Judge deciding Planned Parenthood of Cincinnati’s lawsuit is former president of Planned Parenthood of Cincinnati
Dayton Daily News reported yesterday:
The federal judge who could decide the fate of Cincinnati’s last remaining abortion clinic has ties to the Planned Parenthood facility.
Well, it’s a little more than that.
On November 10, Planned Parenthood of Southwest Ohio filed a lawsuit to block enforcement at its Cincinnati mill of Ohio’s law mandating that abortion clinics have transfer agreements with a nearby hospital.
The federal judge who has been assigned to the case is Timothy Black, who coincidentally served as Director of Planned Parenthood Association of Cincinnati from 1986-89 and President of the group in 1988.
No surprise, Black is an Obama appointee.
You may recall Black was also assigned to Susan B. Anthony v. Driehaus, wherein Democrat Steve Driehaus filed a federal complaint against the pro-life group, blaming it for his 2010 loss. Driehaus claimed SBA List lied by saying he voted for taxpayer funded abortion by supporting Obamacare.
Black sided with Driehaus but was eventually overruled – unanimously – by the U.S. Supreme Court.
Clearly, Black should recuse himself in the current case. Conflict of interest much?
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.
Certainly he should recuse himself from the case and PP ought to ask that he does. I’m not for them but this conflict of interest may render his decision ineffectual/void. They couldn’t be that myopic, right?
If he decides in favor of the abortion industry, his integrity will be questioned without regard to the merits of the case.
For his own good name and reputation, as well as for America’s trust in the the judiciary, he should recuse himself. Surely, he can see this.
On the other hand…. perhaps he already sees the merits of the case against the clinic and hopes to redeem his reputation after that embarrassing rebuke from the Supreme Court. Still… the best way to show his integrity would be to properly recuse himself. That is always a prudent thing for a judge to do when his impartiality is questionable.
“Conflict of interest much?”
Indeed. In fact, if this isn’t a conflict of interest I can’t imagine what is.
Allies of hired killers of children have no conscience to begin with so integrity (like recusing himself) never crosses his mind as an option. They are a sick bunch.
Judge Black was also affiliated with Pro-Kids, Inc. from 1982 to 1988 serving as its director and vice-president. He also held a membership with an adoptive parents support organization from 1991 to 1993. The Pro-Kids’s dates partially overlap with his Planned Parenthood ties. I fail to understand the cognitive disconnect between supporting the best interests of the child on one hand and being connected to the nation’s largest destroyer of children on the other hand.
Also consider the fact this same Planned Parenthood failed to report child sexual abuse and performed an abortion on a 13 year old minor without her parents’ knowledge or consent.
From the First Appellate District of Ohio:
Plaintiffs-appellees John and June Roe, individually and as parents of Jane Roe (collectively “the Roes”), sued defendants-appellants Planned Parenthood Southwest Ohio Region, Roselyn Kade, M.D., and John Does one through six (collectively “Planned Parenthood”) for performing a wrongful abortion on Jane Roe. John Does one through six represent various Planned Parenthood employees. The
complaint alleged that Planned Parenthood had performed an unlawful abortion on Jane Roe because it had neither notified the parents nor secured their consent before the abortion; 1 that it had not obtained Jane’s informed consent; 2 and that it had breached its duty to report suspected child abuse. 3 The Roes sought compensatory and punitive damages, as well as injunctive relief.
I. The Illicit Relationship and Jane’s Fraudulently Procured Abortion
In the fall of 2003, Jane engaged in a sexual relationship with her 21-year-old soccer coach, John Haller. At the time, Jane was 13 and in the eighth grade. The sexual relationship continued through 2004, and in March of that year, Jane discovered that she was pregnant.
Crooks to their very core, whether our statutes say so or not.
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