Kansas passes bill imposing penalties on doctors for certain abortions.

Kansas has passed a bill that could penalize doctors for not providing enough care to infants delivered alive during certain kinds of abortion procedures. The bill applies not only to “botched” or “unsuccessful” abortions but also when doctors induce labor to deliver a fetus that is expected to die within minutes or even seconds outside the womb. The legislation faces an uncertain fate in a legal and political climate that's made Kansas an outlier on abortion policy among states with GOP-led legislatures. The bill could still be challenged in court and not enforced.