Planned Parenthood Clinic Faces Charges

Kansas Clinic Charged With 107 Counts, Accused Of Performing Late-Tem Abortions

(AP)  Planned Parenthood's Overland Park, Kan., clinic was charged Wednesday with 107 counts, including accusations that it provided unlawful late-term abortions.

Johnson County prosecutor Phill Kline charged the clinic with 23 felony counts and 84 misdemeanor counts, according to court records. Besides 29 misdemeanor counts of providing unlawful late-term abortions, the clinic is charged with multiple counts of making a false writing, failure to maintain records and failure to determine viability.

Case documents have been sealed, according to a court order. The first hearing is set for Nov. 16.

Kline's office did not immediately comment on the charges.

Peter Brownlie, president and chief executive officer of Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri, said Wednesday that the group hasn't had any contact with the district attorney's office but has heard rumors for months that Kline, an abortion opponent, was planning to file criminal charges.

"I've heard nothing at all about specific charges that have been filed," Brownlie said in a telephone interview. "We always provide high-quality care in full accord with state and federal law."

As for allegations that Planned Parenthood performed illegal late-term abortions, Brownlie said its clinic doesn't perform any past the 22nd week of pregnancy.

Attorney General Paul Morrison previously reviewed all of the allegations upon which Kline's criminal charges are based and found no wrongdoing, Morrison spokeswoman Ashley Anstaett said.

"The attorney general did a thorough review of Planned Parenthood and found no wrongdoing," Anstaett said. "We are skeptical that these charges have any merit, and we continue to wonder how much politics influenced Mr. Kline's decision to file these charges."

Kline's charges came less than four months after Morrison closed his investigation and told Planned Parenthood's attorneys that he found no wrongdoing by the clinic or its personnel.

Morrison reviewed records Kline had obtained as attorney general. Elected to the statewide office in 2002, Kline began an investigation into Planned Parenthood and a clinic operated in Wichita by Dr. George Tiller a few months after taking office; a legal dispute over the clinics' records lasted more than two years.

Morrison, an abortion rights Democrat, defeated Kline, a Republican seeking his second term, in the November election.

Morrison had previously served as Johnson County district attorney, winning elections in the county as a Republican before switching parties to challenge Kline. Local GOP activists then picked Kline to fill the county vacancy.

Kline, Morrison and Planned Parenthood are embroiled in another lawsuit pending before the Kansas Supreme Court. Planned Parenthood sued Kline, and Morrison later successfully intervened on the state's behalf.

Documents in that case remain sealed as well, and neither Kline nor Planned Parenthood have discussed it.

But Morrison warned Planned Parenthood's attorneys in June that Kline appeared to still have access to copies of patient records he had obtained as attorney general.

Morrison said those records were forwarded from the attorney general's office to the district attorney's office a few day before Kline left the attorney general's office.

[dmhphils]

What good does this do? What good does this type of hate do? I grew up in a time when legal abortions were NOT available and people you do NOT want to go back to that time.... I''''m telling you these people are control freaks who KNOW they are sending desperate women back to coat hangers but do they care??? OF course not! Their thinking now is the same as then..it serves them right!! Sieg Heil and Amen.




Posted by MCVet at 10:14 PM : Oct 17, 2007
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Which one sounds more hateful? Telling the woman you need to live with the fact that you are pregnant and have the baby or give it up for adoption, or, saying we know you didn''t really mean to get pregnant so lets just kill the little guy by ripping his body apart in the womb. Don''t worry about the screaming, he can''t be heard.
Hate is killing the unborn child.

[dmhphils]

Hey, I got no problem with birth control, but what ever happen to "self-control"? Nobody has any. We want to pop a pill for everything.....I surprized we even eat food anymore instead of just takin a pill. I think some of the posts I''ve read here were indeed written by parasites and nebulous blobs that should have experienced the saline abortion or maybe even late term.

[dmhphils]

Why is it that men and women don''t see that they have made their CHOICE when they choose to make a baby? Nobody wants to be accountable for their actions these days. Everybody wants to hit the sack together and screw the consequences. There was a doctor who did a surgery on a 21 week old baby in the uterus and suddenly after the doc repaired the baby''s spine and was closing the incision in the uterus, the hand of the baby reached through the incision and grabbed the doc''s finger. When he tried to pull his hand away, the little guy just wouldn''t let go and his arm stretched out through the hole. It was all photographed by a pro-abortion dude who became pro-life right there. These bozos who talk about tadpole babies are willfully blind and dumb.

[paganwitch]

Why are there still unwanted pregnancies in the USA ? Are you women SOOOOOOOOOOOO dumb we have to fill your ***** with quik-dry cement to keep you from overbreeding ? JackSteen1
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Maybe we should cut-off the male''s, um, "pride" to stop the over-breeding. How''s that sound Jack? Is that a good solution for you? No? Why not? Sounds about as good as your solution.

[catlady1412]

Morrison is highly regarded in KC. He successfully prosecuted serial killer John E. Robinson (the women in barrels guy) and is considered tough on crime, generally has street cred around here as a guy with integrity. Phil Kline is pretty much a joke as he only drags out these abortion charges to get attention and then tucks them away after causing a stink. He was also dragged thru the local press because apparently he got those medical records in a less than ethical manner when he had Morrison''s job. I hate abortion, but I also hate government officials digging in personal medical records too! Especially for personal motives! Kline has no qualifications to interpret anybody''s medical records, no MD, nothing! He is just a political hack, poking his nose into something he personally will never have to worry about. Maybe he should be willing to have his medical records posted on the Internet for all to review.

[keithle1]

Lots of ladies men/playas out there getting multiple women pregnant & doing their best to dodge child support.

I have no problem with men having vasectomies. The more the merrier. Whatever it takes to stop the woman getting pregnant. We don''t need any more unwanted babies. What is the point of EVERY woman who gets pregnant having the baby/ies? You want to put every
unwanted baby up for adoption? Who is adopting black babies? (Ones born in the USA anyway.)

Why are women in this day & age having unprotected *** with men they''re not married to? Are all these women ignorant & poor? What is going on in their heads that makes them think this is a good thing to
do?

[mypatch]

We are doing this all wrong. It''s always the women that have to do the dirty work. I think laws should be passed that if a man sires more than 2 children then he must have a vasectomy. That would stop a lot of unwanted babies. What da ya think?

[keithle1]

Government should give women money to get sterilized.
Throw in a free cellphone.

[gmond]

Just another scheme to tie up another Planned Parenthood clinic in legal hassles, hoping they will go bankrupt.

I wish abortion was made illegal under any and all circumstances, just so these fanatic psycho right-to-lifers would have no more political or legal agenda and nothing else to do with their miserable empty hate-filled lives.

[grammawhamma]

Morning-after pill: Emergency birth control

What can you tell me about the morning-after pill? How does it work?
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Mayo Clinic breast-health specialist Sandhya Pruthi, M.D., and colleagues answer select questions from readers.
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The morning-after pill %u2014 a form of emergency birth control %u2014 is used to prevent a woman from becoming pregnant after she has had unprotected vaginal intercourse. Morning-after pills are generally considered safe, but many women are unaware that they exist. Here''s how the morning-after pill works.

Human conception rarely occurs immediately after intercourse. Instead, it occurs as long as several days later, after ovulation. During the time between intercourse and conception, sperm continue to travel through the fallopian tube until the egg appears. So taking emergency birth control the "morning after" isn''t too late to prevent pregnancy.

The active ingredients in morning-after pills are similar to those in birth control pills, except in higher doses. Some morning-after pills contain only one hormone, progestin (Plan B), and others contain two, progestin and estrogen. Progestin prevents the sperm from reaching the egg and keeps a fertilized egg from attaching to the wall of the uterus (implantation). Estrogen stops the ovaries from releasing eggs (ovulation) that can be fertilized by sperm.

[ukclh33]

Posted by sbbm

Clearly the parents are the crack wh*res and pimp daddys if they aren''t noticing that their daughters are pregnant

[kansas1946]

And by the way, he filed all sorts of charges against a Wichita doctor about late term abortions, blah...blah...and they were all thrown out. These charges will be thrown out in Johnson county too, and this guy will be gone next election.

[ukclh33]

I don''t agree with late-term abortions, however, if these woman could put the crack pipe down for longer than a second and realize that they are pregnant a little sooner, late-term abortions at "planned-parenthood" would not need to be performed, ignorance can be overcome with education!!

[michellem99-2009]

I am for the health and well being of the woman but there is a fine line. I think the issue is churches have got to allow birth control and the tubes fixed so their are no babies born to those who can''t take care of them and the child will end up abused/used for state aid. I heard of womens going to the back alley to have this done. There are times it is needed and it is not entered into lightly. Them doctors need toLlisten to their female patents with health issue when they they want to be fixed. Most are worried about being sued. In WA they raised the roof over the morning afther pill.

[rudy654-2009]

I don''t like this habit that prosecutors have of abusing the law for political gain. We saw it with Duke University, Jena, and now this. It is frightening to see that just about anything a prosecutor wants to do, he or she can with almost complete impunity.

[grammawhamma]

MyIDonCBS: I believe in birth control and the morning after pill...I don''t believe in abortion. You say no one knows when life begins? Maybe not...but I can tell you that an abortion proceedure is when a life is ended.

Those complaining about the cruelty of lethal injections for death row prisoners should instead worry about the cruelty of late term abortions. And no...I am not for the death penalty either.

[myidoncbs]

"Baby Killers! Baby Killers!" - That''s what they say.

Only problem is: this is a Religious Conviction, not a scientific fact. Nobody knows when "life" starts. Personally, I think everything starts out unmanifest, then becomes manifest, then returns to the unmanifest, perhaps to repeat the process over and over again in a very long and arduous quest for perfection. But until there is clear scientific agreement on whether or not that parasitic little mass sucking the life out the "mother to be" is a human life, I wish the Christofascists would just keep their little prejudices to themselves, and not try to force everyone else to live their lives the way THEY want them to.

Besides, if you''re against abortion, you should be rabidly, fanatically PRO birth control. Unfortunately, the very same whack-jobs who get all lathered up about "baby killin''" are profoundly, and unbelievably stu-pidly, against birth control! What nuutjaarvies!

[sparks224]

"Abortion should not be used as birth control."
Posted by KEITHGARDNER

No, birth control should be used as birth control. Another thing the dumb, inbred, hillbilly crackers are against.

[kansas1946]

Yup, ole Phil Kline, we are well aquainted with him here in Kansas. He has been on a witch hunt ever since he was elected. He went after a doctor in Wichita, and during that was defeated by the Johnson County DA by a huge margin. Then the Johnson county Repulicans nominated him to fill that post. Poor Johnson county (part of Kansas City) has to put up with this nut until the next election, and here he is again on his witch hunt. He is nutty as a fruit cake.

[mcvet]

And I''''m sure the conclusion reached by the pro-abortion Attorney General had nothing to do with his views on the issue. It''''s always the OTHER side who is motivated politically.......

SusanHelit...you cannot be serious.....but please be honest.

Posted by blazercoach1 at 09:26 PM : Oct 17, 2007
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So in your poor tortured mind because the man was pro choice...he never said he was pro abortion and there IS a HUGH difference, he can''t determine if laws are broken? Not MUCH of a NAZI are you? ROFLMAO You freaks actually believe the Government and some sleazy snake oil salesman who does dirty things to kids are better equipped to make a decision like this for a woman than she is??? You are truly pathetic humans...truly pathetic!! Sieg Heil and Amen.