WICHITA, Kan. (AP) A federal magistrate judge has scheduled a
trial next year in a lawsuit challenging a Kansas law restricting
insurance coverage of abortion.
The tentative Jan. 7, 2013, trial was set in a revised
scheduling order handed down Friday by U.S. Magistrate Judge
Kenneth Gale in the lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties
Union.
U.S. District Judge Carlos Murguia in Kansas City, Kan., is now
presiding over the case. It was reassigned after the previous
judge, U.S. District Judge Wesley Brown, died last month at age
104.
The Kansas law bars insurance companies from offering abortion
coverage as part of general health plans in the state. Anyone
wanting abortion coverage must buy a rider that cover only that
procedure.
