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An excellent article from the Associated Press was published on Sunday in the Topeka Capital-Journal concerning District Attorney Phill Kline’s attempts to prosecute Planned Parenthood. We have posted the article below in its entirety for your convenience.

For those of you who may not be following this story closely, or are just becoming aware, please CLICK HERE to listen to a brief audio clip (2:48) that will fill you in on the background of this increasingly complex case.

At 9:00 AM on Wednesday, the Judge Tatum will rule whether or not to delay this case until the KS Supreme Court decided it if will take the evidence upon which this case is built away from the prosecutor, who is attempting to enforce Kansas law.

If you believe, as we do, that justice is being thwarted in the prosecution of Planned Parenthood, please contact Judge Tatum and demand that he allow this case to proceed with out further impediment.

Judge Stephen Tatum
913-715-3790
(This number will reach Tatum’s administrative assistant Kristie Hudson, with whom you can leave your message.)
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http://www.cjonline.com/stories/051808/kan_280249229.shtml

Dispute threatens Kline’s case

The Associated Press
Published Sunday, May 18, 2008

An extraordinary legal fight over patients’ medical records has prompted the Kansas Supreme Court to prevent a key witness from appearing in a criminal case against an abortion clinic.

In an added twist, the witness is a lower court judge who once supervised prosecutor Phill Kline’s investigation of the clinic, operated by Planned Parenthood in suburban Kansas City, Kan. Also, the state’s attorney general has sided with the clinic in its records dispute against Kline.

The dispute threatens to delay Kline’s prosecution of the clinic on 107 criminal charges, including falsifying records and performing illegal late-term abortions. A hearing is scheduled for May 27 and 28 to determine whether the case goes to trial in Johnson County, but the clinic hopes to delay the case until the Supreme Court settles questions about the records.

Even before Kline, the Johnson County district attorney, filed charges against Comprehensive Health in Overland Park, the clinic asked the Supreme Court to intervene. It hopes to force him to return edited copies of records from 29 patients’ files, which are key evidence in his case.

Meanwhile, Attorney General Steve Six has a separate case pending with the high court against the judge who is Kline’s witness.

Recently unsealed documents show that in April, the judge notified the Supreme Court that Kline had subpoenaed him, ordering him to produce documents — including medical records in his possession. Within minutes, a deputy attorney general sought an order blocking the subpoena, and the court granted it the following day.

Kline, an anti-abortion Republican, is frustrated with the potential delay in his criminal case.

Fellow abortion opponents believe the attorney general’s office is working to protect the clinic from prosecution because of abortion rights advocates’ support in previous political campaigns.

“It’s an obstruction of justice at every level,” said Troy Newman, president of the anti-abortion group Operation Rescue.

But attorney general spokeswoman Ashley Anstaett said Six wants to allow the Supreme Court to settle the question of who ought to have patients’ records and to protect the documents from being circulated more widely than they have been. Planned Parenthood’s attorneys contend Kline’s zeal for a “ridiculous” prosecution has forced them to take unusual steps to fight him.

“How much taxpayer money has he wasted in this unnecessary effort?” said Pedro Irigonegaray, a Topeka attorney representing the clinic. “The reason we have been successful from the beginning is not because of our brilliance but because the law is on our side.”

Both Planned Parenthood’s case and Six’s lawsuit against the judge were filed directly with the Supreme Court last year, under seal. The high court unsealed both earlier this month, making hundreds of pages of documents public.

The Supreme Court rarely seals cases, but much about the two lawsuits before the justices is extraordinary.

It’s unusual for a district court judge to be called as a witness in a criminal case, and it’s unusual for the target of a criminal investigation in Kansas to sue the prosecutor. Kline once was attorney general himself. Paul Morrison, the abortion rights Democrat who ousted him in 2006, was forced to resign over a sex scandal, leading to Six’s appointment this year.

Kline began his investigation of Planned Parenthood in 2003, while attorney general. He did so under the supervision of Shawnee County District Judge Richard Anderson, so that witnesses and documents could be subpoenaed.

Planned Parenthood eventually was forced to turn over the 29 patients’ files to Anderson — with the records edited so that information identifying patients was removed. Anderson still has possession of his copies, refusing requests from the attorney general’s office to return them to the clinic.

Before Kline left the attorney general’s office, he was appointed to fill a coming vacancy in the Johnson County prosecutor’s office. In another twist, Morrison, the new attorney general, was leaving that job.

In his final days in the state job, Kline arranged to have copies of the Planned Parenthood records transferred to Johnson County so that they would be waiting for him when he took over there. Anderson has told the Supreme Court he gave Kline permission beforehand, but both Planned Parenthood and Six contend the transfer wasn’t legally permitted.

However, Anderson is a potential witness in Kline’s criminal case for another reason.

According to a recently unsealed filing by Anderson’s attorney with the Supreme Court, Kline came to him in May 2007, raising questions about whether some of the records produced by Planned Parenthood to Anderson were authentic.

Anderson later testified publicly that he was concerned enough that, on his own, he went to a police handwriting expert. Later, in a filing with the Supreme Court, Anderson’s attorney labeled the records in his possession “suspect.”

In an affidavit Kline filed with the Supreme Court, also recently unsealed, he said, “It was visually obvious that some documents had been manufactured.” His criminal case against Planned Parenthood includes 23 felony counts of making a false writing.

In June 2007, Planned Parenthood filed its lawsuit against Kline with the Supreme Court. Three weeks later, Morrison, then attorney general, wrote Planned Parenthood’s attorneys a letter saying his review of evidence showed no wrongdoing by the clinic.

Before he wrote the letter, unsealed court documents show, his office knew about the issue Kline had raised. In fact, an assistant attorney general had dismissed the concern in a letter to Kline, saying that the “new” documents produced contained the same information as documents on file with the state — suggesting the clinic wasn’t trying to hide information.

And Irigonegaray said: “My client denies any allegation of impropriety regarding those records.”

Morrison sought to have the records returned to Planned Parenthood. When Anderson refused, the attorney general filed his separate lawsuit with the Supreme Court.

Kline filed his criminal charges in October 2007. Anderson testified regarding his concerns about the records’ authenticity in a January pretrial hearing in Johnson County in the criminal case.

As a decision on whether that case goes to trial approached, Kline subpoenaed Anderson. It commanded him to “appear personally” for the hearing and listed documents he was to bring, including his copies of medical records. It warned, “Fail not under penalty of the law.”

According to unsealed Supreme Court records, Anderson told the attorney general’s office of the subpoena on April 2. Then, he filed a notice with the Supreme Court on April 3, at 4:35 p.m.

Five minutes later, Deputy Attorney General Michael Leitch, on Six’s behalf, filed a request for a “protective order,” mentioning the medical records.

“Now the documents appear to be on the move again, threatening this court’s jurisdiction,” Leitch wrote.

The next day, the court issued a single-page order telling Anderson to retain “exclusive possession” of his records and not to appear “until further order of this court.”

Last week, Irigonegaray filed a motion in Johnson County seeking to have the criminal case put on hold until the Supreme Court rules on the two cases before it. A hearing on that request is scheduled for 9:30 a.m. Wednesday in district court.

Tainted Grand Jury Disbands Without Indicting Planned Parenthood

Refusal to fully investigate is a slap in the face to the 6,400 voters who requested the investigation of illegal abortions and other crimes

Olathe, KS – A citizen-called grand jury that was empanelled to investigate a Planned Parenthood in Overland Park, Kansas, on seven allegations of criminal misconduct disbanded late Monday without issuing an indictment after unanimously withdrawing the only subpoena they issued in the so-called investigation.

The proceedings were tainted by misconduct on the parts of the Judge Kevin Moriarty and special prosecutors, that included improper backroom deals cut with Planned Parenthood attorneys that denied critical evidence to the grand jury as a whole. The secrecy of the grand jury was compromised at every turn.

“The people of Johnson County should be offended that the grand jury made such a mockery of this investigation,” said Operation Rescue President Troy Newman “There is no way that they could have possibly investigated all seven allegations that the voters empanelled them to investigate without inspecting any documents from Planned Parenthood.”

“It’s shocking that Planned Parenthood was allowed to direct their own investigation and dictate to the grand jury what evidence would be provided, and even how they would be allowed to view the evidence,” said Newman. “The entire process was corrupted, and Judge Moriarty is responsible for that corruption. We are considering the possibility of filing ethics charges against him.”

Moriarty refused to allow members of the grand jury to inspect 16 subpoenaed abortion records that had already had all patient-identifying information redacted, citing bogus privacy concerns. Instead, he personally took custody of the records and prepared a “spreadsheet” summary of information in the records. The grand jury was not allowed to view the evidence in context.

The L.I.F.E. Coalition, consisting of Operation Rescue, Concerned Women for America, and Women Influencing the Nation, led the petition process that convened the grand jury. The petition requested an investigation of Planned Parenthood for performing illegal late term abortions, failure to report child sex abuse, failure to provide legally mandated standard of care, filing false information with the state, illegal trafficking of fetal tissue, failure to comply with parental consent requirements, and the failure to enforce the required 24 hour waiting period.

“There’s no way the public can take the conclusion of this grand jury seriously. We are considering our legal options to insure that true justice is done,” said Newman.

Planned Parenthood still faces 107 criminal charges filed by the District Attorney’s office in October of last year.

“Pimp My Court” - Kansas Supreme Court Further Delays Tiller Grand Jury

Operation Rescue Files 11th Hour Motions To Remove District Attorney, AG From Abortion Grand Jury

Wichita, KS – Operation Rescue filed two motions in Sedgwick County District Court late today to block District Attorney Nola Foulston and disgraced Attorney General Paul Morrison from participating in a grand jury set to convene tomorrow to investigate late-term abortionist George R. Tiller.

“We are seeking to intervene to insure that the will of the 7,500 citizens of Sedgwick County who demanded the grand jury is respected, and that the integrity of this grand jury remains intact,” said Operation Rescue President Troy Newman, who filed the motions along with Mark Geitzen, who represents the petition signers.

Kansas allows for citizens to petition the courts for grand jury investigations. The petition that was approved to convene the Tiller grand jury included a clause that demanded that neither Foulston nor Attorney General Paul Morrison, both supporters of abortion, be allowed to participate in this grand jury because of their ties to Tiller.

Morrison has since resigned as Attorney General amid accusations that he attempted to use a former employee, with whom he was sexually involved, to gather information about a previous Tiller prosecution and other abortion cases for the purpose of illegally influencing them.

“It has become obvious that the Attorney General’s office is tainted with the appearance, at least, of impropriety. The District Attorney’s office, which has repeatedly acquiesced to Morrison in matters pertaining to Tiller, is now also tainted by that bad judgment and the appearance of collusion,” Newman said.

“This is an eleventh-hour, last-ditch effort to insure that there is no hanky-panky with this grand jury,” said Newman. “We are asking for an investigation into illegal late-term abortions on viable babies. If criminal abortions are taking place, it means innocent lives are being taken that should have instead been protected. That is a very serious matter - one literally of life and death. As long as Foulston remains at the helm of this investigation, we cannot have any confidence in the process.”

Operation Rescue will conduct a public prayer for justice at 9 AM on Tuesday, January 8, 2008, outside the Sedgwick County Courthouse where the grand jury is set to convene for the first time.

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[Please take a moment to read this important investigative report from Operation Rescue. K-TIP urges you to contact Sebelius and let her know that the next Attorney General must have no ties to abortion blood money! Her contact information is included at the end of the article.

Can A New Kansas AG Be Found Without Ties To Abortion Blood Money?

Research into potential candidates shows that may be harder than it sounds

Topeka, KS – Democratic Gov. Kathleen Sebelius, an avid supporter of radical abortion policy, must now appoint a replacement for disgraced Attorney General Paul Morrison, who resigned on Friday amid a growing scandal involving illicit sex and allegations of illegal interference in abortion criminal cases.

But Sebelius’ record of poor judgment regarding political appointments, and a list of possible replacements that are all firmly in the pocket of the abortion cartel casts doubt on whether Sebelius is even capable of leading the state out of the current corruption crisis.

Operation Rescue is adamant that the new Attorney General must not have ties to abortionists or their campaign contributions in order to insure the integrity of ongoing criminal cases and investigations.

“Justice cannot tolerate the appointment of an Attorney General whose puppet-strings are held by the abortionists currently under indictment and criminal investigations. Sebelius has exhibited poor judgment in the past. After all, she personally recruited Morrison. She even recently appointed one of George Tiller’s lawyers to the Kansas Sentencing Commission while a political contribution he made was under investigation by the Ethics Commission,” said Operation Rescue President Troy Newman. “The next Attorney General must be untainted by the abortion cartel in order to restore public confidence, which has been shattered by the Morrison sex and abortion corruption scandal.”

But finding a Democratic replacement without ties to abortionists may not be so easy. Most of the possible candidates mentioned in the media are heavily tainted with connections to the abortion cartel, especially George R. Tiller of Wichita. Any one of their appointments would only continue suspicions that Democrats are attempting to interfere with abortion prosecutions in order to protect one of their main sources of campaign funding.

Names currently mentioned in the media as being under possible consideration include:

Chris Biggs, Kansas Securities Commissioner with a history of receiving $250,000 of Tiller campaign contributions during his failed bid for Attorney General in 2002. $153,000 of campaign cash flowed from abortionist George Tiller’s pocket into the Biggs campaign in the last 10 days of that election, after the final reporting deadline. This last-minute influx of abortion money was virtually unknown to the people of Kansas until the following January in what was considered a deceitful effort to hide Tiller’s influence from voters.

Dan Lykins, a Topeka attorney and former treasurer for the Kansas Democratic Party and a myriad of Democratic Political Action Committees. Lykins was considered the architect of a series of complex campaign money transfers designed to confuse and deceive the voters about the origin of huge amounts of campaign cash pumped into the Kansas Democratic Party and pro-abortion political campaigns by abortionist Tiller during the 2004 election cycle.

Nola Foulston, Sedgwick County District Attorney and personal friend of Tiller’s. Foulston intervened in December, 2006, when then Attorney General Phill Kline filed 30 criminal charges against Tiller. Foulston had the charges immediately dismissed on questionable jurisdictional grounds. However, Foulston told Operation Rescue on Friday that she is not interested in the AG’s job.

U.S. Representative Dennis Moore, a radical supporter of abortion. He earned a 100% Pro-Choice rating by the National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL). His votes have protected Tiller’s ability to recruit late-term abortion customers, especially minors, from all over the United States.

Currently Tiller faces 19 criminal charges of illegal late-term abortion and a grand jury that is set to begin a new investigation into additional allegations of criminal conduct beginning January 8, 2008. The 19 charges filed by Morrison’s office are considered weaker charges than the 30 counts filed a year ago by Morrison’s predecessor, Phill Kline.

Planned Parenthood of Overland Park faces 107 criminal charges filed by Kline, who is now the Johnson County District Attorney. Planned Parenthood is also the subject of a grand jury investigation that began on December 10. However, Morrison claimed his investigation showed Planned Parenthood did not violate the law.

“Morrison was a major stumbling block to the enforcement state abortion laws. The new Attorney General must be willing to revisit Morrison’s dubious abortion investigation conclusions and enforce the laws they way they were intended,” said Newman.

The appointment of the new Attorney General will have national implications. Any conviction of Planned Parenthood could result in the termination of over 300 million Federal tax dollars that are responsible for keeping open the doors of the nation’s largest abortion provider. A conviction of Tiller would significantly affect the abortion industry nationwide, since many late-term abortionists take cover under Tiller’s vast political influence.

“The people being mentioned as possible replacements for Morrison are completely unacceptable and will only compound the appearance of corruption when it comes to abortion politics in Kansas,” said Newman. “The appointment of another abortion crony can only drag the corruption scandal straight into the governor’s office and cause the ethics investigations to broaden. Will Sebelius again put the protection of abortionists above the need to enforce Kansas abortion law? Needless to say, we will be watching this very closely.”

Please contact Gov. Kathleen Sebelius and insist that she appoint an Attorney General who has no ties to the abortion industry.

Gov. Kathleen Sebelius
Toll-Free Phone: 1-877-579-6757
E-mail: Click Here

OR Calls For Morrison Resignation Amid Sex/Abortion Corruption Scandal

Planned Parenthood grand jury to convene today as revelations surface of AG’s efforts to use his mistress to protect them

Topeka, KS – Kansas was rocked Sunday morning as sordid details of a sex scandal involving Attorney General Paul Morrison surfaced, and how he attempted to use that illicit sexual relationship to impede a political rival’s ongoing criminal investigations against a Planned Parenthood abortion clinic and late-term abortionist George R. Tiller.

In investigative report published in the Topeka Capital-Journal details a two-year sexual relationship between Morrison and Linda Carter, a former administrator in the Johnson County District Attorney’s office where Morrison worked prior to taking office as Attorney General in January. Morrison allegedly attempted to coerce Carter into spying on District Attorney Phill Kline’s abortion investigations, and asked her to share with him sensitive information about the cases.

According to the article, “Carter said in a signed statement that Morrison pressured her to make use of her position in the D.A.’s office to influence pending litigation involving Johnson County District Attorney Phill Kline.”

“This is not just about sex and abortion. This is about corruption manifested in the perverted use of sex and power for political advantage,” said Operation Rescue President Troy Newman. “Morrison’s obsessive desire to derail Kline’s investigations through the sleaziest of means indicates not only critically impaired judgment, but conduct that is absolutely unethical, immoral, and intolerable for a state’s ‘Top Cop.’ The integrity of the office has been destroyed.”

“Operation Rescue has long questioned Morrison’s ability uphold Kansas abortion laws, and has in the past called for him to step down. Now, in light of this new sex and abortion corruption scandal, we renew our demand for his immediate resignation,” said Newman.

Morrison refused to file charges against Planned Parenthood in June. Kline, later filed 107 criminal charges against the abortion clinic, including 23 felony counts. A citizen-called grand jury is scheduled to begin further investigations into Planned Parenthood’s alleged criminal activity today.

To further illustrate Morrison’s fixation over shielding Planned Parenthood, Morrison joined on their side in a sealed Mandamus action before the Kansas Supreme Court. The abortion clinic’s suit against Kline involves abortion records, which are the basis for the current criminal charges. Kline moved to unseal the case on Thursday.

During the campaign last year, another woman came forward and told reporters how Morrison attempted to initiate a similar sexual relationship with her. Her rebuffs resulted in her being forced from her job.

“We have to wonder, given Morrison’s pattern of sexual indiscretions, if there isn’t a receipt at these abortion clinics with his name on it that he didn’t want discovered by political rivals. That would certainly explain his willingness to go to any lengths to derail the investigations,” Newman said.

Read the Topeka Capital-Journal article.

Please consider taking a prayer shift at Tiller's Wichita abortion mill, or the abortion clinic closest to you, between now and November 4, and be a part of this historic prayer effort to stop abortion in Kansas. To learn more, please visit our website at www.operationrescue.org.

TILLER CHARGED WITH 19 CRIMINAL COUNTS

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Shocking Revelation: Late-Abortions Given So Women Could Go To Rock Concerts

“I saw no file that justified abortions,” says Psychiatry Expert.

Wichita, KS – A Psychologist who has examined over thirty medical records subpoenaed from abortionist George R. Tiller, says women were given late-term abortions on viable babies so they would not have to miss rock concerts and sporting events.

Dr. Paul McHugh revealed last week that he examined medical records that showed women who were 26 to 30 weeks into their pregnancies were being given abortions by Tiller for “trivial” birth control reasons under the guise of “mental health” concerns that could not be substantiated by the records.

Dr. McHugh is a Harvard educated psychologist who headed the Department of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins Hospital for 26 years and serves on the President’s Council on Bioethics. He was asked to review the abortion records by former Attorney General Phill Kline to determine if the mental health diagnoses were psychiatrically justified.

Dr. McHugh stated that the records “highlighted certain kinds of things, which…were sometimes of a most trivial sort, from saying that, ‘I won’t be able to go to concerts,’ or ‘I won’t be able to take part in sports,’ to more serious ones, such as, ‘I don’t want to give my child up for adoption.’”

Of Tiller’s psychiatric diagnoses, Dr. McHugh stated, “He had mostly social reasons for thinking that the late-term abortions were suitable…Again, these ideas that he was suggesting – these were not psychiatric ideas, these were social ideas that he is proposing. And by the way, again, there was nothing to back these things up in a substantial way.”

When asked if Dr. McHugh could find even one file that justified a late-term abortion by demonstrating that the woman would suffer substantial and irreversible harm as required by Kansas law, he responded emphatically, “I saw no file that justified abortion on that basis.”

“The people of Kansas have written these laws. Viable fetuses should not be aborted unless there’s a substantial and irreversible condition that the pregnancy will produce. Well, when a psychiatric diagnosis is brought forth, I think that people should understand that that requires a heck of a lot more than I found in these records,” Dr. McHugh said.

“It doesn’t take a Harvard education to understand that missing a rock concert doesn’t ‘substantially and irreversibly’ impair a woman, physically or mentally,” said Troy Newman, President of Operation Rescue. “It is clear that Tiller is breaking the law at the cost of innocent lives. The public must rise up and say that enough is enough!”

Please continue to contact Attorney General Paul Morrison and ask him to charge Tiller for committing illegal late-term abortions.

Attorney General Paul Morrison
Phone: (785) 296-2215; Fax: (785) 296-6296
E-mail: general@ksag.org

View full 44-min. interview with Dr. McHugh and transcript.
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Unprofessional Conduct Complaint Filed Against KS Attorney General

Scandals continue to define Morrison’s controversial administration

Topeka, KS – May 10, 2007 - A private citizen has filed a formal complaint against Attorney General Paul J. Morrison with the Office of the Disciplinary Administrator for violating the rules of professional conduct that governs the conduct of Kansas attorneys. pmorrison2

The complaint centers on a press release posted on the Attorney General’s official website that announced the filing of criminal charges against a police major. However, Morrison failed to note that the man facing accusations is innocent until proved guilty, as required by the rules of conduct. Without such a statement in the public communiqué, the case against the man could be unfairly prejudiced.

Morrison’s political career has been plagued by controversy since he decided to switch parties to run for attorney general, causing the Republican Party Chairman Tim Shallenberger to question Morrison’s honesty.

During the campaign, former employee Kelly Summerlin came forward and revealed that she had endured sexual harassment from a drunken Morrison during an after-trial victory party. Summerlin was later fired from her job after rebuffing his advances.

Perhaps most controversial has been Morrison’s preferential treatment of abortionist George R. Tiller.

“Morrison also pledged to drop all investigations into abortion clinics if elected, and it appears he is keeping that campaign promise,” said Operation Rescue President Troy Newman.

When Tiller was charged with 30 criminal counts related to illegal late term abortions, Morrison responded on his second day in office by firing the special prosecutor assigned to the case. Morrison benefited from nearly $1 million in campaign phone calls and mailings made on his behalf by groups associated with Tiller.

While Morrison later promised to investigate Tiller and charge him if he discovered evidence of crimes, Morrison has yet to take action, even ignoring requests from the legislature to look into the matter, leading to accusations of corruption.

“The complaint filed today makes it clear that Morrison has a disregard for the rights of some, while ignoring the criminal conduct of others,” said Operation Rescue President Troy Newman. “This is not equal justice under the law. It is a ‘respecter of persons’ kind of injustice that endangers the ability of everyone to have confidence in the office of the Attorney General.”

Supporting Documents:
Complaint
Exhibit A – Morrison’s press release dated May 7, 2007
Exhibit B – Rule 3.6 of the Rules of Professional Conduct

Like father, like son: Tiller family criminal conduct spans seven decades

Wichita, KS - April 16, 2007 - Operation Rescue has uncovered three source documents that reveal a pattern of illegal abortions by the Tiller family of Wichita, Kansas, spanning seven decades.

"George Tiller himself has a documented pattern of disregard for the law across four decades," said Operation Rescue President Troy Newman. "It gives further urgency to the need to allow the criminal case filed against Tiller in December to move forward without further delay."

Late-term abortionist George R. Tiller has admitted in a signed statement that he has a history of committing illegal abortions.

A statement, released by Voices of Choice in July, 2005, regarding the impending appointment of a replacement for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor states in part, "As physicians who provided or facilitated abortions before Roe v. Wade, we saw the horrors of illegal abortion first-hand." Fourteen abortionists, including George R. Tiller, signed the statement. (Read full statement.)

In two other documents, an undated interview published by Voices of Choice and an article from the Wichita Eagle dated Sept. 8, 1991, Tiller describes in his own words that his father, Jack Tiller, provided illegal abortions for women in his family practice as far back as the 1940s. Tiller admits that his discovery of this fact inspired him to abandon a career in dermatology and pursue a career as an abortionist.

In December, 2006, George Tiller was charged with 30 counts related to the commission of illegal late-term abortions. Those charges were dismissed on dubious jurisdictional grounds, and stonewalling tactics have been employed by Attorney General Paul Morrison, including the firing of a special prosecutor, to keep the case out of court.

Meanwhile, witnesses say that illegal abortions continue at Tiller's Wichita late-term abortion mill, Women's Health Care Services.

One witness, sidewalk counselor Donna Lampkin, told Operation Rescue on March 23, 2007, that she was personally spoke to one woman who admitted that both she and her pre-born baby were perfectly healthy, but that she was seeking a late-term abortion at Tiller's WHCS solely due to financial reasons. This abortion violated K.S.A. 65-6703, which bans post-viability abortions, with narrow exceptions, financial considerations not being one of them.

On April 14, 2007, Dawn McClelland posted the following comment at ChargeTiller.com, a website supporting the reinstatement of criminal charges against Tiller:

As a director of a crisis pregnancy center, I have worked directly with women/girls who have gone to Tiller. One was 32 weeks pregnant, under the care of one of our doctors. Her health and the health of the baby were both good. Her family told her she would be disowned if she had the baby. She panicked. Planned Parenthood directed her to Tiller, where this perfectly healthy little baby was killed and the mother scarred for life. We are barbarians to let this happen.

"This information about Tiller's long history and continuing practice of committing illegal abortions establishes a pattern of criminality on Tiller's part," said Newman.

"These documents and eyewitness accounts also give us a glimpse into his frame of mind. Tiller returned to Wichita after his father's death and took up the family practice, following in his dad's footsteps. Now we see that the Tiller legacy includes violating the law by providing illegal abortions."

Operation Rescue believes that the documents show more that a casual disregard for Kansas Statutes. "They show a brazen contempt for the law as well as for the lives of his innocent victims," said Newman.

"Every man and woman in authority in Kansas who has blatantly ignored Tiller's illegal killing of viable babies has innocent blood on their hands. No amount of political payoffs is worth the lives of these precious children, or the bloodguilt that haunts the consciences of those who betrayed them. We appeal to Kansas authorities to stop this brutality, and immediately bring Tiller to justice in a court of law."

House Speaker Melvin Neufeld has the ability to move to reinstate criminal charges against George Tiller. Please urgently contact with your concerns:

House Speaker Melvin Neufeld
Phone: 620-335-5316
E-Mail: mneufeld@ink.org
Alternate E-mail: neufeld@house.state.ks.us

Morrison Disrespects Judges, Legislature; Lacks Credibility to Continue Tiller Case
Legislature urged to take immediate action to reinstate abortion charges

"Name one other case where two judges have found probable cause that has not been prosecuted," said Operation Rescue President Troy Newman. "Morrison is wasting tax-payer money on his own investigation, when the work has already been done. The evidence has been gathered, the witnesses have been interviewed, and now the only thing left is for Morrison to stand aside and stop obstructing the progress of a legitimate case whose merits have never been questioned."

"Because of his lack of action and dubious connections to Tiller, Morrison is not ethically qualified to pursue this case. The legislature has the authority to compel a prosecution, and we urge them to act immediately to bring this case to a court of law under a prosecutor without financial, political, or personal ties to Tiller," said Newman.

OR Responds As KS Speaker Shelves Effort To Pass Tiller Resolution

Public nationwide is urged to immediately express concerns.

Topeka, KS – March 30, 2007 – Kansas House Speaker Melvin Neufeld has backed off support for the resolution that would have required Attorney General Paul Morrison to reinstate criminal charges against late-term abortionist George Tiller of Wichita, indicating he will not act before April 25, if ever.

Neufeld withdrew allegedly to give Morrison, an abortion supporter, more time to review the records, even though the case, including all documentation, had already been prepared under the former Attorney General. Two judges have already ruled that there is probable cause to believe that Tiller committed 30 crimes related to illegal late-term abortions.

“We are disappointed that Neufeld has chosen politics over principle and the lives of innocent, viable babies that Kansas law was enacted to protect,” said Operation Rescue President Troy Newman.

“Mr. Neufeld’s lack of leadership is a betayal of the pro-life voters who elected him. This is perhaps the most important matter that he will deal with during his time in office – literally one of life or death. Now we have to ask if Neufeld is really pro-life, or is that just something he says to get elected? A real leader of character, upholding pro-life Republican values, would do everything in his power to ensure that the laws of Kansas are enforced, and would not be swayed by Morrison’s obvious stall tactics,” said Newman.

“I really doubt if Neufeld wants his political career defined by George Tiller, nor does he want to be remembered in disgrace as the man who turned his back on the illegal killing of viable babies,” continued Newman. “Fortunately, he still has time to redeem himself in the eyes of those who elected him. He can still show his quality by doing everything within his power to insure that Tiller is held accountable in a court of law. But time is running out. If Speaker Neufeld is truly pro-life, now is the time to act like it.”

“We are urgently asking every pro-life person across the nation to immediately call or e-mail Mr. Neufeld, even if they have already done so, and demand that he exercise every ounce of his authority to bring Tiller to justice,” said Newman. “We remember the Biblical story about the widow and the unjust judge. She sought justice to the extent that the judge granted her request just to get her out of his life. If that is what we have to do here, we will do it and not stop, because life has value, laws should be upheld, and injustice cannot be swept under the rug without devastating effects on us all.”

Urgently contact:
House Speaker Melvin Neufeld
Phone: 620-335-5316
E-Mail: mneufeld@ink.org
Alternate E-mail: neufeld@house.state.ks.us

Support For Resolution To Charge Abortionist Tiller Grows Nationwide

Public urged to ask House members pass the Tiller Resolution

Topeka, KS –March 15, 2007 – Support for a legislative resolution, which would order Attorney General Paul Morrison to charge and prosecute late-term abortionist George R. Tiller for committing illegal late-term abortions, is growing nationwide.

Operation Rescue came out publicly in support of the resolution on Wednesday. An Ohio-based website, ChargeTiller.com has collected over 1,200 signatures from all 50 states in the first 3 days of its existence in support of legislative action. Hundreds of e-mails have been sent to key House leaders asking them to act to bring Tiller to justice.

Efforts to pass the resolution to charge Tiller will be focused in the Kansas House, the branch of the legislature with the strongest pro-life sentiment. Kansas law gives the legislature authority to order the prosecution.

Tiller was charged with thirty criminal counts related to the commission of illegal late-term abortions by former Attorney General Phill Kline. The charges were dismissed on jurisdictional grounds at the request of District Attorney Nola Foulston, an abortion supporter. The case’s merits have never been questioned.

“Now is the time for us to raise our voices to the legislature and urge them to pass the Tiller Resolution,” said Operation Rescue President Troy Newman. “They have the authority to get this done, and with the Speaker’s support, this could easily be accomplished in a day or so.”

“We must remember that late-term babies – babies who could survive if birthed instead of aborted – are being killed at Tiller’s Wichita abortion mill, very likely in violation of the Kansas law,” said Newman. “Tiller needs to answer to these serious charges in court. Many legislators were elected to the House by pro-life constituents for just such a moment. Now it’s time for them to step up to the plate and show us their quality.”

For those outside Kansas contact:

Speaker of the House Melvin Neufeld
mneufeld@ink.org

Wichita Eagle Gets it Wrong; Morrison Funding from Abortion, Human Cloning Groups

The front page article of the Wichita Eagle today, titled “Who’s funding the races?” featured a photo of Jack Focht, a lawyer who gave $2,000.00 to Paul Morrison.

While some of Morrison's money came from car dealerships and criminal defense attorneys, Jack Focht is unquestionably NOT the big money behind Morrison’s campaign.

ProKanDo also infused large amounts of cash into a fundraiser held for Morrison in Washington D.C. As a result, many of ProKanDo’s and Morrison’s donors were from out of state. At the end of the last reporting cycle, Tiller gave $100,000.00 to ProKanDo.

This year, the Legislative Victory Fund for Districts 1 and 2 contributed over $80,000.00 to Morrison. The Kansas Democratic Party contributed $104,000.00 to Morrison. The Democratic Tallgrass 2000 Committee gave $17,000.00 to Morrison. All three organizations, directly or indirectly, have received mind-blowing amounts of money from abortionist George Tiller.

This huge money, ignored by the Kansas media, is shocking. It is negligent and irresponsible for the Wichita Eagle and the Kansas City Star to mask the true money behind Morrison’s politics.

Proponents of the horrifying human cloning Measure 2 in Missouri, James and Virginia Stowers, were directly responsible for a mass mailing against Kline and in favor of Sebelius and Morrison. The group listed on the mailing, Kansans for Lifesaving Cures, received $600,000.00 from the Stowers, who are attempting to ensure with Morrison’s election that Kansas is fertile ground for their next human experimentation plant. The Stowers, whose “medical research institute” wants to expand its live human embryonic experimentation, have reportedly funded those behind Measure 2 with $25 Million dollars.

James and Virginia Stowers, with their out-of-state money, also individually gave thousands of dollars to Paul Morrison.

This year, the cost of the election is high. Paul Morrison has announced his intention to halt the investigation into the medical records if elected. If the investigation is dropped, Tiller will walk away from possible charges of failure to report child rape and illegal abortions. Worse still, young children (as young as 10 years old) who have been trapped in situations of perpetual abuse will continue to be victimized without reprieve.

The records could also include incest, forcible rape and making a false writing.

There can be little question why Tiller is contributing so much money to Morrison, and trying to hide it through third parties.

Last week, Attorney General Phill Kline received the long-sought 90 medical records from Planned Parenthood and Tiller’s abortion clinic, Women’s Health Care Services. The interminable court battle resulted in a huge victory for Phill Kline. The records were subpoenaed through a Judge who determined that there was “probable cause” to believe that evidence of crime was contained within the records.

When Kline’s office received the records, all identifying information was redacted. As the Shawnee County District Court Judge noted in the October 2004 order, Kline had been careful of "the need to conduct the investigation in the least intrusive manner to the privacy interests of patients."

In 2002, George Tiller put over $210,000.00 into the Attorney General race. There is no telling how much money Tiller will give Morrison between now and the November 7 election, as it will not be reported until next January. And that does not take into consideration the amount of money he is pouring into the Morrison effort through his new non-profit corporation, Kansans for Consumer Privacy, which is exempt from the rules imposed on campaign financing imposed by the Kansas governmental ethics commission.

Paul Morrison has been largely funded, either directly or indirectly, by the abortion industry. This is an obvious conflict of interest after his vow to drop the investigation into the very people funding his campaign.

Kansas voters cannot afford to ignore the big money being dropped into Paul Morrison’s campaign. Do abortion and human cloning truly reflect the interests of most Kansans? As he’s proven by his allegiance to Kansas abortionists, Morrison will act consistently with those who purchase him. We cannot allow a lackey for the abortion and cloning industries to have a position of power in Kansas.

Transcripts prove there is a desperate need to enforce Kansas’s laws against the concealment of child rape

Attorney General Phill Kline’s investigation into Kansas abortion clinics has been perhaps the most contentious issue in the attorney general’s race. Considering the rhetoric that is coming from the Paul Morrison campaign, abortionist George Tiller’s recent “Snoop Dog” political mailings, and the ideologically biased Kansas print media, even a Phill Kline supporter might question his investigations into abortion clinics. However, that investigation has been one of the most grossly mischaracterized issues in this election.

The facts of the matter require some review. Kansas abortion clinics do not report incidents of sexual activity in children 15 or under as required by Kansas law. We are not just talking about two 15-year old teens necking in the park. We are talking about children as young as nine years old who are being sexually abused by an older man then returned to their abuser by the abortionists who refuse to report.

Overland Park abortionist Herbert Hodes admitted as much as he testified under oath during Aid for Women v. Foulston last February. Arrogant and defensive, Hodes recounted how he believed a 12-year old girl in a sexual relationship with a 20 year old man could be healthy and satisfying. His testimony ended when questioning about Hodes’ willingness to follow Kansas law was stopped by his attorney who ordered him not to respond on the grounds that it might incriminate him.

It is doubtful that the two young victims of convicted child rapist Robert Estrada would agree with Hodes. Estrada began raping his two stepdaughters when they were 11 and 12 years old, abuse that continued for years and resulted in at least four pregnancies.

This case is particularly disturbing because the girls’ abuse went unreported for years even though their sexual activity was obvious to adults who came in contact with them – including abortionist Sherman Zaremski and workers at the now defunct Central Women’s Services where they obtained abortions. The abortion clinic personnel never reported the suspected rapes to the authorities, as mandated by law, when the girls obtained abortions there even though the girls were younger than fifteen, but instead returned the girls to their abuser where the rapes continued.

Life Dynamics, Inc., a group from Denton, Texas, conducted phone calls of 800 abortion clinics, including 7 abortion clinics and Planned Parenthood offices in Kansas. In the calls, a woman pretending to be a 13-year old asked if the clinic personnel would have to report her to the authorities because her boyfriend was 22-years old, a clear violation of every state’s statutory rape laws. Life Dynamics reported that 91% of all clinics they called encouraged deceit in one form or another – including all seven Kansas clinics. (Click here to read transcripts.)

For example, the Planned Parenthood abortion clinic in Shawnee Mission told the caller that she would need to notify her parents or obtain a judicial by-pass to obtain an abortion, told the alleged 13-year old that they would tell no one if she came in for birth control even though the caller freely gave them clear evidence of statutory rape, which must be reported by law. In fact, the Planned Parenthood worker indicated that the 22-year old boyfriend could pick up her birth control pills for her so they could continue to engage in illegal sex! Most parents of 13-year old girls would find this appalling.

The following is an excerpt of a transcript of that call made by Life Dynamics that was provided to K-TIP by Kansans for Life:

CALLER: Oh, okay. Well, if the pregnancy test was negative, do you guys have birth control there?

CLINIC: You can talk with the nurse if you're wanting to get on birth control. She can discuss those options with you also.

CLINIC: No, she doesn't have to tell -- you don't need a parent/guardian notification to get on birth control.

CALLER: Oh, okay. Is it all right if my boyfriend comes to pick it up? Because I can't drive. I'm not old enough to drive.

CLINIC: You would have to send him with a note or either call and let us know first that he's coming to pick them up.

It is no wonder that Judge Richard Anderson issued subpoenas for medical records from abortion clinics at Kline’s request, indicating that there was probable cause to believe that the records would prove that laws of the State of Kansas had been violated.

This is not a matter of snooping into private medical records, or being on a fishing expedition. It is a matter of abortion clinics illegally concealing child rape, and then handing the innocent victim of the heinous act back to the rapist for further abuse.

Morrison pledged to drop these investigations, although he is now hedging on that promise because of the outrage expressed at his willingness to allow rapists to go free. Kline has endured false accusations and vicious attacks on his character in the media, yet persists in his determination to protect our daughters from rapists and those who would illegally cover up for them.

News Story Shows Planned Parenthood Prosecution In Jeopardy