Julie Burkhart
In what she no doubt thought was a clever entry Friday on her TrustWomen abortion advocacy website, Julie Burkhart called for the new Kansas Office of the Repealer to delete abortion ‘informed-consent’ requirements from 1997, as well as four new abortion-regulating laws enacted this July.
Burkhart, the former top aide to late-term abortionist George Tiller, left Kansas soon after the state Healing Arts Board filed to remove Tiller’s license in Dec. 2008. Burkhart is now itching to set up a new Wichita abortion clinic. She may be dreaming about reclaiming the approximately 2,500 non-late-term abortions that were done annually in Tiller’s clinic until his death 2 ½ years ago. At an average abortion cost of $500-$600, the clinic could gross $1.5 million.
For Burkhart to call for repealing every law constraining unethical conduct at her hoped-for abortion clinic is like a notorious slum landlord calling for repeal of home safety inspections and fair housing laws under the claim that such regulations impede providing more affordable housing to the poor.
Although Burkhart began her ‘sore loser’ list of complaints with a tongue-in-cheek premise, she was dead serious about these assertions:
- abortion helps poor women;
- abortion is part of ‘maternal’ care;
- abortion of disabled children is economically beneficial;
- private abortion clinics should not be held to the same patient protections required of surgery centers and hospitals;
- new abortion regulations have been enacted against the will of Kansans.
None of those claims are true. Kansas pro-life laws were certainly not whisked into place by whim! The health insurance law operated for decades in the eastern part of the state. Laws that license and inspect clinics, that end late-term abortion fraud and the violation of parental rights, and that rein in governmental corruption in regards to abortion were begged for by many, many thousands of citizens who signed Kansans For Life-initiated petitions sent to legislators and the state Healing Arts Board.
Burkhart says clinic clients don’t deserve full informational disclosure, but in what other business would that fly? Burkhart’s diatribe is full of distortions, including this year’s mantra from the national abortion spinmeisters: that pro-life, women-protecting legislation is a war against women. If anything, such legislation is pushback against decades of abortion clinic malpractice, protected by political payola. Here are just two examples:
- The action that the state Healing Arts Board has scheduled at next February’s meeting against abortionist Kris Neuhaus is a matter they should have ended twelve years ago when federal restrictions to her license were issued and her medical incompetence discovered.
Malcolm Knarr
- The Aid for Women clinic which incubated Neuhaus and other ‘medical washout’ abortionists has been a hotbed of malpractice for twenty years. It should have been shut down, however, the Board’s pro-abortion executive director wouldn’t close it. The owner/abortionist, Malcolm Knarr, escaped Kansas criminal prosecution and has financially profited many years from the clinic. The ultimate irony is that this disreputable business successfully attained a legal injunction blocking implementation of the new Kansas safety regulations!
Abortion profiteers wage the real war against women.
