The largest anti-abortion organization in Kansas distanced itself Thursday from similar groups elsewhere that oppose a drug regulation bill supported by Sen. Pat Roberts.
Roberts, who has a perfect anti-abortion voting record as scored by the National Right to Life Committee, came under fire earlier this month from a coalition of conservative and anti-abortion groups that oppose his bill to strengthen federal oversight of large compounding pharmacies.
The coalition, organized by the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, complained that the bill could make too expensive a drug that is used to treat women prone to premature birth.
The coalition also said the bill could restrict therapies that could arise from adult stem cell research.
But those concerns are not shared universally, even among other anti-abortion groups. A researcher from the conservative Family Research Council recently told The Kansas City Star that the coalition’s concerns were “misplaced.”
And on Thursday, Mary Kay Culp, executive director for Kansans for Life, weighed in with a prepared statement. Culp’s group never was part of the coalition.
“Kansans for Life agrees with the careful analysis of the bill by a national expert at the Family Research Council, which disagreed with the coalition’s stated concerns, and thus believes there is no reason for our organization to support or oppose the bill as currently written,” Culp wrote.