No Delay In Tiller Case As New Prosecutor Is Ordered To Answer Spurious Accusations
Tiller’s attorneys attempt to pass off unsubstantiated National Inquirer-style accusations as fact
Wichita, KS – Judge Clark Owens has ruled that the scheduled November 17 hearing in the criminal case of late-term abortionist George R. Tiller will not be delayed as prosecutors are ordered to answer almost 500 allegations of misconduct levied by Tiller’s defense team.
Tiller’s lawyers made the allegations in a brief filed September 15 that included unsubstantiated accusations of prosecutorial misconduct on the part of former Attorney General Phill Kline, who denies any wrongdoing.
Tiller is being charged with 19 counts of violating a requirement in the Kansas ban on post-viability abortions that requires the second signature of a physician not legally or financially affiliated with the abortionist before post-viability abortions can be done. Operation Rescue was the first to discover and report that Tiller was violating that requirement in the law.
While the current charges were not filed by Kline, they are based on abortion records obtained by Kline with the permission and oversight of the Kansas Supreme Court.
Attorney General Steve Six removed prosecutor Veronica Dersch from the case last week because she is now a potential witness. Dersch has been replaced by Barry Disney, who asked Judge Owens for permission to file his answer to the Tiller accusations after the November 17 hearing, when the facts of the matter can be determined. The request for a delay in filing the brief was denied at a hearing on Thursday.
“Tiller is now engaging in the ‘smoke and mirrors’ defense, apparently because they have no real legal defense to stand on. They are attempting to pass off huge amounts of unsubstantiated accusations as fact, and cloud the real issue that their client is accused of repeatedly breaking the law,” said Operation Rescue President Troy Newman. “Tiller’s attorneys are willing to risk the lives and safety of women to keep Tiller in business, and their hourly fees rolling in.”
Tiller was involved in a botched late-term abortion last week that hospitalized a patient and nearly cost her life. On Wednesday, an ambulance transported yet another botched abortion victim away from Tiller’s late-term abortion mill.
“This prosecution must go on without further delay,” said Newman. “Every day Tiller’s clinic is open is another day when women’s lives are placed at risk from his dangerous abortion business. A conviction could cost Tiller his medical license and literally save lives.”
October 3rd, 2008 at 12:01 pm
Thank you for writing so clearly and keeping us informed. It makes me feel sick that this is happening and that I am doing nothing to stop it. I appreciate what you do. I can pray.
October 3rd, 2008 at 2:54 pm
What is the deal here Kansas? Why so slow to move on this clinic or doctor which maims patients? Recently an engineer in California was texting while working & caused a train wreck. That led almost immediately to the ban on text messaging.
Ladies leave this clinic in ambulances, let’s do something to prevent future injuries and/or fatalities here.
October 4th, 2008 at 6:28 pm
The “deal” in Kansas is that the governor, AG, many legislators, law enforcement and judges have been bought and paid for by Tiller, other abortionists and abortion lobbyists across the country.
The Kansas experience provides insight into how abortion invades and corrupts society. It begins with an indifferent electorate, comprising voters willing to sell out the unborn to anti-life politicians like Kathleen Sebelius for a chance at the handouts such charlatans offer.
The same thing is happening on the national level right now, of course. Barack Obama and Joe Biden, both of whom pretend to be Christian, are making the same promises leftwingers are known for: free stuff for everyone. Unless McCain and Palin can change things in these last four weeks, we’ll all be paying for the “free stuff,” including free abortions at Tiller’s, Planned Parenthood and every other abortion mill in the US.
This is the motivation behind Planned Parenthood’s massive clinic-building effort across the country during the last couple of years. They’ll increase the cost of an average abortion from $300 to $3000 and charge it to the federal government; new legislation, written and passed by Democrat majorities in Congress and signed into law by Obama, will charge the cost of the slaughter to you and me.
This struggle of ours against this satanic assault is absolutely biblical, is it not?
“Saint Michael, the Archangel, defend us in battle; be our defense against the wickedness and snares of the devil and his minions… in Wichita, Topeka and Washington, DC.”