Jan.22 2009, Marching for Life in Topeka
Lifenews.com summarized the national pro-life stories that dominated in 2009, and we offer highlights from Kansas pro-life legislative and political news this past year:
January
- over 1,500 students and families joined KFL’s annual Topeka rally with tape over their mouths protesting the state Supreme Court’s ‘gagging’ of a Topeka judge’s testimony about Planned Parenthood alleged felonies
February
- Using arguments submitted in KFL legal brief, Judge Clark Owens rejects objections to first-ever criminal trial against George Tiller (for post-viability abortions in 2003 without independent physician referrals)
March
- State AG’s office blows criminal case against George Tiller but state Healing Arts Board reveals ongoing effort to revoke his license
- Gov. Kathleen Sebelius signs ultrasound & abortion information law to secure position as HHS head for Obama administration
April
- With HHS position secured, Gov. Sebelius vetoes late-term abortion regulation bill
- Senate flubs override of late-term bill veto
May
- New Gov. Mark Parkinson reverses family planning money directed to local health agencies to go to Planned Parenthood
- Tiller is murdered and his Wichita infamous late-term clinic closes
July
- KDHE undermines online information required under new Woman’s Right to Know & See Act
- Under same law, Healing Arts Board correctly produces anti-coercion posters for abortion clinics & posts new duties of licensees online
August
- Gov. Parkinson completely eliminates annual grant money for pregnancy help centers, in second attempt by lawmakers after Sebelius did so earlier in session
September
- After KFL press release, AG releases notice that the ‘Aid for Women’ decision (favoring non-reporting of minors at clinics) is void; the verdict was opposed by lawmakers in a KFL -commissioned brief
- KFL submits dossier for Healing Arts Board to expedite discipline against Tiller associates still licensed by Kansas
October
- KFL delivers 15,000 new hand-signed citizen petitions to Board, requesting revocation of Tiller associates for illegal late-term abortions
- Director Jack Confer resigns after 16 months trying to clean up the State Healing Arts Board
December
- Nebraska abortionist LeRoy Carhart fails to open threatened late-term abortion facility in Kansas
- Delayed state Supreme Court ruling (expected in June 2009) keeps judge gagged and Planned Parenthood prosecution stalled
- As HHS head, Sebelius comforts pro-abortion group with online explanation of how Nelson/Reid health care bill language guarantees federal abortion funding with accounting trick
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