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Archive for February, 2005

Kansas Investigation Into Child Rape Blocked By Two Secret Abortion Clinics

Written by Operation Rescue
Posted February 24, 2005 at 3:33 pm

KS Supreme Court sealed the names of mills fighting AG Kline over late-term abortion records

WICHITA, KS — Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline has asked for the records of 90 women who had abortions after 22 weeks gestation at two unnamed abortion clinics in an investigation into reports of child sex abuse in minor girls. Currently, abortion clinics are exempt from reporting child sex abuse, even if they become aware of it. The two clinics, whose names have been sealed by the Kansas Supreme Court, are blocking the release of the records citing privacy concerns of their patients.

“Rape is a serious crime and when a 10, 11, or 12 year old is pregnant — they have been raped under Kansas law,” said Kline in a press release dated February 24, 2005. “The child’s privacy is always protected…no one has the right to rape or victimize a child or woman whether in private or public. There are two things child predators want: access to children and secrecy and as Attorney General, I am bound and determined to give them neither.”

Operation Rescue believes that one of the unnamed clinics is late-term abortionist George Tiller’s Women’s Health Care Services in Wichita.

“We can put two and two together,” said OR president Troy Newman. “Tiller brags about being the largest late term abortion facility outside Communist China. Certainly no one in Kansas does as many late-term abortions as Tiller. We fully support the Attorney General’s investigation and pray that he will gain access to these records and catch the child rapists that these clinics are covering for.”

“We see very, very young girls going into Tiller’s abortion mill on a regular basis and have reported this,” said Cheryl Sullenger, a sidewalk counselor who offers help to women considering abortions outside Tiller’s infamous abortion clinic. “Some appear to be as young as 10 or 11 years old. Whether you support abortion or not, everyone should be shocked that these clinics are not only protecting child sexual predators, but are also enabling them to continue to abuse by keeping their dirty little secrets.”

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George Tiller Subpoenaed by Texas

Written by Operation Rescue
Posted February 22, 2005 at 10:35 pm

Three breaking developments in the investigation surrounding Kansas abortion death

WICHITA, KS — Excerpts from an interview, obtained by Operation Rescue, with Kansas State Attorney General Phil Kline show late-term abortionist George Tiller and Kansas State Governor Kathleen Sebelius all “under the microscope” as the investigation continues in an abortion related death of a 19-year-old Texas girl. On January 13, 2005, a young woman was transported by ambulance from the abortion clinic owned by Tiller to Wesley Medical Center where Operation Rescue found out she later died.

Today there were three breaking developments in the investigation:

* The state of Texas and the Texas Attorney General have issued a material witness subpoena for Tiller in an investigation involving incidents that occurred in Texas prior to the young woman being brought to Tiller’s abortion clinic in Wichita, Kansas, where she suffered a fatal medical emergency.

* Attorney General Phill Kline has confirmed that his office is pursuing an investigation into the death of this 19-year-old Texas girl.

* Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius has asked the Kansas Board of Healing Arts (BOHA) to investigate the death of this 19-year-old. Sebelius has been under fire since the tragedy for her veto of the clinic regulation act in 2003 that might have saved the victim’s life.

In an interview today Attorney General Phill Kline stated, “I will state that women would be more safe when receiving services at these clinics if the Governor had not vetoed the clinic licensing bill – and it’s my hope that the Governor will have a change of heart and support the licensing effort in the future.”

“Due to recent pressure placed on Governor Sebelius’s office by Operation Rescue, we are glad to see that she has taken an interest in the safety of women by investigating the questionable practices of George Tiller and hope that her actions prove sincere in light of last years veto.” —Troy Newman, Operation Rescue President

“We applaud Attorney General Kline’s office for investigating a problem that has gone on too long. We look forward to justice being served and hope this is the last woman who will have to die at the hand of George Tiller.” -Cheryl Sullenger, Operation Rescue Outreach Coordinator

Press Release–Governor acknowledges death of abortion patient in Wichita

Written by Operation Rescue
Posted February 21, 2005 at 8:43 pm

[The following is a press release from Kansans For Life. -OR]

PRESS RELEASE

For immediate release: Monday, February 21,2005
Contact: Mary Kay Culp, Exec. Dir., Kansans for Life
913-406-4446

Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius’ memo to Board of Healing Arts admits death of woman in Wichita

Kansans for Life believes Governor’s signature could have possibly averted woman’s death!

Abortion clinic activists in Wichita have videotaped five ambulance transports from George Tiller’s Wichita Women’s Health Care late-term abortion clinic to Wesley Medical Center in the past 13 months (www.operationrescue.org). One was last week (Feb. 17) and one was January 13 which involved a woman who they were later informed had died. To date, there has been no media inquiry and little coverage, probably because of a lack of official recognition of the death.

Kansans for Life was recently given a February 2 memo from Governor Sebelius to Larry Buening, Executive Director of the Kansas Board of Healing Arts (BOHA). In the Feb. 2 memo, Governor Kathleen Sebelius asked the BOHA to investigate “the circumstances of the death of a patient at the Wichita Women’s Health Center on or about January 13, 2005.”

Kansans for Life is taking that as an official indication that the woman in the January 13 incident indeed died.

(Note: The last person who wants there to be a known death at Dr. Tillers is Governor Sebelius, so it is impossible to believe that this was simply a failure to apply the word “alleged” in the middle of the phrase “the death”.)

Kansans for Life Executive Director Mary Kay Culp said: “Use of the Board of Healing Arts alone to investigate this death makes us question just how serious the Governor is about getting to the bottom of the circumstances surrounding the death in Wichita. Just this week the Board proved once again just how slowly and ineffectively they move when the subject of their inquiry is an abortion clinic.” (See below and attached documents.)
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