Kansas set for ban on 2nd trimester abortions.

TOPEKA, Kan. -- Kansas legislators Wednesday approved a proposed ban on a common second-trimester procedure described by abortion opponents as dismembering a fetus, making their state the first to adopt a national group's model policy.

The state House voted 98-26 to outlaw the dilation and evacuation procedure, which is used in about 8 percent of all abortions in Kansas. The measure was drafted by the National Right to Life Committee.

The Senate approved the bill last month, so it goes next to Republican Gov. Sam Brownback, who promised publicly during an anti-abortion rally in January to sign it. Mary Spaulding Balch, the national group's director of state legislation, said lawmakers are banning...