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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Abortion opponents have been bracing themselves for nearly two years for a ruling from Kansas' highest court that protects abortion rights and upends politics in a state long at the center of the national debate.

The Kansas Supreme Court is relatively liberal for a state with a Republican-dominated Legislature that has strong anti-abortion majorities.

But court watchers are asking what is taking the justices so long to rule.

No one outside the court knows for sure and the justices are not saying.

But some observers think the justices still are wrestling with a deep split ov...