Tuesday, July 4, 2017

Phill Kline Lost His Law License for Investigating Planned Parenthood and Can’t Get It Back

Phill Kline Lost His Law License for Investigating Planned Parenthood and Can’t Get It Back

 NATIONAL   MICAIAH BILGER   JUL 3, 2017   |   6:33PM    WASHINGTON, DC
Former Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline suffered another defeat in court this week after losing his law license after investigating the abortion giant Planned Parenthood.
On Monday, the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals rejected Kline’s appeal to sue the Kansas Supreme Court about the decision to permanently suspending his license to practice law,according to the AP. In other words, Kline cannot sue to get his license back.
From 2003 to 2008, Kline investigated and prosecuted Planned Parenthood and late-term abortionist George Tiller. As state attorney general and Johnson County district attorney, Kline said he found numerous violations of abortion and child sexual abuse laws by Kansas abortion facilities.
Before he could pursue charges, however, allegations of misconduct arose; and the Kansas Supreme Court suspended Kline’s license to practice law indefinitely. Many believe the move was politically motivated by abortion activists.
Kline strongly denies any wrong-doing. He has been appealing the decision since 2013.
Here’s more from the report:
A federal judge dismissed Kline’s case last year and said lower federal courts can’t take up the case because only the U.S. Supreme Court can review state supreme court decisions.
The federal appeals panel agreed.
The nation’s highest court refused in 2014 to consider Kline’s case.
Thomas W. Condit, a Cincinnati attorney who is co-counsel for Kline in the federal lawsuit, previously described the action against Kline as a “complete miscarriage of justice.”
“Phill Kline was a highly well-respected Attorney General who has a great respect for the rule of law,” Condit said in 2015. “I have spent enough time with him to know that beyond any doubt.  The idea that he ever attempted to lie or to mislead a court is preposterous.  The panel of attorneys who heard Kline’s disciplinary case and the jurists who sat in violation of the Kansas Constitution to attack his law license should be ashamed of their own lawlessness and the objective falsehoods in their own decisions.
“Mr. Kline set out to protect young girls from sexual abuse and to enforce the abortion laws passed by the people of Kansas.  What he encountered was the tentacles of the abortion industry, apparently touching and corrupting everything in its way.  This has been the worst abortion jurisprudence I have ever seen, and I have litigated pro-life cases for 26 years.  It can only be described by a four-letter word:  EVIL,” Condit continued.
According to Kline’s federal lawsuit, there was “unlawful, unconstitutional, dishonest and incompetent conduct” by the defendants, including:
  • special counsel appointed for a Johnson County grand jury, conspiring and crafting a secret agreement with Planned Parenthood that subverted the purpose of the grand jury;
  • an ethics panel composed of two (out of three) attorneys who had contributed money to the campaigns of Kline’s political opponents and refused to voluntarily disclose those contributions;
  • findings by that same panel that Kline was guilty of disciplinary rules that did not exist at the time of the alleged conduct;
  • Kansas Disciplinary Administrator Hazlett  breaking the very disciplinary rules that he is required to follow and enforce, and also deliberately withholding exculpatory evidence favorable to Kline, including the report of Hazlett’s own investigator;
  • repeated misrepresentation by the improperly constituted Kansas Supreme Court of Kline’s statements and conduct and of rules and case law to find Kline guilty of things he did not say and did not do.
Kline alleges that a number of pro-abortion leaders conspired against him because he filed felony charges against Planned Parenthood and Tiller.
The AP reported the Kansas health department in 2005 destroyed the state late-term abortion reports at the heart of the felony charges against Planned Parenthood. The pre-trial hearing for felony charges had been scheduled for Oct. 24, 2011. But because the original reports were discovered to be destroyed, the Johnson County District attorney’s office asked for a delay.
“Kline had obtained those records from the Kansas Department of Health and Environment when he investigated Planned Parenthood during his tenure as Kansas attorney general,” AP indicated. “Planned Parenthood later provided copies of the documents, but Kline contended that they did not match the ones that he got from the state for abortions performed in 2003. The records deal with reports that Planned Parenthood must file for each abortion. Planned Parenthood keeps one copy in the patient’s file and sends another to state health officials.”
One of the key people involved was pro-abortion politician Kathleen Sebelius, a former Kansas governor and former secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services under President Barack Obama.
In 2011, Kline wrote about the connection between Sebelius and Planned Parenthood:
The news of document destruction in Kansas does not come as a surprise for me. Rather, after a decade of obstruction, the latest indicates that the evidence of Kansas corruption to protect Planned Parenthood is leaking into the media.
Two weeks ago a hearing in a criminal case against Planned Parenthood was delayed. The delay was a result of the administration of current Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius destroying evidence of criminal activity while Sebelius was Governor of Kansas.
The evidence was destroyed at a time the Sebelius administration knew the documents were key to a criminal investigation of Planned Parenthood’s failure to report child rape. Planned Parenthood is an important and long-term political ally of Sebelius.


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Court Says Woman Should Abort Her 25-Week-Old Unborn Baby as Soon as Possible ( God Give Us Strength)

Court Says Woman Should Abort Her 25-Week-Old Unborn Baby as Soon as Possible

 INTERNATIONAL   STEVEN ERTELT   JUL 3, 2017   |   12:37PM   
The Supreme Court of India has been creating new precedents for when women may abort their late-term unborn babies.
Abortions are illegal after 20 weeks of pregnancy in India, except when the woman’s life is at risk. However, women increasingly have been petitioning the high court for permission to abort their unborn babies after the 20-week mark. Some cases have involved fetal abnormalities, while others involved young rape victims.
In the latest case, the court gave a woman who is 25-weeks pregnant permission to have her unborn baby aborted on Monday, according to NDTV. The 33-year-old woman is from Kolkata, but her name and her unborn baby’s sex are not identified in the reports.
The high court ruled that the baby can be aborted because the baby has a severe congenital heart defect and may die at birth or require multiple surgeries to survive. The judges also said the woman would suffer “severe mental injury” if she gives birth to her child, according to the report.
The judges told the woman that she may abort her unborn baby, but she must do it as soon as possible. The court made the recommendation based on a medical board’s review of the woman and her unborn baby. Some news reports say the woman now is 26 weeks pregnant.
The high court appears to be paving the way for new, broader abortion laws in the Asian nation. In the past few years, it has given several women permission to abort their unborn babies past the 20-week legal limit. The court’s decisions in these cases have been based on the likelihood of the unborn baby dying from his/her condition and the woman’s physical and emotional health.
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In February, the India high court rejected another woman’s request for a late-term abortion because her unborn baby had Down syndrome. The Free Press Journal reportsthe court said the woman’s life was not at risk and her baby should not be aborted simply because of the genetic disorder. The woman was 26 weeks pregnant at the time, past the point when her unborn child was viable outside the womb.
“It is sad that the child may suffer from physical and mental challenges and it’s unfortunate for the mother but we can’t allow an abortion…We have a life in our hands,” the court said in that case.
Last year, however, the high court gave a woman permission to have her late-term unborn baby aborted after she conceived the baby in rape and doctors detected a potentially fatal fetal abnormality, LifeNews reported. In January, it granted another exception to a woman whose late-term unborn baby was diagnosed with anencephaly, a brain malformation that typically is fatal, LifeNews reported.
Then, in a heartbreaking case in May, a medical board established by the court allowed a 10-year-old rape victim to have a late-term abortion. Dr. Ashok Chauhan, a panelist in the case, described the situation as “borderline” because the girl was about 20 weeks pregnant. The panel also mentioned concerns about the young girl’s physical and mental health.
Similarly, in 2015, the India Supreme Court also gave an exception to a 14-year-old rape victim who was past 20 weeks pregnant. At the time, the BBC reported a team of doctors decided the girl was not physically or emotionally fit to have a baby.
As LifeNews previously reported, the first judge involved in the case, Abhilasha Kumari, ruled differently. He said it was a difficult decision but concluded that the unborn baby is innocent just like the victim.
Kumari said: “Whatever be the circumstances in which the child was conceived, whatever the trauma of the young mother, the fact remains that the child is also not to blame for being conceived. It did not ask to be born. The child is innocent, just like the victim, its mother.”
However, the India Supreme Court overturned his ruling and allowed the unborn baby to be aborted.
At 20 weeks, an unborn baby already is fully formed and close to the point of viability (about 23 weeks). Late-term abortions also are risky and can be deadly for the mother as well as her unborn child.


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Ohio Gov. John Kasich Signs Bill for $1 Million for Pro-Life Pregnancy Centers (Why Only $1 Million why not 100 Million?)

Ohio Gov. John Kasich Signs Bill for $1 Million for Pro-Life Pregnancy Centers

 STATE   STEVEN ERTELT   JUL 3, 2017   |   12:21PM    COLUMBUS, OH
Late last Friday night, pro-life Governor John Kasich approved $1 million for Ohio Right to Life’s Parenting and Pregnancy Support Program as part of the 2018-2019 State Budget. The program, which was initiated by Ohio Right to Life in 2013, provides discretionary TANF dollars to life-affirming pregnancy centers across the state.
The renewal of the Parenting and Pregnancy Support Program marks the 19th legislative success Ohio Right to Life has achieved since 2011.
Throughout the spring, Ohio Right to Life brought pregnancy center directors, workers, volunteers, and clients to the Ohio Statehouse to advocate for the program. The program was the focus of our annual Pro-Life Legislative Day held in April. To further advance the legislation, pregnancy center directors joined us in testifying in favor of the program in April and June. Pat Todak, executive director of Heartbeat of Toledo, and Rosemary Prier, director of operations for Elizabeth’s New Life Center in Dayton, testified to having served over 4,000 women through the Parenting and Pregnancy Support Program.
Because of the work of Governor Kasich and the Ohio General Assembly, thousands of women and their babies will be served by this program. Pregnancy help centers are essential to building a culture of life here in Ohio because they offer women not only material assistance, but often emotional, medical, and educational support. By providing diapers, formula, cribs, parenting classes, prenatal care, counseling and mentorship, these centers are showing us what it means to care for the whole person and what it really means to be pro-life.
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The impact of this program is priceless. In a political climate that can often pit mother and child against one another, this program gives Ohio another way forward, showing the country the kind of state we want to be: One that loves them both.
Ohio Right to Life applauds Governor Kasich, Senate President Larry Obhof and Speaker of the House Cliff Rosenberger for their leadership in funding the Parenting and Pregnancy Support Program for the third consecutive budget.
Ohio Right to Life thanks the following pregnancy centers and organizations for their support for the program: Elizabeth’s New Life Center, Heartbeat International, Heartbeat of Toledo, Oasis of Hope, Pregnancy Decision Health Centers, Pregnancy Resource Clinic of Clark County, Right to Life of Northeast Ohio, and Voice of Hope Pregnancy Center.


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