Gosnell aides’ guilty pleas show KS abortion rules needed

The Pennsylvania grand jury criminal indictments at the “House of Horrors” abortion clinic of Kermit Gosnell was an extra “real-life” incentive for Kansas to pass abortion facility licensure and regulation this spring. Yesterday, two Gosnell staffers– neither one trained or licensed for the work they did –each pleaded guilty to a variety of charges, including [...]

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Kansas pre-natal video website wildly successful

Kansas pro-lifers could never have imagined that our state interactive website showing pre-natal development videos would achieve 10,000 hits—let alone in one month! But that happened in September, and, coupled with a state-wide increase in the number of free, life-affirming crisis pregnancy and adoption centers, makes for a great Respect Life Month in Kansas. While [...]

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KS PP prosecution delayed by state-destroyed evidence

The pre-trial hearing for the felony prosecution of Planned Parenthood of Mid-Missouri Kansas has been delayed til Nov. 9  because 23 Planned Parenthood-specific state abortion reports have been discovered as destroyed. Judge Stephen Tatum granted the continuance due to the state’s plea that only recently had they learned that crucial evidence for proving a forgery [...]

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Sebelius agency destroyed evidence for PP criminal case

Another layer to the depth of the Sebelius abortion corruption has been revealed with today’s AP report (here, updated here) that in 2005 the Kansas health department (KDHE) destroyed the state late-term abortion reports at the heart of the felony charges against Planned Parenthood. The pre-trial hearing for felony “false-writing” charges had been scheduled for [...]

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Marten orders Kansas to pay clinic, doesn’t fear reversal

Shortly after Tuesday’s 45-minute hearing, federal district Judge Thomas Marten once again issued a written ruling stomping on Kansas’ state sovereignty. He allowed the ACLU-represented Dodge City Family Planning (DCFP) clinic to join Planned Parenthood in halting the new Kansas family planning proviso. This marks the third failing clinic Marten has funded through an injunctive [...]

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Judge Marten hearing recalls past rebuked injunction

On Oct. 11, Judge Thomas Marten allowed the 2-person Dodge City Family Planning (DCFP) to piggyback onto Planned Parenthood’s lawsuit against Kansas’ Title X new eligibility requirements. Marten agreed DCFP had a claim to “irreparable harm” under the state proviso that Marten has repeatedly declared violates federal language. The failing southwestern Kansas clinic wants $40,000 [...]

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Judge Marten injunctions, Kline saga & Neuhaus evidence

Three politically-charged events are actually deeply interlocked: unjustified injunctions from Judge Thomas Marten, a state Supreme Court-supervised panel ruling against Phill Kline, and the defense lawyer for Kris Neuhaus showing abortion files without permission. The state of Kansas is currently appealing a Title X injunctive order for Planned Parenthood from Judge Marten, which echoes a [...]

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Judge Marten lets ACLU/Kansas clinic join PP lawsuit

Today, federal Judge Thomas Marten unsurprisingly acquiesced to ACLU’s petition that the Dodge City Family Planning (DCFP) clinic join the Planned Parenthood lawsuit over Title X money distributed by the Kansas state health department. The clinic wants immediate reinstatement of their prior Title X state contract for nearly $40,000 (plus attorney fees), and wants the [...]

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ACLU wants more Kansas money issued by Judge Marten

Now that Judge Thomas Marten has been found willing to violate Kansas state sovereignty by ordering Title X payments to Planned Parenthood without a contract, the ACLU is demanding another failing clinic get a piece of the action. In August, Marten granted Planned Parenthood a halt to the new Kansas budget proviso directing that Title [...]

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Mammogram questions reveal risks, still hide abortion

October is breast cancer awareness month, in case you haven’t seen the pink ribbons on practically every consumer item. According to last week’s bulletin from the state health department (KDHE), 1,916 women were diagnosed in Kansas with breast cancer in 2007 (the most recent year for which statistics are available). In 2009, 369 women and 3 [...]

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