The Kansas Board of Healing Arts today revoked the medical license of Dr. Ann Kristin Neuhaus (pictured with her attorney), an accomplice hired by deceased late-term abortionist George Tiller to give a legally required second opinion for late-term abortions on minors.

According to the Associated Press:

In stripping Neuhaus of her license, the board accepted the findings of an administrative judge, who concluded in February that Neuhaus “seriously jeopardized” the care of her patients. The case against her involved mental health exams done in 2003 on 11 patients, ages 10 to 18. The judge said Neuhaus’ records didn’t contain enough information to show that she did thorough exams….

Neuhaus’ reports for Tiller, compiled with a “PsychManager Lite” computer program, were five pages or less and don’t cite details from patients’ statements or data gleaned from her exams. The administrative judge concluded Neuhaus simply “answered yes/no questions” using the computer program and assigned whatever diagnosis the computer gave.

The judge also said that in some cases, the young patients were described as suicidal, but Neuhaus didn’t recommend further treatment.

Hugely important but summarily ignored in all mainstream media reports thus far is that all records used to revoke Neuhaus’s medical license came from evidence obtained in former Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline’s investigation of Tiller.

Responding to today’s news, Kline noted the following points in an email:
 

1. Tiller committed all the aforementioned abortions for temporary mental health concerns.
2. The mental health diagnosis was not supported by the record.
3. There was no evidence Neuhaus ever saw a patient.
4. There was no evidence Neuhaus was in the clinic at any time to see the aforementioned patients.
5. Neuhaus simply signed a form letter printed by Dr. Tiller that read “I find there will be severe an irreversible damage to a major bodily function of the mother….”
6. Neuhuas received about $350 for every letter she signed.
7. In deposition Neuhaus could not recall any patient she had rejected, although she claimed she was certain she had.
8. Neuhaus was recommended to Tiller by Larry Beuning, then Executive Director of the Kansas Board of Healing Arts, who was appointed by then Gov. Kathleen Sebelius. His wife is Vicki Buening, who at the time was Sebelius’s director of constituent affairs.  Beuning is now gone.
9. The board action confirmed the findings of an administrative law judge.  The ALJ made his findings after numerous days of hearings.  The board took only 30 minutes to confirm the Judge’s recommendation.

 
Today’s decision once again confirms the legitimacy of Kline’s initial investigation and serves as additional evidence of Sebelius’s involvement in protecting Tiller.

by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat

• The Indianapolis Star has a puff piece on Planned Parenthood of Indiana CEO Betty Cockrum.
• The Kansas State Board of Healing Arts has revoked the medical license of late abortionist George Tiller’s one-time “rubber stamper” abortionist, Ann Neuhaus:
  

  The administrative judge concluded in February that Neuhaus performed inadequate mental health exams in 2003 on 11 patients, aged 10 to 18. The judge said Neuhaus’ records didn’t contain the information necessary to show that she did thorough exams, and the patients’ care was “seriously jeopardized.”

  “Her actions clearly show a disregard for her patients’ safety and care, which causes her to be a threat to any future patients she might have,” said Reese Hays, the attorney on the board’s litigation team who presented the case against Neuhaus.

• Miami’s local CBS affiliate has the story of an in-utero surgery in which a tennis ball-sized tumor was removed from Lyna Gonzalez’s mouth at 17 weeks gestation (ultrasound pictured left):
  

  During her pregnancy, Gonzalez’s doctors discovered a benign tumor the size of a tennis ball growing on her unborn baby’s mouth. Doctors told Tammy there was little chance her daughter would survive birth – and if she did, she would require an immediate tracheotomy in order to breath and have multiple surgeries thereafter….

  On October 1, 2010, Lyna Mykaella Gonzalez was born healthy, weighing 8 pounds, 1 ounce. The only sign of the surgery is a tiny scar on her mouth.

• MSN India has a story on a couple whose sex-selection abortion business was shut down:
  

  Sources in the police said the couple has admitted to running the abortion clinic but is not revealing the exact details. A sting operation conducted two years ago on the Mundes had revealed their willingness to conduct an abortion on a seven-month pregnant woman for just Rs 2,500 [about $44 USD].

  Advocate and activist Varsha Deshpande, who runs the NGO Lek-Ladki Abhiyaan, said: “Our scrutiny on them has revealed that they conduct, on an average, 20 abortions per day, which comes to 7,200 abortions in one year. The Mundes are known to be in collusion with a lot of doctors from remote districts in Maharashtra as well as Andhra Pradesh, from where people come to them to get their ultrasound examinations done.”

by Susie Allen, host of the blog, Pro-Life in TN, and Kelli

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• Parenting Freedom highlights a study which suggests bearing more children increases a woman’s lifespan:
  

  Compared with women who had no children, those with two had a 17 percent decreased risk of death. For women with three children there was a 20 percent decreased risk, and this pattern largely continued with additional children.

• Moral Outcry exposes the fact that notorious late-term abortionist LeRoy Carhart is a member of the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice Board of Directors:
  

  … [T]his man who is synonymous in our nation with late-term abortion is working hand-in-hand with leaders from the United Methodist, Presbyterian USA and Episcopal churches , as well as the YWCA….

  If you are partnering with these churches, you are partnering with abortion, and you are working with one of the most notable late-term abortion doctors in our land today. This isn’t just about money; it’s about connection, affiliation and loyalty.

• Pro-Life Wisconsin unveils a new website, crisispregnancies.org (pictured left), which is especially designed for smart phones and could be a great help for sidewalk counselors. The site can help users locate the nearest crisis pregnancy center along with information on fetal development and other resources.
• Wesley J. Smith lists reasons we should not promote egg freezing and the postponing of motherhood. Smith calls it an “example of the ongoing consumerist imperialism” and believes it is “not the role of medicine to promote equality of the sexes.”
• Pro-Life NZ challenges the pro-choice mantra that abortion is a matter “between a woman and her doctor.”
• John Smeaton writes that the British Medical Association is currently debating euthanasia/assisted suicide and whether or not doctors should remain “neutral” on the issue. Smeaton encourages readers to participate in a poll to show opposition.
• National Pro-Life Radio reports that the same Indian abortionists who were recently found to have fed fetal remains from illegal abortions to their dogs have been charged with homicide “in the death of a 30-year-old woman undergoing a sex-selective abortion.”

by LauraLoo

Yes, we’re back to this controversial topic.

Air National Guard member Terran Echegoyen McCabe, who is shown nursing her twin daughters, says the act of breastfeeding in uniform is not new.  What was new was the public nature of the photo.

Both Terran and the other mom in the photo, Christina Luna, have been criticized and applauded since the photos started circulating. 

Are you for or against these military moms’ right to breastfeed while wearing their uniform?  Or should they not do so “out of respect for country and uniform” since it is offensive to some?

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I reported in January that pro-life activists in the Tampa Bay area of the Florida Pro-Life Network had picketed a performance by country singer Jodell Nauert, lead singer of of JoDell and the Mountain Road Band.

This is because Jodell is co-owner of three abortion clinics she inherited from her abortionist husband George when he died in 2007: Bread and Roses in Clearwater, All Women’s Health Center of St. Petersburg, and All Women’s Health Center of Tampa.

Now pro-life group Lifeguards has joined with the FPLN to continue dogging JoDell.

You could call them groupies of a different sort.

On June 15, the pro-life activists protested a release party for JoDell’s new cd, entitled JoDell, at the Carrollwood Cultural Center in Tampa (Warning: Vulgarity)…

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlfrFrqUUOg[/youtube]

Next the pro-life groups are planning an “Operation Flyer Works Extravaganza” at JoDell’s June 30 gig at The Angelus in Hudson. They plan to distribute flyers among the crowd.

The irony here is stark. The Angelus is a charitable organization that cares for disabled adults, both in group home and day care settings. JoDell (pictured right) apparently named her Christmas cd after the home. This performance will be a fundraising event. JoDell appears to have a heart for disabled born people but makes good money for murdering disabled preborn people, as well as healthy.

The Angelus has been made aware of JoDell’s killing clinics but refuses to cut ties with her.

As the pro-lifers wrote on their Facebook page promoting their next protest, “We applaud The Angelus for caring about disabled children. This event is only to inform supporters that an entertainer is in their midst who takes part in killing of the disabled ones whom The Angelus seeks to protect.”

JoDell needs to decide whether owning abortion clinics is worth the negative impact on her country music career. Because that’s just “How It’s Gonna Be”…

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqWjFajLBNs[/youtube]

No justice, no peace.

I am a writer because I have strong opinions. Those opinions on women’s rights come from my grandmother, who was raped, and my mother, who was raped at gunpoint by her husband, and who was jailed when she ran away from him.

My mother told me as a child and a grownup, that no one should ever tell me whether I should have a baby. How could I be any other kind of writer, any other kind of person?

~ Author Amy Tan of The Joy Luck Club fame, defending her criticism of Republican candidates via her Facebook page, as quoted by The Abortion Monologues, June 19

She goes on to explain the family’s history of rape, abortion, and suicide in the comments section.

by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat

• At The Atlantic Cities, Richard Florida discusses the geography of abortion in the United States. Much of it shows how incredibly wrong pro-choicers are when they act as if pro-life policies do nothing to affect the abortion rate (emphasis mine):
  

  First and foremost, the geography of abortion follows the red and blue political patterning of the states. It is positively associated with the share of state voters who voted for Obama in 2008 (.60 to .65) and negatively associated with McCain votes (-.58 to -.63). This is a dramatic change from 1974-1988, the period covered by the 1994 NBER study, which found that “extensive Republican or Democratic control in a state is uncorrelated with abortion rates.” …

  Abortion is most strongly associated with the fault-line of socio-economic class, across three key dimensions—income, education, and occupation. Abortion rates track closely with the wealth and affluence of states: the richer the location, the higher the rate of abortions (the correlations between the two range from .53 to .65). This effect is in line with previous studies and thus appears to be of long standing.

• The Detroit News has a lackluster editorial which attempts to argue that providing regulations on the abortion industry is bad because it would make abortions “needlessly costly and cumbersome.” The editorial claims abortion clinic regulations aren’t needed because “physicians already are personally licensed by the state and have to adhere to professional standards governing their treatment decisions. A state medical board will suspend or strip a doctor’s license if he or she violates the standards.”

  Later, it notes a report which showed a number of abortionists who have violated basic medical standards and are still licensed but claims new regulations aren’t need because “weeding out bad actors through heightened surveillance and enforcement of laws on the books would be a better approach than onerous new restrictions that discourage good doctors from providing the service. Perhaps the state’s enforcement division needs more inspectors.”

• Live Action has released another video showing two abortion clinics in North Carolina willing to perform sex-selection abortions. The local Planned Parenthood caught on tape has issued a statement from the national office. No word on whether the employee was fired or not:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0pdhjl2XDY[/youtube]

[Image via stkarnick.com]

by LauraLoo

This month’s TIME Magazine pushes a death agenda: remove feeding tubes from the dying elderly and get a cash bonus!

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWLHDM-wvJ4[/youtube]

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