Breaking: KS Supreme Court allows criminal investigation of Planned Parenthood to move forward
The KS Supreme Court ruled today that a criminal case against a Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri abortion mill in Overland Park can move forward.
The case was originally brought by Johnson Co. DA Phill Kline in 2007.
Kline charged PP with 23 felonies and 84 misdemeanors for falsifying records, committing illegal late-term abortions, and keeping incomplete state mandated records.
However, the Supremes provided conditions that will make at least one part of the case difficult to prosecute.
A judge previously handling the case for DA Kline (pictured left) testified that documents Kline forced PP to submit via subpoena did not match up to supposedly identical documents PP had submitted to the KS Dept. of Health, indicating PP falsified one or the other.
But the Supremes ruled today that KS law forbids the KS Dept. of Health from turning over its documents to the DA’s office. Explained NECM.com:
But the SC noted that KS’ abortion-reporting law says the health department can turn over its copies only to the attorney general or the state board that regulates doctors. The court said the DA’s office can’t get them – potentially hurting efforts to compare different copies in court.
Justice Carol Beier wrote in the court’s decision that the reporting law is “unambiguous” about which officials are entitled to obtain the reports.
So it is now up to the man who defeated Kline to become Johnson Co. DA, Steve Howe (pictured right), to decide whether he wants to continue prosecuting the case that the SC has handed back to him.
[HT: Operation Rescue]
Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
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Speaking of Planned Parenthood investigations I had an interesting dream this morning, in which I was in my clinicals for nursing school (I’m actually wanting to go back to school in the spring to get my LPN) & we were at an abortion clinic, in which we had the opportunity to observe a vacuum aspiration being preformed and hold the patient’s hand. I remember feeling uneasy as I entered the clean, well lit exam room and closed the door behind me, choosing to sit in a chair facing the patient’s head, so I wouldn’t have to see the procedure being preformed. I remember the patient, a young, white, brunette in her early 20’s, wearing a green paper gown, who held onto my hand and squeezed it so tightly that it hurt and I reassured her through the procedure that she was doing well & it was almost done. The sound of the vacuum machine creeped me out a bit, but overall I felt relieved the procedure wasn’t that bad. After the procedure was done and she was getting up, I helped her dress. Then the older, male doctor proudly took the nursing students on a tour of the clinic. While the clinic was clean overall, I saw some iffy things such as disposable gloves in a bucket of disinfecting fluid next to the exam room sink, which the doctor explained was so the gloves could be used again, to cut costs I thought to myself & I chided the doctor that gloves shouldn’t be reused and the clinic tour ended there. In the next scene of my dream, I’m at my Granny and Pop’s house excitedly telling my Aunt, who in real life is an RN and pro-life, about the clinicals and how I can use it to my benefit for my pro-life activism, and how I can do an undercover sting and record the health code violations on my camera phone. I also see my Granny, who passed away in real life back in 2007, and gave her a meaningful hug. The dream ends with me messing with my phone and trying to figure how long I can record. What do you all make of this dream
Did you also tell her she didn’t need to have an abortion? Before it started? I hope if you get the opportunity, you would do that.