Posted on 02/16/2011 8:29:37 AM PST by freedomwarrior998
TOPEKA, Kansas, February 15, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Kermit Gosnell’s “house of horrors” led a Pennsylvania grand jury last month to demand why state officials did nothing to investigate, let alone stop the Philadelphia abortionist’s uninterrupted spree of late-term abortions, infanticide, and a host of alleged criminal acts.
But in Kansas, a very different scenario is unfolding, one that pro-life activists plan to expose in a webcast Tuesday night. State officials are seeking to strip the law license of former Attorney General Phill Kline for pursuing his criminal case against Planned Parenthood’s cover-up of child rape, the only case of its kind against the abortion giant in U.S. history.
Next week, a three-judge panel of the Kansas Board for Discipline of Attorneys will hear charges against Kline, the state’s chief prosecutor from 2003-2007, brought against him by the Kansas Disciplinary Administrator’s Office. The two count complaint alleges that Kline committed professional misconduct during his investigation of Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri’s Overland Park clinic and late-term abortionist George Tiller.
The complaint says Kline should have recused himself from the Tiller investigation on account of his pro-life convictions, and that he lied to the Kansas Supreme Court, misled a Johnson County grand jury, and discussed the ongoing Tiller case on the national talk show program “The O’Reilly Factor.”
Disciplinary Administrator Stan Hazlett filed the case against Kline on January 14, and affirmed the panel’s most recent decision not to allow Kline’s attorneys a three month extension to review the case. The 8-day trial is scheduled to commence on February 21, and conclude on March 2, although it could go longer.
“I think it’s really important to get this thing going,” said Hazlett, as quoted by the Capitol Journal. “We’re ready to go.”
However, Hazlett’s charges of misconduct against Kline are the same charges that Hazlett’s own team of investigators concluded on May 21, 2008 had no merit.
The 21-page report submitted by S. Lucky DeFries, investigator for Coffman, DeFries & Nothern, and Mary Beth Mudrick, investigator for Topeka’s Office of the City Attorney, found “no probable cause” in the charges against Kline. Both DeFries and Mudrick attested that they spent 55 hours in their efforts examining the allegations against Kline.
While Hazlett, an appointee of the Kansas Supreme Court, pushes ahead with the endeavor to disbar Kline, the very process is expected to bring to light how and why Kline filed criminal charges against the Johnson County Planned Parenthood: 107 criminal counts, including 23 felonies, some of them illegal late-term abortions. Judge James Vano of Johnson County determined in September 2008 that the evidence showed there was “probable cause” of Planned Parenthood’s illegal activity, green-lighting Kline’s prosecution of the abortion giant’s Kansas subsidiary.
Kline obtained the evidence by subpoenas over a two-year period as part of an investigation into the organization’s failure to report child rape.
Ironically, Planned Parenthood’s role in covering up such abuse has recently entered the national spotlight: stings conducted by undercover journalists last month with the pro-life group Live Action have exposed a number of Planned Parenthood clinic workers in multiple states acting as willing accomplices in covering up sexual abuse of children.
As attorney general (2003-2007), and later Johnson County District Attorney (2007-2009), Kline obtained evidence of Planned Parenthood abuse cover-up as part of broader efforts to crack down on child sexual predators in the state.
Kline’s office noted in 2003 that they received reports of child sexual abuse from reports of child victims becoming pregnant, or giving birth, but no reports from child victims having abortion – even though public records showed that on average 100 girls 15 and under had abortions every year. The legal age of consent in Kansas is 16.
Kline’s investigation uncovered that Planned Parenthood responded to his request for information by manufacturing false documents, changing sonogram results to make it appear that the unborn children were not viable, performing illegal late-term abortions on viable unborn children, and other evidence showing statutory rape cover-up.
What followed was a long-drawn out battle with Planned Parenthood, and Kline’s efforts to hold the abortion provider accountable to law until he left the Johnson County district attorney office in 2009, having lost a GOP primary bid to challenger Paul Morrison.
Morrison has not yet pursued the 107 criminal charges prepared by Kline against Planned Parenthood. There is speculation that the district attorney is awaiting the outcome of the case against Kline before taking action.
Kline is expected to mount a vigorous defense against the efforts to revoke his law license.
If efforts to disbar Kline are successful, Kline’s pro-life defenders believe this may discourage prosecutors from pursuing any criminal charges against abortion providers suspected of engaging in illegal activity.
More information is being made available in a webcast at 9pm EST Tuesday night, featuring pro-life leaders such as Lila Rose of Live Action and David Bereit of 40 Days for Life, as well as Kansas Secretary of State and Constitutional Law Professor Kris Kobach, and U.S. Rep. Tim Huelskamp of Kansas.
If efforts to disbar Kline are successful, Kline’s pro-life defenders believe this may discourage prosecutors from pursuing any criminal charges against abortion providers suspected of engaging in illegal activity.The words "sick society" don't begin to cover this situation.
What pigs!!!
Where is Gov. Brownback in all this? Che fire this scumbag abortion vampire, Hazlett, or threaten to dismiss the Board?
Where is Gov. Brownback in all this? Can’t he fire this scumbag abortion vampire, Hazlett, or threaten to dismiss the Board? Or at least throw his weight into this to intimidate them into bailing out?
The Libs in Kansas, ans across the border in Kansas City, Missouri hate, and I mean HATE, Phil Kline with a passion. They’ve stooped to so many lows trying to discredit/defame him. There inability to do any lasting damage to him is funny.
If you know anyone who can attend to support Phill, it would be great. These PP puppets think they can destroy Phill in a quiet hearing. We want to have some eyes and ears there, watching and listening.
Nope.
Hazlett and his entire organization report directly to the Kansas Supreme Court, who is solely responsible for the state's legal system including licensing of attorneys.
The judicial branch is completely independent of and coequal with both the executive and legislative branches of government.
Furthermore, the legal disciplinary board is funded entirely by licensing fees paid by lawyers.
Because of these facts, there is absolutely nothing that Brownback or any other politician can do about the matter.
Planned Parenthood is a billion dollar business that rakes in 1/3 of its budget from state and federal govt grants. Congress has interrogated banking, energy, health insurance, tobacco, and oil execs — treating them like serial killers. When will they finally defund a corrupt industry that has real blood on its hands?
PLANNED PARENTHOOD'S 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.
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 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 govt fraud -- using tax funding to aid and abet illegal acts.
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DEFUND PLANNED PARENTHOOD NOW Urge Congress to move the Title X Abortion Provider Prohibition Act to the floor for immediate consideration. It's an outrage that taxpayers are forced to subsidize this oddball organization's peculiar fixation w/ genitalia.
Hearing starts at 8:00 tomorrow morning and every morning thereafter through March 2nd. 16 chairs for observers. We will fill the foyer as well. We will not allow this to be done in the cover of darkness!
The phone # for the Ethics Administrator is: 785 296 2486
I had to get that from a FR thread. I have been trying to get to the website of the Kansas State Board of Discipline for Attorneys and it has been down since at least Saturday.
If you are going to try to attend, you might check with this person about the start time. In fact, talking to a couple of people in the lobby of the hearing, several said they had tried to contact this person with questions about the hearing and she had been an absolute peach!/s
So, even if you aren't going to attend, maybe you could just call and chat!
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