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Kansas Abortion Doctor Gets Scrooged

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Posted on Dec 22, 2006
Phill Kline
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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.

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By Hondo, December 27, 2006 at 7:29 pm #
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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?Articl eID=2636

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By Rickinsf, December 24, 2006 at 9:15 am #
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“..an asshole who would rather see rapists and child molesters go free...”

Can you substantiate that statement, “Hondo.”

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By Paracelsus, December 24, 2006 at 8:09 am #
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Ok,I’m game. Where in the Bible is abortion forbidden by God?

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By afm, December 23, 2006 at 8:37 pm #
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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.

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By Quy Tran, December 23, 2006 at 7:17 pm #
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Highly educated people still have more sordid plays against each other.

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By Frank, December 23, 2006 at 6:22 am #
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All charges have been dismissed by a judge. This case is now dead.

http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/nation/1 6302507.htm

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By Hondo, December 22, 2006 at 10:50 pm #
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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.

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