Posted by
Temlakos on Saturday, February 10, 2007 11:53:06 AM
Details
here, with a host of informative links. At issue is the practice of George Tiller, MD, who has allegedly done abortions later than 22 weeks and without proper diagnostic backup, in violation of Kansas law. The local DA deliberately took the case away from the Kansas AG's office and filed for summary dismissal of the case--and a sympathetic judge granted it. Turns out that
Tiller's activist friends have contributed to that DA's campaign, and also that of the judge involved, and the new AG for Kansas, who is trying to quash the case that his predecessor began.
So now Senators Brownback and Roberts, and Congressman Todd Tiahart, have promised to investigate the matter at the federal level, this after pro-life activists in Kansas have now exhausted all remedies in that state.
This is the same state, BTW, in which Operation Rescue
bought an abortion clinic building out from under a failing abortion practice, evicted them, and then inspected the building. What they found ought to have been part of a B-grade motion picture, but it was all too real.
Bear in mind, also, the larger picture.
Fewer doctors are willing to perform abortions, or even to accept abortion training. Those that still are, aren't any too reputable. George Tiller's technical violations are one thing, but you also have abortion mills running with unlicensed staff. Those are signs of a desperate situation, and of people reacting to that situation in a desperate manner.
Dr. Tiller's time might come--or not--while he still walks this earth. But the bitterest irony in his mind, and that of his friends, must surely be that fewer people are willing to follow in his bloody footsteps.