Dorothy, we're still in Kansas where pro-abortion public officials are still stonewalling the charges Phill Kline filed against Planned Parenthood.
Pro-Life Group Wants Court Action on Illegal Abortions at Kansas Planned Parenthood
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by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
February 18, 2010
Topeka, KS (LifeNews.com) -- A pro-life group is calling on the Kansas Supreme Court to get moving on 107 charges Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri is facing that it potentially engaged in illegal abortions. Operation Rescue says the state's high court has stalled on the case for months.
Former state attorney general Phill Kline, as the then Johnson County District Attorney, filed 107 charges, including 23 felonies, against the abortion business for allegedly violating state law.
The Kansas Supreme Court held a hearing in the case involving the Overland Park Planned Parenthood abortion center last May. Read article here.
The following courtesy of Operation Rescue; partial list of events: (Click
here for the Operation Rescue timeline).
September 21, 2004 – At the request of Attorney General Phill Kline, Judge Richard Anderson issues subpoenas for 90 abortion records from Planned Parenthood and Tiller’s Women’s Health Care Services (WHCS). The abortion clinics were ordered to produce the records by October 5, 2005.
October 4, 2004 – Both Planned Parenthood and WHCS file motions to quash Kline’s subpoenas.
October 5, 2004 – District Court Judge Richard Anderson rejects the abortion clinic’s motion to quash subpoenas for abortion records and orders them to produce the documents by October 15, 2004.
February 3, 2006 – The Kansas Supreme Court rules that Kline is entitled to the abortion records. They establish a complicated redaction process to insure that the records will contain no patient identifying information. The Court says that the subpoenas must be reissued, and Kline promises to do so at an impromptu press conference in Wichita.
October 24, 2006 – Kline finally receives posession of 90 hotly contested abortion records, three years after he asked for them and nearly 9 months after the KS Supreme court ruled that he was entitled to them.
Why is it taking so long to prosecute Planned Parenthood on these charges?
Pro-abortion forces, including the Tiller Clinic's pacs, have contributed millions to influence ligislation and court actions to fight Phill Kline's fight to convict both Tiller, when he was alive, and Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Missouri. (Dr. Tiller's killer should be tried and sentenced to the maximum allowed by law).
Review the following web sites:
Kansas Meadowlark web site.
Tiller's Political Influence.
Planned Parenthood has an '
Action Center,' which receives donations in order to elect public officials who are 'pro-choice:'.
Pro-Abortion Kansas Supreme Court Justice is part of the opposition to charges filed agains abortion clinics in Kansas:
Alpha Medical Clinic and Beta Medical Clinic et al. v. Hon. Richard Anderson In a unanimous decision authored by Justice Carol A. Beier, ruled that three federal constitutional privacy interests are threatened by Attorney General Phill Kline's subpoenas for patient records from two Kansas abortion clinics and, therefore, Shawnee County District Judge Richard Anderson must reconsider whether the subpoenas should issue under tightly drawn restrictions. The court declined the clinics' request to hold the attorney general in contempt of court for alleged violations of an order sealing documents and proceedings related to the inquisition.
Posted from Kansas
Liberty.ComThe threat by Kansas Supreme Court justice Carol Beier to bring ethics charges against her nemesis, former Attorney General Phill Kline, was apparently broadened Monday to include Kline's former assistant, Stephen Maxwell.
A Supreme Court administrator served Maxwell with a formal complaint alleging Maxwell violated several ethics rules. The complaint was written by Stanton Hazlett, disciplinary administrator. The Board for Discipline of Attorneys is an entity within the Kansas Supreme Court. If Maxwell cannot successfully refute the charge, Beier, who is up for retention in the 2010 fall election, will be one of the justices who decides his fate. Read entire article here.
I have been following the cases against the late Dr. George Tiller and Planned Parenthood in Kansas for several years and have read various accounts in several local area print media: The Kansas City Star, The Wichita Beacon, The Topeka Capitol-Journal, and the Lawrence Journal World. Of these four, only the Lawrence Journal-World was halfway unbiased in some of their reporting. The other three are solidly pro-choice and hate anything pro-life, and have refused to publish the true facts of the case. They have consistently defended both Tiller and Planned Parenthood, and have railed against Phill Kline and have done all they can to destroy his credibility.
I will follow this case and provide updates when new developments occur. Meanwhile, this year, As the Kansas Supreme Court has done it part in subverting justice, I will do all I can on this web site, through email, and other means, to see that none of the justices, especially Justice Bierer, on the ballot for retention are retained.