AP’s Hanna continues to propagate false notion of abortion records “leak”
Topeka, KS — The Kansas Supreme Court has ruled against two abortion businesses that had asked for the criminal investigation against them — including abortion records subpoenaed in that case — be taken away from Attorney General Phill Kline and placed in the hands of a special prosecutor.
The denial of the abortionist’s motion allows Kline to continue his investigation until he leaves office on January 8, 2007.
Kline is currently investigating late-term abortionist George Tiller of Wichita and Planned Parenthood in Overland Park for illegal abortions and the concealment child rape. The abortionists have fought hard to prevent the medical records from being used as key evidence against them.
The motion denied today was brought after Kline appeared on The O’Reilly Factor television program earlier this month. In a surprise revelation, O’Reilly told Kline that he had an inside source and had seen some medical records from Tiller’s abortion clinic.
Associated Press reporter John Hanna jumped on the story and immediately began to erroneously report that the records O’Reilly had access to were leaked from Kline’s office, when in fact O’Reilly clearly stated that he was not sure that Kline had access to the same records O’Reilly had seen. Hanna continues to propagate the myth of a “leak” in his article published today by the AP.
“We believe that the erroneous information about a non-existent ‘leak’ of medical records that was widely distributed by the Kansas media just days before the election contributed to Kline’s defeat,” said Operation Rescue spokesperson Cheryl Sullenger.
“It is more likely that the records that O’Reilly has access to were given to him by former abortion patients who now regret their abortions,” she said. “We have strong reason to believe that O’Reilly’s records predate the subpoenaed records in Kline’s possession by several years.”
“We continue to pray that those who have concealed child rape and those who flagrantly aborted viable babies that should have been protected by law will be brought to justice,” Sullenger said.
Operation Rescue has called for a national protest at George Tiller’s abortion clinic January 19-22 in response to O’Reilly’s comments that thousands of people should be protesting Tiller’s clinic because of his late-term abortion practice.
Read Attorney General Kline’s Full Press Statement
Listen to O’Reilly’s Disputed Comments For Yourself
UPDATE: The John Hanna story published in Friday, December 1, 2006, editions of the Kansas City Star and the Wichita Eagle differs greatly from the story we rsponded to that appeared on Thursday afternoon. In Friday’s versions, Hanna toned down his language wrongly inferring that Kline’s office had “leaked” records obtained from George Tiller’s late-term abortion mill and Planned Parenthood.
We are reprinting both the original story that we responded to on Thursday afternoon and the most recent article so you can compare them for yourself. In calling out Hanna’s error, we believe we may have been able to contribute to holding the media accountable for reporting the truth.
-Operation Rescue
EARLIEST VERSION: Posted November 30, 2006
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061130/ap_on_re_us/abortion_records_1&printer=1
Court stays out of abortion records case
By JOHN HANNA, Associated Press
The Kansas Supreme Court refused Thursday to intervene on behalf of two abortion clinics in a dispute with the state attorney general over patient records that were leaked to “The O’Reilly Factor.”
The clinics had asked the court to seize the records of 90 patients from Attorney General Phill Kline and appoint a special prosecutor to investigate how Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly got access to abortion records for a Nov. 3 broadcast. Read the rest of this entry »






