Indictments could have national implications, says Operation Rescue

Overland Park, KS — Operation Rescue announces that a coalition of pro-life groups has launched a citizen petition effort to convene a grand jury in Johnson County, Kansas, to investigate Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri.

The Coalition has reason to believe that Planned Parenthood may be violating the law. It is asking for a grand jury to investigate the abortion business for allegedly:

Performing, allowing to be performed, or colluding to perform illegal late term abortions,

Failing to report suspected child abuse, and suspected child sexual abuse,

Failing to follow the standard of care in providing medical advice or failure to conduct medical procedures as required by Kansas statute,

Providing false information in order to induce government action or inaction,

Harvesting and/or illegal trafficking in fetal tissue,

Failing to comply with parental consent requirements,

Failing to enforce the required 24-hour waiting period and other violations of Kansas Statutes.

Kansas is one of only six states that provides for the citizen’s petition to compel a county to convene a grand jury. Approximately 3,500 signatures of registered voters in Johnson County are required. The Coalition’s goal is to gather 5,000 signatures in the next few days.

The Life Is For Everyone (L.I.F.E.) Coalition, which is sponsoring the grand jury effort, is comprised of an alliance of groups including Concerned Women For America, Women Influencing the Nation, and Operation Rescue.

“It is time to get to the bottom of what is really going on inside Planned Parenthood. We believe this investigation could have national implications, especially if indictments are returned,” said Operation Rescue President Troy Newman. “Because of the innocent lives that are at stake and seriousness of the allegations, there is a sense of urgency to get this grand jury underway as soon as possible.”

Johnson County registered voters are urged to visit LIFEpetition.com to learn more and to print and sign the petition.

Operation Rescue calls on District Attorney to Open Criminal Investigation

Hyannis, MA — Eileen Smith has come forward in order to keep her daughter’s abortion death from being “swept under the rug.” Her 22-year old daughter, Laura Hope Smith, died on September 13, 2007, during an abortion done by Rapin Osathanondh at Women Health Clinic in Hyannis, Massachusetts.

Smith told Operation Rescue that she had no idea that her daughter was 13 weeks pregnant and considering an abortion. A friend accompanied Laura to the clinic. Early reports indicated that Laura died of hemorrhage, but Smith says that her daughter died on the abortion table. “There was no bleeding. She stopped breathing and went into cardiac arrest,” said Smith.

Ten days after Laura’s death, Smith met privately for one hour at a public place with Osathanondh. He would only meet with Smith alone and refused to allow even allow her husband to accompany her. Osathanondh admitted that Laura died during the abortion but refused to admit he did anything wrong.

Smith told Operation Rescue that the details of her daughter’s death appalled and sickened her, but she could not discuss those details because she is seeking legal action against Osathanondh for killing her daughter.

“My daughter was 22, healthy, and alive when she walked into that clinic,” Smith said. “She didn’t even have a cold. There is no reason for her to be dead.”

Laura was born into abject poverty in Hondurus on May 25, 1985, and was abandoned at an orphanage. An American couple that adopted Laura abused her terribly and gave her up. Laura was then adopted by Tom and Eileen Smith, a Christian family that lovingly raised Laura in the Cape Cod community of Sandwich.

Laura was a 2004 graduate of Upper Cape Tech, majoring in cosmetology, but later realized that profession did not suit her. At the time of her death she was working in retail management. Laura was a born again Christian who was an active member of Calvary Chapel of Sandwich.

Over 600 people attended Laura’s funeral. Since then, at least one young woman has changed her mind about abortion since hearing about what happened to Laura.

Smith told Operation Rescue that two days after Laura’s death, she gave a full interview to the local newspaper, which was scheduled to be published on the day of Laura’s funeral. The article has yet to appear, leading Smith to believe that there are attempts underway to cover up her daughter’s death.

Operation Rescue is urging calls to the local district attorney asking for a formal investigation of Rabin Osathanondh in the abortion death of Laura Hope Smith.

District Attorney Michael D. O’Keefe
Phone: 508-362-8113
E-Mail: CapeDA@Massmail.state.ma.us

Hyannis, MA — Reports are coming out of Massassachusetts that a 22-year old woman died on September 13, 2007, from hemorrhaging caused by an abortion obtained at Women Health Center in the Cape Cod town of Hyannis. The abortionist responsible for the death is reportedly Rapin Osathanondh, who made headlines in 2001 for threatening to murder five hospital nurses in a fit of rage over misplaced paperwork.

A receptionist at Women Health Center responded in to inquiries about the woman’s death with obvious agitation, but would not confirm or deny the abortion death. “I can’t help you,” she told Operation Rescue.

The abortion victim, whose name Operation Rescue is currently withholding, was reportedly a member of a Calvary Chapel church in a nearby town. According to her MySpace page, she was a cosmetologist who was born in Honduras and adopted by an American family. She was engaged to be married.

A complaint has been filed against Osathanondh with the Massachusetts Board of Registration In Medicine regarding the abortion death.

“Our nation is facing a crisis of dangerous abortionists operating in unsafe abortion mills, killing innocent babies — sometimes illegally as we have seen in some states — and injuring and killing unsuspecting women. More must be done to stop these predatory abortion businesses from inflicting additional human tragedy on society,” said Operation Rescue spokesperson Cheryl Sullenger.

“This death also brings to light a serious problem in the Christian community,” said Sullenger. “There simply is not adequate teaching from the pulpits about abortion, and therefore Christians are aborting their babies at a shocking rate. According to some statistics, 68% of women obtaining abortions attend some denomination of Christian church. This shows a shameful failure on the part of American pastors to properly teach their congregations what the Bible says about human sexuality and the sanctity of life. Yet, the majority of pastors who are approached about this problem refuse to deal with it. This denial and refusal to properly pastor their congregations on this matter makes them culpable for these kinds of avoidable tragedies.”