Posted on 02/09/2011 4:07:44 PM PST by wagglebee
Former Kansas prosecutor Phill Kline will face an ethics hearing on February 21, 2011, on politically-motivated charges that he acted improperly during his investigations of abortion clinics, even though recently released documents show that investigators for the Disciplinary Administrator cleared Kline of any wrong-doing in 2008.
In a Disciplinary Report filed with the Disciplinary Administrator on May 22, 2008, a team of investigators carefully looked into the trumped-up ethics charges against Kline. Their determination left no question that Kline did nothing improper to warrant further action.
After reviewing the substantial documentation in this case, it is the opinion of these investigators that there is not probable cause to prove that Phill Kline violated any of the rules of ethics, they wrote.
The investigators quoted from Judge Richard Anderson, who oversaw Klines abortion clinic investigations as Attorney General, who said it was his finding that Kline stood on firm legal ground in advancing his theory that the clinics have failed to comply with K.S.A. 65-6703(b)(2), the law regulating late-term abortions.
They also found charges that Kline sought the identities of abortion patients to be without merit and that his appearance on The OReilly Factor cable news program was not improper or prejudicial.
Inexplicably, the report was buried by the Disciplinary Administrators office and only discovered when Kline began reviewing 30,000 pages of documents in preparation for the upcoming hearing.
Kline investigated abortion abuses while serving as State Attorney General and later as Johnson County District Attorney between 2003 and 2008. As a result of his investigations, Kline filed 107 criminal charges against Comprehensive Health of Planned Parenthood in Overland Park for committing illegal late-term abortions and for making a false writing to cover up other crimes.
That criminal case, while still pending, continues to languish without action on the desk of one of Klines political rivals, District Attorney Steve Howe, who appears to be looking to the outcome of the ethics hearing against Kline before deciding to prosecute Planned Parenthood, or bury the evidence of its crimes forever.
Attorneys for Planned Parenthood and another abortion clinic concocted a scheme to file the ethics complaint against Kline as a gambit to discredit their prosecutor and therefore scuttle the cases against them. Disciplinary Administrator Stan Hazlett has been their more-than-willing pawn. The former Sebelius administration established a political climate where abortion clinics were to be protected at all costs. This fueled the legal persecution that now threatens to strip Kline of his law license.
It is no secret that Hazlett has refused to drop the Kline case because of political differences. Hazlett was appointed by and serves at the good pleasure of the Kansas Supreme Court, which is compromised predominately of appointees of radical abortion supporter former Gov. Kathleen Sebelius, who now serves as Secretary of Health and Human Services in the Obama administration. During the Sebelius tenure in Kansas, there was a well-documented concerted effort to cover for and protect abortion clinics from investigation and prosecution, even when their crimes involved the illegal abortion of healthy viable babies and the concealment of child rape. Hazletts ethics prosecution of Kline is one of the last remnants of the Sebelius abortion-protection scheme.
The Kline ethics case is a political lynching and we cant stand for it, said Operation Rescue President Troy Newman. In Kansas there has been an aggressive crusade to persecute prosecutors that have tried to enforce Kansas abortion laws. The purpose is to discredit the investigation so that the criminal case against Planned Parenthood can be dismissed and the evidence against them destroyed. It is wrong for Hazlett to place his corrupt personal and political vendetta above the rule of law and above the health and safety of women. Maybe Hazlett is the one who should be facing ethics charges.
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What isn’t mentioned here, is how the press destroyed Kline prior to the 2006 election, and continued to go after him when he became D.A. of Johnson County.
http://www.kansasmeadowlark.com/2007/11-26/index.htm
It's an outrage that taxpayers are forced to subsidize this oddball organization's peculiar fixation w/ genitalia. PP is also suspected of aiding and abetting underage sex abuse, and suspected of participating in cover-ups----performing abortions on underage teens who were impregnated by older males and failing to notify authorities. PP clinicians apparently may have covered up sexual abuse of underage teens by falsifying federal documents in order to receive federal funds for performing underage abortions. That would be classified as government fraud -- tax funding not allowable under federal law.
PLANNED PARENTHOOD GENITAL SNIFFERS RAMPANT GOVERNMENT FRAUD
<><><> The US Inspector General found that NJ Planned Parenthood falsified Medicaid claims to get their hands on $2.9 million they were not entitled to.
<><><> Planned Parenthood of the Inland Northwest will pay the state $345,000 after settling a 2009 audit that uncovered the clinic used incorrect codes and provided insufficient documentation for some claims billed to Medicaid.
<><><> The original audit finding estimated the Spokane family-planning organization improperly billed Medicaid more than $629,000 for 333 patient procedures from March 2004 through February 2007. During that time, the clinic collected about $7.6 million from Medicaid.
<><><> Planned Parenthood California is under criminal investigation for billing taxpayers high prices for birth control equipment that they obtained on the cheap.
<><><> The Picower Foundation, one of PP's biggest financiers, was in cahoots with Ponzi thief Bernie Madoff, and was forced to give back $9B that was apparently part of a money-laundering tax evasion deal that got Picower an unlikely 900% return on investment
Pro-Life Victory: KS Supreme Court Allows Planned Parenthood Criminal Case to go Forward
TOPEKA, Kansas, October 15, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The Kansas Supreme Court ruled today that the mammoth 107-count criminal case against Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri may move forward and remanded the case back down to the Johnson County District Attorney's Office for prosecution.
"This is a huge victory for the cause of life," said Operation Rescue President Troy Newman, whose group has worked for years to bring Planned Parenthood to justice. "Now it is up to the Johnson County District Attorney to do the right thing and prosecute Planned Parenthood to the fullest in the interest of justice and in the interest of public safety."
The charges were filed in 2007 by then-District Attorney Phil Kline, who had investigated Planned Parenthood and George Tiller for illegal late-term abortions during his tenure as State Attorney General. --SNIP--
In February 2004, US Senate candidate Barack Obama's wife, Michelle, sent a fund-raising letter with the "alarming news" that "right-wing politicians" had passed a law (prohibiting doctors from stabbing half-born babies in the neck with scissors, suctioning out their brains and crushing their skulls).
Michelle Obama called partial-birth abortion "a legitimate medical procedure. " She urged supporters to pay $150 to attend a fund-raising luncheon for her husband, who she promised would fight against "cynical ploy[s]" to stop it.
BACKGROUND Legislation was presented on the federal level and in various states called the Born Alive Infants Protection Act. It stated all live-born babies were guaranteed the same constitutional right to equal protection, whether or not they were wanted. BAIPA sailed through the U.S. Senate by unanimous vote. Even Sens. Clinton, Kennedy and Kerry agreed a mother's right to "choose" stopped at her baby's delivery. The bill also passed overwhelmingly in the House. NARAL went neutral on it. Abortion enthusiasts publicly agreed that fighting BAIPA would appear extreme. President Bush signed BAIPA into law in 2002.
But in Illinois, the state version of BAIPA repeatedly failed, thanks in large part to then-state Sen. Barack Obama. Obama worried aloud that legislation protecting live aborted babies might infringe on women's rights or abortionists' rights.
In 2003, as chairman of the next Senate committee to which BAIPA was sent, Obama stopped it from even getting a hearing, shelving it to die much like babies were still being shelved to die in Illinois hospitals and abortion clinics.
BAIPA passed in 2005.........after Obama left the Illinois Senate.
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Once in the WH, the Obama abortion bloodbath began.
<><> He has officially approved the first instance of taxpayer funded abortions under the new national government-run health care program. This is the kind of abortion funding the pro-life movement warned about when Congress considered the bill.
<><> The Obama Administration will give Pennsylvania $160 million to set up a new high-risk insurance program under a provision of the federal health care legislation enacted in March. It has quietly approved a plan submitted by an appointee of pro-abortion Governor Edward Rendell under which the new program will cover any abortion that is legal in Pennsylvania.
<><> The high-risk pool program is one of the new programs created by the sweeping health care legislation, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, President Obama signed into law on March 23. The law authorizes $5 billion in federal funds for the program, which will cover as many as 400,000 people when it is implemented nationwide.
<><> The Obama Administration will give Pennsylvania $160 million in federal tax funds, which weve discovered will pay for insurance plans that cover any legal abortion, said Douglas Johnson, legislative director for the National Right to Life Committee. Johnson told LifeNews.com: This is just the first proof of the phoniness of President Obamas assurances that federal funds would not subsidize abortion but it will not be the last.
One of Obamas first legislative achievements was to include a provision, within the 2009-2010 military budget, prosecuting pastors who preach hatred. Lets say your pastor preaches on Romans 1st chapter which denounces homosexuality. Someone happens to walk in your church during the sermon and hears the message. Then he/she commits a crime against someone who happens to be a homosexual. Not only is the bad guy prosecuted but your preacher can be as well.
<><> Obama got help from Pelosi and Reed for this verbiage. This is the first time any president signed such a provision. I would ask your preacher is he is aware of this provision in the military budget and the fact that he voted for someone who is willing to send him to jail.
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<><> A federal probe was requested by three high ranking lawmakers with congressional oversight responsibilities into whether the Obama Administration broke federal laws by promoting a proposed constitution that radically changes abortion policy in Kenya.
<><> Empowered by Obama, the ACLU Demands NY Investigate Catholic Hospitals Refusing Life-saving Abortions........
<><> Obama DOJ nominee Dawn Johnsen saw a great danger to liberty in laws enacted to protect babies in the womb...... it was OK to make such laws to protect the interests of the woman carrying unborn child -- or to protect whatever interest the baby may have retroactively in its fetal existence if it is ever born alive -- but it was not OK to make such laws in the interest of the unborn child itself.
Thanks for the info.
I have to rant here a lil’ bit.
This entire thread has upset me so much that I’m not sure how I will sleep tonite. I have reached overload on all the evil surrounding us & it’s to the point where I have not even watched secular TV in I can’t tell you when. I only tune into EWTN because it’s like a retreat for me. I spend my days off from work going to Mass & adoration. I guess in doing all of that I have deluded myself into forgetting the crap that surrounds us. And the river of evil streaming from this White House.
I need to go pray now. You all are in my prayers & certainly I will pray for this man in Kansas, as well as all others who are fighting the good fight.
Dr. Kermit B. Gosnell's killing chamber. The Women's Medical Society,
Philadelphia, as of Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2010. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
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A raid on Dr. Kermit B. Gosnell's chamber of horrors, Philadelphia, turned up blood on the floor and parts of aborted fetuses displayed in jars. "People were practicing without a license. A non-licensed person was administering drugs. The conditions were horrific, uncleanly, just abysmal," a board spokeswoman told ABC News.
Prosecutors believe Gosnell's Philadelphia abortion clinic frequently delivered late-term babies alive. The Philadelphia abortionist then severed their spines with scissors. The fetal bodies, along with staff lunches were stored in refrigerators at the filthy Philadelphia facility. Tiny baby feet, prosecutors said, were discovered in specimen jars, lined up in a macabre collection. (Excerpt) Read more at catholic.org ...
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EDITORIAL: Infanticide for hire--Complete ban on federal subsidy for abortion is long overdue
The Washington Times ^ | January 24, 2011
FR Posted January 24, 2011 by jazusamo
The horrors of termination of human life for profit were exposed Wednesday as murder charges were filed against practitioners at the Women's Medical Society abortion clinic in West Philadelphia. The grand jury's report provided descriptions too gruesome to reprint beyond the summary statement, "It was a baby charnel house."
The facility belonged to Dr. Kermit B. Gosnell, whose alleged primary goal was to maximize the number of procedures performed at the lowest possible cost. Corners were apparently cut by having nonprofessionals do the bulk of the work in unsanitary conditions.
According to Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams, same-day service was available, no matter how late the term, for mostly minority women seeking to end their pregnancies. Documents show the clinic encouraged late-term procedures because the price tag increased from $330 in the 12th week of pregnancy to $1,625 in the 24th. Beyond that, prices rose as high as $3,000, for an annual revenue of $1.8 million.
Such late-term abortions are horrendous, illegal procedures. Evidence suggests that the clinic would induce labor and then kill the newborn after birth. The clinic termed this as "ensuring fetal demise," but few would disagree that this was infanticide...(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ..
Liz, you are an encyclopedia on so many subjects. You are a real asset to this site.
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