Breaking news: KS Board of Healing Arts charges Tiller with 11 disciplinary counts
You read that right.
As opposed to the 60,000 babies he has aborted, George Tiller’s legal troubles have lived to see another day.
Immediately after a jury yesterday cleared the KS abortionist of 19 charges of breaking KS law by getting a 2nd opinion for late-term abortions from an abortionist with whom he had financial ties, the KS Board of Healing Arts released the following statement (click to enlarge)…
So, as the New York Times noted:
The trial is not the end of Dr. Tiller’s legal problems. The state Board of Healing Arts is investigating a complaint that mirrors the accusations made in the trial.
KSBHA’s timing is obviously noteworthy. KSBHA actually filed its complaint in December but held off the announcement until mere moments after the Tiller verdict. It appears someone(s) told KSBHA to sit on it so as not to risk accusations of tainting the jury, and in the subsequent event of a criminal conviction, give cause for an appeal.
What jurors didn’t get, KSBHA does, arguing in its petition:
Licensee [Tiller] and Dr. Neuhaus had a symbiotic relationship. Without the second opinion referral from Dr. Neuhaus, Licensee would not be able to provide the service of pregnancy termination to any patient beyond 22 weeks gestation. Dr. Neuhaus was dependent on referrals from Licensee as a source of her practice. Dr. Neuhaus did not have any patients except for those provided by Licensee. There was a legal or financial affiliation between the physician performing or inducing the abortion and the referring physician. Dr. Neuhaus’ referral was not independent.
The 11 specific cases KSBHA cites are awful:
14-year-old girl who was 26 weeks pregnant, July 2003
10-year-old girl who was 28 weeks pregnant, July 2003
15-year-old girl who was 26 weeks pregnant, August 2003 15-year-old girl who was 28 weeks pregnant, August 2003
15-year-old girl who was 25 weeks pregnant, August 2003
14-year-old girl who was 25 weeks pregnant, August 2003
15-year-old girl who was 25 weeks pregnant, September 2003
13-year-old girl who was 25 weeks pregnant, November 2003
15-year-old girl who was 25 weeks pregnant, November 2003
18-year-old girl who was 25 weeks pregnant, November 2003 16-year-old girl who was 29 weeks pregnant, November 2003
KSBHA is charging Tiller “has committed acts likely to deceive, defraud or harm the public.”
If KSBHA finds Tiller guilty, it can revoke, suspend, or limit his license as well as impose fines. Kansans for Life reports KSBHA is under a new Executive Director, Jack Confer, so perhaps Sebelius’ stronghold is cracking.
Thus, it appears Ellie’s congratulatory email was a tad premature…
[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.
I’m up way too late and I WAS drinking some tea ‘n honey to relaz….but now! My brain is on high alert.
This is not over yet Mr. Tiller, America will know the real you. You don’t deserve the DR. in front of your name. Doctors take oaths that they abide by, you don’t.
A 10 year old girl! This girl must have been sexually abused and SOMEONE got away with it.
Wow, Mr. Tiller….I don’t know how you sleep at night!?
Hooray! Justice is given a second chance! Hooray! Hooray! Hooray!
How is abortion the only answer to a women’s unwanted pregnancy. The fact that we allow abortions is indicative of a society which does not understand that a world of childlessness is equally devastating as a woman who decides to abort a child that someone may have loved and adored.
He may have been “vindicated” here, but he will answer to God one day for all the lives he has taken.
I was jolted to see the charges yesterday and posted a link. What timing. Any real M.d. that is not in trouble wouldn’t want to work for tiller’s mess. Nauhaus was on probation for suspension and couldn’t open a free standing practice. This hearing as i posted yesterday doesn’t allow for a row of attorneys representing him. They get to sit there and keep quiet. There is no appeal process to a higher court. There are no court cases for dismissal and other of a series of antics they did on the last case.
What’s needed: prayer warriors! Lots of em. We need to pray and fast that this man is put where he belongs – jail.
We shall see. I’m tired of getting my hopes up. I thought they’d slap him down for killing Christin Gilbert.
But then again, it could be that Larry left behind some ticked-off rival who isn’t about to let old Larry be the final word.
Where’s the KHBSA when Tiller is hiring people off the street to care for and supervise aborting women?
Where are they when women are sent to hotels to abort? Are there no safety or public health issues here?
This board actually has standards? Could have fooled me.
Ellie Squeal may well have been a tad premature. This may be a long, drawn out, and expensive fight.
With the ages of the girls involved, it seems likely that these were all girls who hid their pregnancies for as long as possible. Then, when things became apparant, they were taken to Tiller to “fix” things.
Sad.
Oh Asitis,
This never happens? hmm…looks like it does!
Lauren, it is sad. Just think of how he has ruined their entire lives.
And their parents- did they give them a CHOICE?
I doubt it, Bethany. How many times have we heard “pro-choicers” say something along the lines of “if my daughter gets pregnant, I’ll make her abort!”?
Recently, several of them have said it. “Choice” flies out the window so quickly, huh? How can they even still use that term as if it meant something.
I know. It’s so disingenous to say that they support “choice.”
They believe that there are most certainly times when a woman “should” abort and if that woman is their daughter…well they’ll make sure she makes the right “choice.”
It’s disgusting!
One thing that helps comfort me right now is Psalm 37.
Members of Kansas Board of Healing Arts Gave Nearly $25,000 to Gov. Sebelius’ Campaigns
http://kansasmeadowlark.com/2008/03-30.htm
Careful…this may be a way of completely clearing Tiller so he can continue his demonically inspired practices.
As satan is trying to destroy each one of us born people, and through Tiller and those like him, are destroying millions of unborn babies, do not think that the prince of darkness is not orchestrating this whole mess.
Do not worry though….the Lord is very clear:
Romans 12:18-19
18 If it is possible, as much as depends on you, live peaceably with all men. 19 Beloved, do not avenge yourselves, but rather give place to wrath; for it is written, “Vengeance is Mine, I will repay,” says the Lord.
efg,
How reassuring to the public that the KHBSA maintains its objectivity at all times and puts protection of the public first and foremost.
As Christine said, I too am tired of getting my hopes up that this evil sick man will get shut down.
How much longer can he afford to keep defending himself? His attorney fees have to be crippling him.
Or, have the good people of Kansas finally had enough of this sociopath’s actions giving their state a bad name?
Mike, he brings home 500k/ yr just from his late term abortions. Who knows how much he makes doing early abortions. He has deep, deep pockets.
Sigh.
Yes!!!! I certainly hope that the Board of Healing Arts doesn’t go through this inquiry with their brains half asleep like the jury seems to have in the criminal case. At least they seem to comprehend the issue better than the jury did. The criminal trial was a farce, just as I was afraid it would be.
Also… TEN YEARS OLD?! I hope that was reported to the appropriate authorities! Good grief, people! The sicko responsible for impregnating that poor girl to begin with needs to go to jail. At any rate, he has the blood of his deceased (aborted) child on his hands now.
I agree with the other commentators about the irony of the pro-“choice” movement re: forcing their pregnant daughters to “make the right choice” (i.e. get an abortion or else!). There are SO MANY WOMEN who abort because their parents/boyfriend/husband/other family members FORCE them to do it using threats (threats to kick them out of their home, alienate them, even threats of bodily harm). Sometimes the woman who “exercises her freedom of choice” really didn’t GET to choose at all. “Choice” is a misnomer.
I’m shocked that a 10 year old is pregnant – they don’t do that in my fam. :( I pray that someday Tiller will get his …
Obviously Tiller doesn’t have the conscience of the man who wrote ‘Amazing Grace’ – remember the movie? He had 20k men’s blood on his conscience EVERY DAY and they were the ghosts that followed him around.
I wouldn’t get too excited if I were you. The complaints against Dr. Tiller which the Board is considering are just a rehash of the legal charges of which he was acquitted. It took the jury less than an hour to figure out that Dr. Tiller and Neuhaus are ASSOCIATED but not AFFILIATED. The Board will take less time to figure this out.
But don’t feel bad–you can always mount … ANOTHER grand jury! All you need is so many signatures on a petition. There’s no limit–literally none–to the money the State of Kansas can waste chasing Dr. Tiller!!
A 10 year old girl! This girl must have been sexually abused and SOMEONE got away with it.
Wow, Mr. Tiller….I don’t know how you sleep at night!?
Posted by: AK Krystal at March 28, 2009 1:54 AM
I keep seeing this allegation, but don’t know what facts support it. Tiller has not been accused of failing to report this case to authorities. He very well may have done so. Or the parents may have (no evidence that this was done without parents’ knowledge and consent)
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A good examination of Tiller’s aquittal is found here…How Sebelius subverted the Tiller Trial
http://worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=93586