).  The father, who answered a Craigslist ad seeking sperm, wants only to be free of any obligation to the child he helped create.  Who says there are no great men anymore?

If you happen to be disturbed by these proceedings, rest assured the culture holds you in contempt.  Each day, from the comfort of their television studios and editorial board rooms, self-imagined freedom riders congratulate themselves for their labors in the vineyard of “civil rights.”  Of course, fighting for civil rights is a much less daunting endeavor now that it does not involve having dogs sicced on you or hoses turned on you, and instead means going on talk shows with oversized coffee mugs to sneer at opponents of same-sex marriage.

If you believe that every child deserves a mother and a father, and that this obligation trumps the total sexual freedom of adults, the culture has ruled against you.  Soon, the highest court in the land may too.

Governor Brownback is expected to sign the bill.

SB 22 would establish the corporate education tax credit scholarship program.  Corporate donors would be able to contribute to scholarship granting nonprofit organizations, which would then use those private funds to provide scholarships to students wishing to attend private schools.  The corporation would then get a tax credit.  The bill would not send any state money to private schools.

A two-year “sunset” provision was added in committee that would end the program after two years unless the Legislature voted again to reauthorize it.  This “sunset” provision needs to be removed and is looked at as a “poison pill” by bill supporters.

Here is how the Senate voted:

Yeas: Abrams, Apple, Arpke, Bowers, Bruce, Denning, Donovan, Emler, Faust-Goudeau, Fitzgerald, Holmes, Kelly, Kerschen, King, Knox, LaTurner, Longbine, Love, Lynn, Masterson, McGinn, Melcher, O’Donnell, Olson, Ostmeyer, Petersen, Pettey, Pilcher-Cook, Powell, Pyle, V. Schmidt, Smith, Tyson, Wagle.

Nays: Francisco, Haley, Hawk, Hensley.

Present and Passing: Holland, Wolf.