In what has to be the most direct, broad-ranging attack yet on women’s right to a safe, legal abortion, Kansas right wing lunatics have now passed a measure that would effectively criminalize all abortion, and requires doctors to lie to women about a nonexistent link between abortion and breast cancer. Bad craziness getting out of control: Kansas Set to Enact Law Saying Life Starts at Fertilization.

The religious right is slowly but surely dragging this country back into the Dark Ages, and making women into chattel. I don’t know why we’re overseas fighting the Taliban when we’ve got our own branch of these thuggish fanatics right here in the good ol’ USA.

Lawmakers in Kansas passed an extensive anti-abortion measure Friday night, which Gov. Sam Brownback is expected to sign into law. The bill declares that life begins “at fertilization,” prohibits abortions related to the baby’s sex and blocks tax breaks for health care providers that perform abortions.

The House passed the bill 90-30, hours after the Senate approved it 28-10.

The Associated Press quoted Republican Kansas Sen. Steve Fitzgerald, a supporter of the bill, as saying, “The human is a magnificent piece of work in all stages of development, wondrous in every regard, from the microscopic until full development.”

The bill, called The Women’s Right to Know Act, also requires doctors to provide controversial information to patients either seeking or inquiring about an abortion of a link between the procedure and breast cancer. The National Cancer Institute concluded in 2003 that abortion does not raise the risk for breast cancer, but physicians would have to address the issue as a “potential risk” for women seeking an abortion.