Abortion bill gets first round approval

A new abortion bill aimed at better policing and reducing late term abortions in Kansas has been moved forward in the Kansas House by a voice vote. Rep. Lance Kinzer sponsors the bill (he's been probably the strongest ally Christian conservatives have in the Kansas House).

Contact your reps and encourage them to get this bill passed. This bill also requires additional information about the fetus be provided to the mother's prior to an abortion. A very good bill indeed.

Late Term Abortion

Report from Charlotte Esau, executive director of Kansas Republican Assembly:

Two bills had hearings in House Fed & State this past week, HB 2615 & HB 2736. The first would make it abundantly clear what must be reported as to the actual justification of the late term abortion. Right now providers are getting away with just repeating the statute. This bill is a direct result of the special committee meeting last summer, on which I posted two reports: A lesson in how Kansas Government Plays "Pass the Buck" and Her Name is Michelle.The other bill, 2736, would add several good provisions such as the mother being offered the option of seeing the ultrasound if one is used at any point before or during the abortion. After sitting through the testimony of both the proponents of the bills, who gave ample reasons why we should pass them and then the opponents, who offered nothing to justify not passing the bills, one would presume both bills could get out of committee. At this point, though, their future is not known.

Abortion debate rages on

A House committee is discussing a comprehensive bill that would require doctors to offer women the chance to see an ultrasound before an abortion. Why shouldn't they see an ultrasound? Don't doctors typically show x-rays of the area that is going to be operated on? Of course opponents don't want women to see that what they are destroying actually looks like a human.

This article says Kay Lyn Carlson is based in KC, but she's actually based in Topeka. She had an abortion when she was 17 and now counsels women and men after they have abortions. She is supporting this bill, as we all should. Contact your rep and ask them to support it.

Tiller finally takes a hit

From KansasLiberty.com: Last week, the judge presiding over the Wichita grand jury investigating abortionist George Tiller ruled Friday that Tiller must hand over records that the grand jury subpoenaed in its investigation into the legality of some of Tiller's late-term abortions. The ruling is a severe set-back for Tiller who has so far refused to surrender the documents required by the state to monitor compliance with Kansas law.

It's good news, finally, that Tiller must show his cards so that perhaps the light can be turned on his illegal actions. It's bad enough to be an abortionist who makes a living killing babies LEGALLY. To push the envelope to even kill the babes that Kansas' loosy-goosy laws don't allow is atrocious.

Let's continue to pray that through the legal channels, he will be exposed for what he is and his practice will be shut down.

Rallying for Life...and against it.

There were rallies at the statehouse yesterday...for those supporting life issues and those who are AGAINST life. Wow...how do you get out of bed and motivate yourself to go and rally FOR killing babies? How does that become your passion?

As the by-product of a rendezvous among college students in a dorm room who was subsequently adopted by a very nice family, I'm quite glad my bio-mom chose life. Sure, she could have aborted me before birth or suffocated me with a pillow immediately after--both with the same result--and I wouldn't be around to appreciate the decision she made. But as a proud former-fetus, I enjoy the life and breath that God gives me and am thankful for each day that I have been blessed to live because of the difficult decision my mother had to make.

Awaiting Sebelius' Hand-picked Successor for AG

Well, the wait is on, and there's no way to be disappointed with whoever Sebelius picks to replace Morrison as Attorney General. I was one that didn't celebrate when Morrison resigned. From what I understand from insiders, even though I don't agree with his political positions, he took his job seriously and didn't run a very political office. When Kline was defeated, we knew we weren't going to have an AG with the fire in the belly to go after the abortion industry...Tiller specifically. But now what? Sebelius, who is CERTAINLY in Tiller's back pocket, gets to pick his replacement. Gee, I wonder what's going to happen here? We can't be disappointed by the pick because we know what to expect. It doesn't matter who it is, we can be sure our cause won't be advanced with the selection.

Abortion Grand Jury Seated

Is it a step forward now that Johnson County has seated a Grand Jury to investigate whether an abortion clinic violated state abortion laws?

Absolutely! This is one to watch. Let's see what happens when they get Tiller on trial. Now that Morrison is distracted by his sex scandal, I wonder what impact that will have on these cases.

Robed Royalty Suspend Kansas Grand Jury Law

Flash …KS Supreme Court suspends Kansas law…Citizens Grand Jury by Petition usurped…

According to today’s news story below the Kansas Supreme court has issued a temporary injunction against a grand jury in Wichita from being impaneled to investigate allegations of abortionist George Tiller…

Indications seem to be that the KS Supreme court wants those same Wichita judges that found the citizen petition to be in proper form to now go beyond the boundary’s set by the legislature, stop the summoning of a lawfully petitioned grand jury and have select judges inquire now into the allegations. This crosses the line as stated by the KS Statute that the judges only authority at this point is to find the petition in order, or not. The very intent of the grand jury process is for the people to inquire into probable cause when authorities will not. Corruption is at the heart of the reason for a citizens grand jury petition system.

Excerpt from KS Statute 22-3001 “The judge or judges of the district court of the county shall then consider the petition and, if it is found that the petition is in proper form and bears the signatures of the required number of electors, a grand jury shall be ordered to be summoned.”

Possible legislative showdown in Kansas? Federal court intervention? Stay Strong, Phillip

Court temporarily halts Tiller grand jury

The Associated Press

Published Friday, October 26, 2007

The Kansas Supreme Court has temporarily blocked the start of a Sedgwick County grand jury to investigate abortion provider George Tiller.

The court’s order today stops the grand jury from starting its work until the court can decide if the panel should convene. The grand jury had been scheduled to begin its work next Tuesday.

The order by Chief Justice Kay McFarland was in response to a petition filed by Dr. Tiller, who is one of the nation’s few late-term abortion providers.

Abortion opponents accuse Tiller of violating a 1998 state law restricting late-term abortions, an allegation his attorneys repeatedly have said is unfounded.

Kline and Planned Parenthood

Phill Kline and his commitment to using the law to combat the abortion industry in Kansas is featured in this Brent Bozell III column.

Abortion opponents seek grand jury to investigate clinic

From Examiner.com:

A coalition of abortion opponents wants a grand jury formed to investigate whether Planned Parenthood's Overland Park clinic is complying with state abortion laws.

The Life Is for Everyone (LIFE) coalition, which is circulating a petition, says it has reason to believe that Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri and its Comprehensive Health clinic in Overland Park might be violating the law.

"There's too much controversy surrounding Planned Parenthood at this point," said Troy Newman, president of anti-abortion group Operation Rescue. "I think an independent grand jury can get to the bottom of it."

Group files complaint against Tiller

From the Capital Journal:

An anti-abortion group filed a complaint today with state regulators against Dr. George Tiller. It alleges the high-profile Wichita abortion provider broke state law and gave a patient substandard care.

Operation Rescue based its complaint on medical records from Michelle Armesto, a Topeka resident who testified during a legislative committee hearing on abortion last month. She said she received an abortion from Tiller’s clinic in May 2003.

KC Star Cartoon Displays Dismay at Abortion Activists

In an update received by Phillip Cosby of National Coalition for the Protection of Families:

The news media recently has had a flurry of coverage concerning our fight against the sex industry. As usual the stories are never as I would write them but all in all it has been interesting and not too many surprises. Some telling of the facts are better that others.

I want to call your attention to today KC Stars political cartoon. The drawing is of two men charging a great house and door with a large log.

The captions explain that these are conservatives charging the abortion industry's fortress (Planned Parenthood) with a battering ram called “Abuse of the Grand Jury Process”. As you may know by now the pro-life movement has awakened to the power of the grand jury petition process. I cheer them on…

I had to chuckle at the thought of someone being so dismayed at a group of concerned citizens using the legal system to investigate a public injustice. That is exactly what Kansas lawmakers envisioned and encouraged when the power to participate in the legal system was legislated awarding a grand jury by petition process. It is a very pure form of a government "of, by and for the people" that engages the judicial system.

Although the KC Star may intend such caricatures to mock, I want you to imagine this same political cartoon and place this caption below it….Mt 16:18b…”and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it”…

We are a people that seeks justice, turns on light, dispels darkness, goes on the offensive and tears down walls. Lord,help us to not take the road for the timid that would shrink back from adversity.

Embryonic stem cells found in amniotic fluid

Scientists have discovered the same kinds of stem cells that have until now only been found in embryos. Now they can possibly be extracted from amniotic fluid.

I'm glad this might lessen the demand for destroying human embryos, but I'm still waiting to see evidence that embryonic stem cells produces any medical benefit whatsoever--so far, nada. From what I can see, it's just a money grab. Federal dollars should not be spent in any way that devalues human life, nor should it be spent on projects that haven't yet yielded any real promise of remarkable breakthroughs. This is why we have a free market economy. If the concept of using these stem cells can produce a result that will make money for companies, then they should spend their own money to research it. Don't make me fund your baby-killing research with MY tax dollars.

Sebelius' pathetic non-action on Kline appointment

From today's opinion page in the Capital Journal:

Not people's will

Gov. Kathleen Sebelius' refusal to sign the certificate of appointment of Phill Kline as Johnson County district attorney was a slap in the face not only to Mr. Kline, but also to the duly elected Republican precinct committeemen and women who selected him. These men and women were simply fulfilling the responsibility entrusted to them by the people who elected them, their neighbors.

Of course, Gov. Sebelius claims that she did so "out of a deep and enduring respect for the will of the people." Since when does she care about the "will of the people"?

This is the same governor who twice vetoed a reasonable abortion clinic licensing bill that passed both chambers of the Legislature, who vetoed a concealed weapons bill passed overwhelmingly by the Legislature, and who vetoed a late-term abortion reporting bill. Does Gov. Sebelius think that the duly elected representatives and senators who passed these bills weren't doing the "will of the people"?

It is common knowledge that late-term abortionist George Tiller spent a lot of money to help defeat Phill Kline in the attorney general's race. The abortion industry had no such influence on the precinct committeemen and women who chose Mr. Kline for district attorney. Gov. Sebelius' whining about their selection makes it obvious that the only person whose "will" she cares about is George Tiller.

JEANNE GAWDUN, Topeka

Dr. Tiller's stranglehold on Kansas

The breadth of the influence of Dr. Tiller "the baby killer" on government officials in Kansas has been exposed as local judges have shut down Attorney General Phill Kline's efforts to begin legal proceedings against him for not reporting crimes committed resulting in pregnancies that were terminated in his abortion mill.

Read the details here.

There is also a link to a spot you can view a composite of eight shows in which Fox News' Bill O'Reilly has placed his spotlight on the abortion industry in Kansas.

Supreme Court Hears Arguments on Partial Birth Abortion Ban

Well, time for a refreshing change of subject...

The Bush administration is asking the Supreme Court to uphold a ban on the horrendous practice of partial birth abortion. Courts have struck down the law that Congress passed and Bush signed in 2003. Hopefully, now with a beefed up slightly more conservative court, we can get a Supreme court ruling that finally puts an end to this type of infanticide.

Ugly, UGLY election

Well, we can put to rest once and for all that Kansas is a "conservative" state. The good candidates are all losing here.

What's the matter with you people???

It's always sad when people, confronted with the truth, are more comfortable with the lie. Nancy Boyda (dist. 2) and Paul Morrison (AG), both heavily funded by the abortion industry and both based on rampant deception in their advertising, are WINNING??? Who believes the garbage they've been dishing out? It's been proven that they're lying to you and yet they're winning. I don't get it.

Phill Kline on O'Reilly

Just in case you haven't seen this yet, following is a link to two segments of The O'Reilly Factor from Friday night. His topic was Dr. Tiller, and the medical records that the Attorney General's office has obtained. In the first segment, O'Reilly talks to Amy Richards, a pro-abortion apologist. He can't believe what he is hearing her say in her defense of Tiller. Phill Kline is interviewed in the second segment. View them both.

www.kcprovideo.com/kline

Abortion money funding campaign against Kline

From Kansas.com: Abortion politics animates AG race

Excerpt:

ProKanDo, the political action committee of Women's Health Care Services, the Wichita abortion clinic run by George Tiller, reported campaign spending of $304,108 from July 21 to Oct. 26. Its report showed spending of $81,247 on automated phone calls and another $95,700 in "member dues" to Kansans for Consumer Privacy Protection.

That is the group identified in a "Snoop Dog Kline" direct mail campaign accusing Kline of spending the last three years "snooping through women's private medical records on a personal crusade against abortion."

Like the direct mail flier, the ProKanDo phone message left with voters also takes Kline to task for his subpoenas of abortion medical records.

In the 2002 campaign, ProKanDo spent thousands of dollars in an unsuccessful attempt to beat Kline.

In addition to ProKanDo, Kansans for Life Saving Cures also has waded into the political fray with fliers that advocate Kline's defeat and urge support for Morrison and Democratic Gov. Kathleen Sebelius. This group reported raising $350,678 for the reporting period and spending $191,753.

Blood Money Behind Morrison's Campaign

Candidate for Kansas AG, Paul Morrison, is richly funded by blood money from pro-abortion forces. Late term abortionist George Tiller's PorKanDo PAC held a fundraiser for Morrison on July, 25, 2006 in Washington DC. Tiller and friends have pledged hundreds of thousands of dollars to Morrison as a down payment on Morrison's anticipated favors—looking the other way as the children of Kansas are raped and abused under the watchful eye of Planned Parenthood and George Tiller.

Paul Morrison recently reported that he has already raised over one million dollars to defeat Phill Kline. The smear campaign is in full progress.

Three years ago Phill Kline's entire campaign budget was $315,000.00. In that election, 'Tiller the Killer' contributed $300,000 of his own money to his personal PAC to defeat Kline. What is an honest Christian candidate to do when the contributions of a single notorious abortionist nearly exceeds his entire budget for the general election?