LOGO: Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines. A Progressive Journal of News and Opinion. Editor, Robert Scheer. Publisher, Zuade Kaufman.
2010 Webby Award Winner for Best Political Blog
 
February 19, 2012
Log in / Register

 Choose a size
Text Size

Most Read

Krugman to Playboy: Economic Crisis 'Doesn't Have to Be Happening'

Déjà Pooh

The .0000063% Election

Truthdigger of the Week: Lt. Col. Daniel L. Davis

The Best, Most Revealing Reporting on the Foreclosure Crisis

Most Comments
Most Emailed

Reports
 * NEW! * The Lowdown on Fracking
 * NEW! * The .0000063% Election

Ear to the Ground

A/V Booth

Arts & Culture
Déjà Pooh

Digs
Financial Meltdown 101

Truthdig Bazaar more items

 
Ear to the Ground

Kansas Abortion Doctor Gets Scrooged

Email this item Email    Print this item Print   

Posted on Dec 22, 2006
Phill Kline
nytimes.com

Outgoing Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline

A prominent Kansas abortion provider has been charged with 30 misdemeanor violations of state law by the outgoing state attorney general. Dr. George Tiller and his supporters believe that Attorney General Phill Kline, who lost the November election and has only three weeks left in office, issued the charges as a farewell act of malice.

Update: A judge dismissed all charges only hours after they were filed (h/t: Frank in comments).


AP via Yahoo!:

Tiller and Planned Parenthood have repeatedly said they’ve committed no wrongdoing and that the patient records Kline obtained contained no evidence of crimes by either the clinics or their doctors.

“We also intend to explore any and all means of holding Kline personally responsible for his malicious actions,” 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.”

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

Read more

More Below the Ad

Advertisement


Comments

Are you a Truthdig member yet? Login now, or register with Truthdig.

By Hondo, December 27, 2006 at 7:29 pm Link to this comment
(Unregistered commenter)

Rickinsf—in 2003, Tiller performed 78 abortions on girls under the age of 15. The age of consent is 16 in Kansas. Tiller made ZERO reports of rape, or sexual assault, on a child to state authorities. Case closed.

To Paracelsus—Exodus 20:13, 21:22, 23:7; Job 10:8-12; Psalms 22:10, 51:5, 127:3, 139:13-16; Isaiah 44:1-2, 49:5; and Jeremiah 1:4-5. I would invite you to read the words of someone who is about a billion times smarter and wiser than I am on this subject—and any other subject for that matter. Read what Billy Graham has to say about this issue, based on God’s Holy Word, at http://www.billygraham.org/MyAnswer_Article.asp?ArticleID=2636

Report this

By Rickinsf, December 24, 2006 at 9:15 am Link to this comment
(Unregistered commenter)

“..an asshole who would rather see rapists and child molesters go free…”

Can you substantiate that statement, “Hondo.”

Report this

By Paracelsus, December 24, 2006 at 8:09 am Link to this comment
(Unregistered commenter)

Ok,I’m game. Where in the Bible is abortion forbidden by God?

Report this

By afm, December 23, 2006 at 8:37 pm Link to this comment
(Unregistered commenter)

It just goes to show you if you can’t win fair and square well getting even is the next best thing. What a mean spirited idot he is.  What does it tell young people who may want to run for office someday.  Well go figure he must look up to the president.

Report this

By Quy Tran, December 23, 2006 at 7:17 pm Link to this comment
(Unregistered commenter)

Highly educated people still have more sordid plays against each other.

Report this

By Frank, December 23, 2006 at 6:22 am Link to this comment
(Unregistered commenter)

All charges have been dismissed by a judge. This case is now dead.

http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/nation/16302507.htm

Report this

By Hondo, December 22, 2006 at 10:50 pm Link to this comment
(Unregistered commenter)

It wasn’t a farewell act of malice. It was a very courageous attempt to prosecute an asshole who would rather see rapists and child molesters go free than to see any decline in the number of murdered unborn babies.

Report this

Add Your Comment

Posts by unregistered readers are moderated. Posts by members
are published immediately. Why wait? Register today!






                        Number of characters remaining: 4000

Are you a human? Retype the word you see here.

     

Please read and abide by our comment policy.
By submitting this comment, you agree to this site's terms and conditions.

Newsletter

Get Truthdig in your inbox


 
 
 
Join the Liberal Blog Advertising Network
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

A Progressive Journal of News and Opinion. Editor, Robert Scheer. Publisher, Zuade Kaufman.
Copyright © 2012 Truthdig, L.L.C. All rights reserved.