title: US: Kansas court strikes down harsher penalty for gay underage sex.
abstract: In October 2005, the Kansas Supreme Court struck down a law that would impose harsher penalties for same-sex statutory rape cases than for heterosexual cases. In arriving at its conclusion that the distinction had no rational basis, the Court noted that gay teenage sex is no more likely than adult or heterosexual sex to result in HIV transmission.
authors.forename: Alana
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Klein
mesh_terms: D003075:Coitus; D005260:Female; D006716:Homosexuality; D006801:Humans; D007615:Kansas; D008297:Male; D011678:Punishment