Over 100 Criminal Counts Filed Against Planned Parenthood in Kansas
Wow!! Now this is good news to wake up to this morning.
Johnson County, Kan., District Attorney Phill Kline (R) on Wednesday filed more than 100 felony and misdemeanor counts against Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri’s Overland Park, Kan., clinic Comprehensive Health for allegedly providing illegal late-term abortions, among other crimes, the New York Times reports. According to the Times, the charges include 29 felony counts of providing false information and 84 misdemeanor counts of failing to determine viability for a late-term abortion, unlawful late-term abortion and failure to maintain records (Saulny, New York Times, 10/18).
Kline on his Web site said he would not comment on the filing. PPKM CEO Peter Brownlie said that the clinic did not perform any abortions past 22 weeks of gestation. He added, “We always provide high-quality care in full accord with state and federal law” (New York Times, 10/18). Irigonegaray, who is a listed witness, declined to comment about the charges but said, “We will carefully review the documents … and simply wait and see what this is all about.” Ashley Anstaett, spokesperson for Morrison’s office, said that Morrison will not be doing any further investigation of the clinic. She added, “We are skeptical that these charges have any merit,” and “[w]e continue to wonder how much politics influenced Mr. Kline’s decision to file these charges.”
Mary Kay Culp, executive director of Kansans for Life, said, “I’m really thankful that we have someone with the courage to enforce” laws that “protect not only unborn children but their young mothers” (Kansas City Star, 10/17). According to Troy Newman — president of Operation Rescue, which is leading a coalition seeking signatures for a petition to convene a grand jury to investigate whether the clinic adhered to state abortion laws — said Kline’s filing “vindicates what the pro-life movement has been saying for years — that Planned Parenthood has been guilty of illegal abortions, illegal misrepresentation, falsifying records and skirting every possible law for their own benefit.”
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Michelle Malkin has more here.
