Kansas voters challenge state Supreme Court process

The James Madison Law Center filed suit Thursday in federal court on behalf of Kansans who oppose the current system of nominating justices for the Kansas Supreme Court as unconstitutionally denying ordinary voters an equal voice. Kansas attorneys have the most unrestricted power of any state in the union to hand-select state Supreme Court justices.  [...]

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Virginia abortion clinics fear new state regulation

Virginia state Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli issued an opinion Tuesday that their state health agency can institute standards for currently-unregulated abortion clinics –and abortion supporters are fuming that such oversight will close clinics. As always, their concern is the abortion business bottom line, not sanitation and safety for women. Like Kansas, Virginia abortion clinics largely [...]

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Court stops Obama’s embryonic stem cell funding

A U.S. district court today slapped down President Obama’s order to ignore federal law banning federal tax-funding of destructive human embryonic research. Judge Royce Lamberth granted the injunction after finding that the federal lawsuit –filed by researchers whose work uses non-embryonic stem cells– would likely succeed. The lawsuit against the National Institutes of Health argues [...]

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Rucker exonerated; Court & ethics office lies exposed

Kansans for Life rejoices that the Kansas attorney-ethics panel has dropped all the slimy Court-instigated charges against Eric Rucker, chief aide to former AG Phill Kline. Rucker’s attorney, Caleb Stegall, called the ruling, “a vindication of what Mr. Rucker has maintained all along, that he was wholly innocent of the charges that he lied and [...]

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Kansas needs Senate confirmation of state justices

Elections truly have consequences, but Kansas attorneys have the most unrestricted power of any state in the union to hand-select state Supreme Court justices. (see details and comparisons to other states at Kansas Watchdog) The Kansas Supreme Court is composed of 7 justices: 2 appointed by Gov. Bill Graves, 4 by Gov. Kathleen Sebelius, and, [...]

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Abortion loophole in Kansas universities’ health coverage

Kansas pro-lifers battled against inclusion of abortion coverage (see here and here ) when the state Regents in 2006 restructured health insurance for public universities at Emporia, Fort Hays, K-State (Manhattan), KU (Lawrence), KU-Med, Pittsburg and Wichita. But abortion coverage still got in there. The current United Healthcare policy, designed for undergrads, graduate students and [...]

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Embryonic researchers show bias as in “Climategate”

As part of her 2006 Kansas gubernatorial re-election campaign, Kathleen Sebelius heavily promoted creating a “stem cell superhighway” between Kansas and Missouri, with the prime mover being the Kansas City-based Stowers Institute. Such research would include destructive hESCR (human Embryonic Stem Cell Research) although great pains were taken to disguise the truth by always substituting [...]

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KFL-supported Kansas House candidates win 2-1

Tuesday’s election primaries saw 31 Kansas House races where Kansans for Life’s endorsement or recommendation was in play.  Our candidates won about twice as often: 20 wins and 11 losses, with 5 House races decided by less than 250 votes. And a loss in the primary doesn’t mean the district will have pro-abortion representation, because [...]

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“Tiller legacy” group makes robo-calls for Schodorf

The Trust Women PAC (political action committee) is making robo-calls on behalf of Jean Schodorf, the sole pro-abortion GOP primary candidate in the Wichita-area 4th district congressional district race. The phone message is voiced by hard-line abortion defender and former Kansas Senator, Pat Ransom, saying former U.S. Senator Nancy Landon-Kassebaum also supports Schodorf. But this [...]

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New Kansas Catholic Bishops’ voting guide

Kansas Catholic Bishops have issued “Election Year Questions and Answers”–a brochure “to help clarify the implications of candidates’ positions on issues of importance to Catholics.”  It states that Catholics must gives precedence to issues that directly involve matters of intrinsic moral evil: abortion, embryonic stem cell research, euthanasia, assisted suicide, and same-sex marriage. It reminds [...]

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