Six judges of the Kansas Supreme Court have earned themselves a lifetime of infamy (and perhaps a longer sentence of worse) with a monstrous ruling that the state’s constitution protects the right to dismember a child in utero.

The Kansas ruling in Hodes & Nauser v. Schmidt echoes the abomination of Roe v. Wade in both its bloody implications and its preposterous reasoning. If and when the Supreme Court finally discards the long-festering farce that is Roe, the Hodes ruling would continue to make the most vulnerable Kansans fair game, unprotected from slaughter.