Posted on 12/22/2006 12:23:03 PM PST by indcons
WICHITA, Kan. — Kansas' attorney general, a vocal abortion opponent, charged a well-known abortion provider with illegally performing late-term abortions, but a Sedgwick County judge on Friday threw out the charges after less than a day.
Judge Paul W. Clark dismissed the charges against Tiller after Sedgwick County District Attorney Nola Foulston said her office had not been consulted by Kline.
Clark signed his one-page order only hours after Kline's complaint against Tiller was unsealed.
Attorney General Phill Kline's office did not immediately return calls seeking comment. Kline lost his re-election bid in November and leaves office in three weeks.
Most of the 30 misdemeanor counts Kline filed against Dr. George Tiller involve abortions performed on patients 17 or younger, including a 10-year-old, according to the criminal complaint unsealed Friday in Sedgwick County District Court.
Tiller's clinic, known for being one of the few in the country to perform late-term abortions, has been a high-profile target of anti-abortion protesters for decades. The clinic was bombed in 1985, and Tiller was shot in both arms by a protester in 1993.
Kline has been investigating whether Tiller and other abortion providers performed illegal late-term abortions in Kansas or failed to report suspected child abuse as required by law.
He waged a two-year legal battle before finally this year obtaining the records of 90 patients from Tiller's Wichita clinic and a clinic operated in Overland Park by Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri.
Since the election, abortion rights activists have expected him to move against Tiller and perhaps Planned Parenthood, as well.
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You're one of them, aren't you? Do you honestly think that any of the millions of oppressed people who looked at Lady Liberty with such awe could even have imagined that their descendants would someday equate freedom with baby-butchery???? You and your libertarian buddies are living proof that this country has gone to hell.
Those who would deny others the freedom to live their lives must not have enough to do in their own.
This fiend even provides "baptism" services for the children he kills.
I don't even want to link anything about it at the moment, it's just too sickening, but you can easily search for it.
You and your kind would have partied in the shadows of Auschwitz.
>> ... and Tiller was shot in both arms by a protester in 1993.
Is this an instance of bad aim or poor judgment?
Congratulations. You played the Nazi card. You lose.
Guess what. It happens all the time in the WoD. Adjudicated and approved long since.
"Is this an instance of bad aim or poor judgment?'
Nah. Just social conservatism by other means.
Nice job, Godwin.
I can't even wrap my mind around the fact that I am reading this statement on a 'PRO-GOD, PRO-LIFE' forum, on an thread discussing an ABORTIONIST (and those who support him) who DENIES BABIES THE FREEDOM TO LIVE THEIR LIVES, and that this statement is directed against PRO-LIFE FREEPERS who would put an end to this butchery.
Is this an instance of bad aim or poor judgment?
Either way that "protester" deserves a mulligan.
"It does sound like an invasion of privacy to grab medical records of private citizens without their consent. It looks like we had a nice crackdown against executive activism here by the judicial branch...interesting.
If a doctor was willing to certify each of the abortions was legit, then that met the law, from my understanding...nothing to base this on. But IANAL."
What about children who are under age? Can a doctor that does nothing but abortions really verify that the childs parents knew and approved?
The issue here was solely whether or not statutory rapes were being covered up by adult men who fathered babies with underage girls.
Agreed. I think this is rampant.
But it doesn't seem to be the main focus of the investigation in the article...
Kline has been investigating whether Tiller and other abortion providers performed illegal late-term abortions in Kansas or failed to report suspected child abuse as required by law. Earlier this year, he obtained the records of 90 patients from Tiller's clinic and a clinic operated by Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri.
Under Kansas law, if a woman wants to obtain an abortion after the 22nd week of her pregnancy, a doctor must first determine whether the fetus can survive outside the womb. If the fetus is viable, the procedure can be used only to preserve her physical or mental health.
None of the abortions involved a late-term procedure opponents call "partial birth" abortion, Kline said. The charges involve situations in which Tiller cannot demonstrate that a woman faced permanent damage to a major bodily function, or Tiller's conclusion that some patients' mental health would be harmed if they did not have abortions, Kline said.
"His disregard for the Constitution he allegedly serves is appalling (not just here, where he files charges that he had to know would be immediately tossed, but in many other cases). I am glad he has been bounced."
Disregard for the Constitution? He had subpeonas for those 90 records. That means a judge signed off on them being turned over based on the evidence Kline showed the judge.
What part of the Constitution do you think was disregarded?
I thought SCOTUS told us that all abortions were legal, and as American as apple pie. What am I missing?
"A 10 year old being pregnant is prima facie evidence of rape. Why are you uninterested in the rape of a 10 year old?"
very simple, she is a liberal dem that never heard of an abortion she did not like.
I can not understand why we can not get rid of her. I don't remember the last time anyone even ran against her.
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