Kan. Abortion Doctor Charged, Atty Says KS Attorney General files criminal

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charges against abortion provider Tiller.

TOPEKA, Kan., Dec. 22, 2006
By JOHN HANNA Associated Press Writer
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(AP) Kansas' attorney general, a vocal abortion opponent, has filed criminal charges against Wichita abortion provider George Tiller, the doctor's attorney said Friday.

Attorney Dan Monnat did not identify the charges, and officials in Attorney General Phill Kline's office did not immediately return calls seeking comment.

Kline, who lost his re-election bid in November and leaves office in three weeks, 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 successful two-year legal battle to obtain 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.

The incoming attorney general, Democrat Paul Morrison, has criticized Kline for seeking the records, describing it as an invasion of the patients' privacy. But after the election, Morrison wouldn't say if he would drop any investigation Kline started against the clinics.

"The filing of criminal charges by Phill Kline is the last gasp of a defeated and discredited politician," Monnat said. "Rather than executing his duty as a prosecutor to see that justice is done, he has chosen to engage in a malicious and spiteful prosecution on the eve of Christmas."

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/12/22/ap/national/mainD8M60NIG0.shtml

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. What does Kline think?

That having an abortion is an easy decision, like deciding to go to the beauty parlor and getting your hair cut and styled? And to think he's invaded the privacy-and the private grief-of women with looking over those records! When I was a teen, I knew a grown lady, a co-worker of my mother, who had complications in her pregnancy and had the choice of either dying or having an abortion. It was serious enough that they would let her have an abortion, even though this was long before Roe v Wade. She had the procedure, and was devistated. So having an abortion isn't a carefree thing to have done.

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2. Anyone who acts like Kline needs to be investigated.

When someone is that rabid he clearly has personal demons he is trying to exorcise by attacking others.

[bahrbearian]

3. Makes you wonder if he gets his Meth

from a Male Hooker

[greenbriar]

4. I don't think he (Kline) wants to open this door. HOW did O'riley get the 90 records?

Pervert Phill is trying to retain his glory but this may backfire in his face.

he is being investigated for election fraud and ... nothing has been said yet about the records that Bill O'liley has talked aobut on his show

[greenbriar]

5. charges dismissed by Judge Paul Clark

this is good news.

Paul Clark is an honest ethical man who does not support abortions BUT supports the constitution.



Pervert Phill is exposed!!!!!!!!!!

[greenbriar]

6. open the link...look at the opinions at the end

http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/16300030.htm