Kobach and Kansas clinics agree to delay enforcement of 'abortion pill reversal' law

The deal means the controversial new law won’t take immediate effect in Kansas.
Kansas will not enforce its new “abortion pill reversal” law, set to take effect July 1, until a court rules on abortion providers’ request for a temporary injunction.

Attorney General Kris Kobach reached the agreement with abortion providers, who are challenging the new law and several older abortion restrictions providers say are harmful and unconstitutional.

“It’s a huge relief,” said Alice Wang, an attorney at the Center for Reproductive Rights.

The law would require doctors to give patients medically unsubstantiated information about the supposed reversibility of the abortion pill mifepristone. That violates providers’ right to free speech, Wang said, and interferes with patients’ right to get an abortion — which the Kansas Supreme Court has ruled the state constitution protects.