Phil Kline is the Republican “pro life, crusading” DA who has been investigating the Johnson County Planned Parenthood of Kansas since 2003. He was the KS Attorney General from January 2003 to January 2007. He lost his re-election for AG to the (now disgraced, and resigned) Paul Morrison in November 2006.
The case has been filled with road-blocks like this:
District Judge Stephen Tatum scheduled the hearing for 10 a.m. after a state agency last week filed a motion to quash a subpoena from District Attorney Phill Kline. The subpoena seeks certified copies of reports regarding late-term abortions from the Kansas Department of Health and Environment.
The health department contends the records contain confidential patient information that cannot be turned over.
The 107-count complaint, which Kline filed in October, accuses Planned Parenthood of forging and failing to maintain abortion records and of performing illegal late-term abortions.
Human Events did a good job covering Kline’s uphill battle back in January:
The legal wars between Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri and Kline boil down to two simple points: first, Kline alleges — and has taken to a grand jury — evidence that Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri routinely fails to report sexual abuse of children and its doctors perform illegal partial-birth abortions; second, that this particular Planned Parenthood — which denies all these charges — has, with its Kansas political and media allies, undertaken to discredit and destroy Kline.
If Kline is successful, he’ll be the first to bring down a Planned Parenthood operation on criminal charges.
Related:
Michelle Malkin exposes racism at Planned Parenthood clinics.
Hat tip: Crime Scene KC
April, 2, 2008 at 11:27 pm
Hey Deb, how much you want to bet that video is never embedded at CSKC?
(Nothing personal James. Corporate guidelines, I know. )
April, 2, 2008 at 11:47 pm
I’d post it.
What video?
April, 2, 2008 at 11:53 pm
The video on michelle malkin’s site exposing PP for their racist donations. You may not want to though, because Michael Jackson does the background music.
April, 2, 2008 at 11:59 pm
That video is shocking, isn’t it?
But yeah…I have a no Michael Jackson music rule, here.
April, 3, 2008 at 12:01 am
By the way, what do you know of Hart’s politics? He seems kind of conservativish.
I’m just curious. I know he’s supposed to be objective.
April, 3, 2008 at 12:45 am
You know, I have to give that guy some serious credit for maintaining the appearance of objectivity. I’ve honestly never been able to pin him down one way or another. Right when I think I have him profiled he pulls a switch. He’d make an exceptional master criminal.
It kind of surprises me after working at both the Star and the Ultra Leftist Houston Chronicle, I always had a pretty good intuition as to what lurks in the minds of the common news hound.
One thing is for sure though. A conservative in a newsroom these days, is usually an expert at not letting it be known. I knew within 5 minutes exactly what I was supposed to think when I entered the Houston Chronicle for the first time, and I wasn’t even hired yet.
April, 28, 2008 at 10:15 pm
He has no case against them. I am not saying I am for late abortion or anything illegal but he has spent so much time trying to build a case and where is it i have not seen one. Bad move on his part