We are stunned by this violent and lawless act which must be condemned and should be met with the full force of law. We join in lifting prayer that God’s grace and presence rest with Dr. Tiller’s family and friends.

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The following is an abbreviated timeline of events in Kansas.  This details some of the struggles in the effort to ensure that Kansas laws protecting children and preventing late-term abortion on viable children are enforced.

The Kansas Battle Timeline - abbreviated

2002 and before: Dr. George Tiller of Wichita performs thousands of late-term abortions justifying them under the “severe fetal anomaly” exception in Kansas law. Dr. Tiller claims down’s syndrome, cleft pallet and even healthy twins may be aborted late-term under the exception. Prosecutors do nothing.

2003: As Attorney General Phill Kline launches an investigation into illegal late-term abortion and failure to report child rape. Kansas has a mandatory reporting law requiring medical providers to report sexual abuse of children.

2003- mid 2004: Now public records show that more than 100 children under the age of 14 had abortions in Kansas, yet SRS records reflect only 4 or 5 reports of sexual abuse of minors who had an abortion.

September 2004: Kline’s office presents substantial evidence and Judge Richard Anderson finds probable cause to believe that records at Planned Parenthood and Dr. Tiller’s clinics contain evidence of crimes. Anderson issues a subpoena for the records. Working with Anderson, Kline did not seek the names of the adult patients in the records.

October 2004: The abortion clinics sue Judge Anderson and Kline seeking to have the subpoenas quashed. The Kansas Supreme Court accepts the extraordinary and unusual lawsuit and stays the execution of the subpoenas until January 2006. By this time, the statute of limitations had run on many of the crimes Kline was investigating.

February 25, 2005: After the Kansas Supreme Court ordered the investigation to be public through the public filing of briefs; the clinics hold a news conference and claim that Kline is demanding the personal and private and most intimate records of 90 women and children. The Kansas media piles on with the Kansas City Star leading the way, at one time depicting Kline in a cartoon molesting a young girl on a park bench. For this, the Star wins Planned Parenthood’s “Maggie Award” for journalistic excellence.

Spring 2006: The Kansas Supreme Court rules that the Kline may receive the records. In October of 2006, two years after the initial subpoena and as Kline is leaving office, he receives the records. Medical records with identities are subpoenaed every day for criminal prosecutions and are typically received in one week.

Spring, Summer, Fall 2006: Kline is named a “domestic terrorist” by Planned Parenthood, along with US Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts. Planned Parenthood and Dr. Tiller and their political affiliates pour millions into Kansas to defeat Kline. A conviction by Kline could cost Planned Parenthood $325 million of annual federal funding.

December 2006: Kline charges Dr. Tiller with 30 criminal counts including 15 counts of illegal late-term abortion. The charges show that Dr. Tiller claims that “single episodic severe depression,” “anxiety disorder,” and “adjustment disorder” meet the Kansas late-term abortion exception of “severe and permanent impairment of a major bodily function.” Kline meets with and informs Sedgwick County District Attorney Foulston that he is filing the charges. District Court Judge Eric Yost reviews Kline’s evidence and finds probable cause to believe Dr. Tiller committed crimes.

December 2006: The day after the charges were filed, DA Foulston, without notifying Kline, went to another District Court Judge and obtained an order dismissing the charges, claiming that Kline did not have the authority to file the charges. Kline appeals the decision and appoints a special prosecutor as he is leaving office. Incoming AG Paul Morrison fires the special prosecutor on his first day in office and later dismisses the appeal. The Kansas media reported that Kline lost the appeal rather than the fact that Morrison essentially dismissed his own appeal.

January 2006: Kline and Morrison switch jobs with Kline firing eight employees and Morrison firing over 40. The media, however, focuses on Kline and he is sued again. The suit is resolved without any funds being paid to the 8 employees who Kline had ordered to be paid a severance.

January - May 2007: AG Morrison makes repeated attempts to have Kline ordered to give up his evidence relating to Planned Parenthood. Judge Anderson refuses. AG Morrison has his own set of records and Kline, with Anderson’s approval, brought a copy to Johnson County to continue his investigation. Regardless, when AG Morrison is unable to force Kline to give up his copies, AG Morrison and Planned Parenthood sue Kline and AG Morrison sues Judge Anderson. The Kansas Supreme Court accepts both suits. AG Morrison denies Kline state coverage and Kline is forced to pay for his own defense.

June 2007: AG Morrison announces “technical charges” against Dr. Tiller. Kline predicts the charges will fail. At trial, the AG’s office only puts on one witness and stipulates that every abortion performed by Dr. Tiller was “medically necessary.” AG Morrison refuses to refile Kline’s initial charges for which Judge Yost found probable cause. AG Morrison also states publicly that he “clears Planned Parenthood” of any criminal wrongdoing.

October 2007: After a two-day, eight hour hearing, Judge James Vano of Johnson County finds probable cause to believe that Planned Parenthood committed 107 crimes, including 23 felonies. Kline files the charges.

October 2007: The Kansas Supreme Court orders Kline to go to trial in the AG Morrison/Planned Parenthood case against him. The trial is held in secret in the Supreme Court building in December of 2007. Kline’s legal expenses skyrocket. AG Morrison claims that Kline’s keeping of copies of the records, with Judge Anderson’s permission, constitutes the “theft of state property.”

December 2007: AG Morrison resigns and Governor Sebelius appoints AG Six.

January 18, 2008: Judge Richard Anderson testifies in Kline’s case against Planned Parenthood. In now public pleadings and testimony, Judge Anderson states that “it appears that someone committed felonies to cover up” crimes and that he took some of the Planned Parenthood records to a handwriting expert who concluded they appeared manufactured.

May 2008: Without informing Kline, AG Six’s office goes to the Kansas Supreme Court and obtains an order that Judge Anderson cannot testify in Kline’s case. It is by order of the Kansas Supreme Court that Judge Anderson has the original records produced by Planned Parenthood and now by order of the Kansas Supreme Court the records are not to be produced by Judge Anderson. The order is one paragraph long and does not cite any statute, case law or other authority. Kline seeks to intervene in the Supreme Court to change the order, but is denied. The order still stands but Kline initiates an appeal.

June 2008: The Kansas Supreme Court denies Planned Parenthood’s and AG Morrison’s lawsuits seeking to have Kline give up his copies of all the records. The opinion is written in a very aggressive tone against Kline by Justice Carol Beier who suggests that the Disciplinary Administrator for Lawyers take a hard look at Kline. Later it is leaked to the press that the Disciplinary Administrator, who works for the Supreme Court, plans to proceed against Kline and two of his Chief Deputies. The tone of Justice Beier’s opinion draws a rebuke by Chief Justice McFarland and Justice Davis.

Winter 2008-2009: Kline is forced to appear and testify in a motion’s hearing in now AG Six’s criminal charges against Dr. Tiller. Dr. Tiller claims that the charges should be dismissed because of “outrageous conduct” by Kline. Again the Kansas media reports the allegations in sensational fashion. Judge Owen later denies the motion. In the Spring of 2009, Dr. Tiller is acquitted of the charges originally brought by AG Morrison and forwarded by AG Six. Charges Kline declined to file on the evidence he obtained as AG. Yet, the substantive charges initially brought by Kline have never been reinstated or prosecuted.

May 31, 2009 Dr. George Tiller is gunned down in cold blood as he serves as an usher in his church in Wichita. Pro-life leaders condemn the violence. Later, Scott Roeder of Merriam, Kansas is arrested and charged with first degree murder. Mr. Roeder has a criminal record that involves illegally possessing bomb making materials, has participated in anti-tax extremism and has a history of mental illness.

Now: Kline’s charges against Planned Parenthood are still pending and the Kansas Supreme Court order silencing Judge Anderson is still in effect. The Kansas Supreme Court has not ruled on Kline’s appeal for the Court to reverse its own order silencing the Judge. Justice Beier has strongly encouraged the Kansas Disciplinary Administrator to act on Planned Parenthood’s numerous complaints and Kline is again being forced to pay substantial legal fees for his defense. Kline is now leading a national effort to reveal the truth about abortion and is affiliated with the Life Issues Institute of Cincinnati, Ohio which was founded by pro-life pioneer Dr. Jack Willke and Mr. Brad Mattes. Kline also serves as a Visiting Professor of Law at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia.

The Measure of History - Lincoln’s Personal Bible

By Phill Kline

            Truths, beyond the reach of powerful leaders, order history.  President-elect Abraham Lincoln failed to recognize this.  President Abraham Lincoln lost his life because he did.

            It is fitting that President Barack Obama assumed office with his hand on the same Bible on which President Lincoln first assumed office, for when Lincoln first became President, President Obama could have legally been a slave.

            Obama’s Presidency is a national milestone and a significant personal achievement for Mr. Obama, his family and those who supported his candidacy.  The same is true for Mr. Lincoln - from log cabin to the White House, Lincoln defeated the odds.  Yet, Lincoln’s Presidency is not measured great by such.  Rather, it is the issue Lincoln desired to avoid, was forced to face, and while struggling with  - finally chose right, that renders President Lincoln a great man and President.

            The “slavery question” was festering in America prior to the American revolution.  Regardless, great  men sought compromise with evil and allowed the stain of slavery on American soil as our nation was founded.  But  “truth keeps marching on.”  Americans struggled to reconcile the “self-evident truth that all men are created equal” with the obvious truth that in America many were more equal than others and some not considered human at all.

            Leaders stated that “coloreds” or “negroes” were naturally inferior and destined to be “nurtured” in the plantation family.  As slavery apologist and author William John Grayson wrote in 1855: “(the negro) is lazy and improvident…slavery…ensures homes, food and clothing for all.”[i]  In Grayson’s mind, the black race could not survive without the beneficence of white lordship. 

            Recognized theologians and religious leaders joined the chorus.  In an 1822 letter to the Governor of South Carolina, Richard Furman, President of the Baptist State Convention, stated that slavery was clearly “supported by the Holy Scripture” and was beneficial to the slave in that the slave “become(s) part of (a) family” where he is provided all that he truly needs.[ii]

            Author George Fitzhugh in his 1854 book writing “the negro race is inferior to the white race, and living in their midst, they would be far outstripped or outwitted in the chase of free competition.” [iii]

            I wonder what Mr. Fitzhugh would say to President Obama.  Yet, more important for our times, what would President Obama say to Mr. Fitzhugh.

            Slavery, during the life of Mr. Fitzhugh, was protected by law, enshrined in our constitution and Americans had the right to support or reject slavery: they could refuse to own a slave if they did not support the institution.  Americans had choice.

             President Obama would be forced to argue to Mr. Fitzhugh what is now “self-evident” - that any free nation is not free unless it enshrines human dignity into law such that; the power of one person’s life over another, is not allowed to define the value of the other’s life.  This is the American promise.  And a President Obama is a reflection that America is coming to terms with that promise on the issue of race.

            But Mr. Fitzhugh would have a counter.  Slavery is justified, he would say, because the slave’s life would be miserable away from slavery.  (”Every child a wanted child.”)  Ending slavery would wreak economic hardship.  (”Ending abortion would force millions on welfare.”)  A colored is not human and therefore not a citizen.  (”Biologically speaking…an embryo is far more primitive than a fish or a bird,” writes abortion supporter Christian Beenfeldt for the June 2006 issue of Capitalism Magazine.[iv]  People should be free to choose, Mr. Fitzhugh reasoned.

            In 1860 President-elect Lincoln snuck into Washington to become President on a midnight train in order to avoid assassination.  Jefferson Davis was inaugurated President of the Confederacy two weeks earlier. 

            Lincoln’s personal Bible was left behind in his luggage, not arriving for days.  Accordingly, Chief Justice Roger Taney asked the Supreme Court Clerk to find a Bible.  He did, and Lincoln placed his right hand on the Bible, just as President-elect Obama did on the same Bible a few days ago.

            In his first inaugural address, Lincoln sidestepped the slavery issue stating: “I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists.”

            Within four years, President Lincoln gave this nation two of its most precious gifts: the Emancipation Proclamation and Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address - an address from which President Obama claims inspiration.  On this second occasion Lincoln took the oath on his personal Bible.  Less than two months later, Lincoln was dead.

            President Obama called for a healing in this nation and he calls on the words of Lincoln’s  second inaugural address in which Lincoln concludes - “with malice toward none, with charity for all….” 

            Mr. Lincoln did call for healing, but only if the nation joined in the recognition that the evil of slavery could not exist within the shores of a free nation.  Lincoln was charitable to those who would abide by this truth but called forth resolve to defeat those who would not. 

            For in the previous sentence Mr. Lincoln writes “if God wills that (this war) continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman’s two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn by the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said, ‘the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether…with malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in….”

            President Obama did not mention abortion once in his inaugural address despite the issue being the most divisive in our nation.  Just as President Franklin Pierce did not once mention slavery in his only inaugural address in 1853, less than a decade before the issue plunged the nation to war.

            On abortion, politician Obama has survived through political calculation, deception and with gratitude to a self-indulgent culture full of distraction and willful ignorance.  And his first actions have been aggressively opposed to this significant civil rights issue.  Yet, President Obama will not escape the judgment of history.

            We will speak and read of the economy, foreign affairs and military action during his Presidency.  But the success of the Obama presidency will be determined by whether he leads us to the fullness of the dream - that every human being will be valued in this nation with just and righteous laws that protect the right to live.

            And then, and only if he provides such leadership, will President Obama have earned the right, though maybe not the political support, to be sworn in to his second term of office, with his right hand on the Bible President Lincoln used in his second swearing in ceremony - Lincoln’s personal Bible - which is well worn and was, by Lincoln, well understood.

Pro-aborts lose another round to Phill Kline

Posted: December 10, 2008
1:00 am Eastern

© 2008

Four times in four years Wichita late-term abortionist George Tiller or Planned Parenthood of Kansas has sued Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline or Johnson County District Attorney

Phill Kline for investigating them. They have also filed hundreds of pages of ethics complaints, which continue nonstop to this day.

Despite a hostile Kansas Supreme Court, the majority of whom were appointed by a hostile governor who gets campaign money from Tiller and who has even hosted a party for him at her mansion, and various other hostile public officials who are on the dole for Tiller and/or Planned Parenthood, nothing has stuck to Kline.

Despite every attempted roadblock, the criminal investigations against Planned Parenthood and Tiller continue for allegedly violating state laws prohibiting late-term abortions and mandated reporting of underage abortions.

Kline’s investigation is so solid two pro-abortion Democrat AGs who wanted the case gone have been forced to continue prosecuting Tiller.

And four judges in five instances have reviewed Kline’s evidence and found probable cause to believe George Tiller or Planned Parenthood has committed 156 criminal acts (although earlier this year the Supremes without reason forbad the judge holding the original records indicting Planned Parenthood from testifying).

In this latest round, Planned Parenthood bizarrely asked the Kansas Supreme Court to let it sue its prosecutor, Kline, in a secret hearing, and the Supremes more bizarrely said sure.

Planned Parenthood asked the Kansas Supreme Court to hold Kline in contempt for transferring copies of redacted Planned Parenthood records from his old AG’s office to his new DA’s office, to fine Kline, to order Kline to return to Planned Parenthood the incriminating records against itself, and to force Kline to pay Planned Parenthood’s legal fees for suing him.

Kline’s AG replacement, Paul Morrison, sided with Planned Parenthood and then denied Kline representation, forcing Kline to personally pay for his own legal defense. To date, Kline’s bills amount to $200,000. (Donate to offset his legal fees at standwithtruth.com.)

Shortly after meddling in the case, Morrison was forced to resign for having an affair with one of Kline’s subordinates and asking her to spy on him.

None of these developments has shocked the sensibilities of the mainstream media. Instead they have mercilessly and relentlessly turned on Kline with a vengeance, because the issue is abortion.

Meanwhile, Planned Parenthood lost its latest lawsuit last week on all merits:

a) that Kline be ordered to hand over all evidence and that it be suppressed – DENIED

b) that Kline be held in contempt – DENIED

c) that Kline be fined – DENIED

d) that Planned Parenthood receive attorney fees – DENIED

The Supreme Court justice writing the majority opinion, Carol Beier, an appointee of Gov. Kathleen Sebelius , was clearly angry she couldn’t find a way to stop the decision. She lashed out at Kline so vehemently that upon first read of the opinion the mainstream media thought Kline lost the case, and reported it so.

Perhaps I’m too kind simply to dismiss the media as being unable to read. Kansas media has a history of writing court decisions against Kline regardless of what the decisions actually state. Recall the time Planned Parenthood sued Kline to stop him from obtaining the records in the first place. Kline won and got the records, but the Kansas media reported he lost.

After castigating Kline as well as the woman who bore him, Beier wrote the Supremes were “sanctioning” Kline to give copies of Planned Parenthood’s records to the AG he had already offered to give but had been declined.

Beier closed by warning that while they had nothing on Kline now, be ready for something, anything, to pop up in the future to cause the suspension of his license.

“I’ll get you, my pretty, and your little dog, too,” Brier would have written had she not feared accusations of plagiarism.

Never doubt the abortion industry and its supporters in public office, the courts and the media are trying to make an example of Kline to intimidate all other prosecutors around the country from messing with them.

Soon Kline’s days as Kansas prosecutor will be over, and he can rest as a faithful servant whose job was well done … after he pays his $200,000 in legal fees.

Then all eyes will be on the spines of Steve Howe, Kline’s elected replacement, and his babysitter, pro-life Kansas U.S. Sen. Sam Brownback, who supported Howe over Kline in the Republican primary.

Kansas has one of our nation’s most restrictive late-term abortion laws, yet George Tiller of Wichita, Kansas is on our nation’s leading abortionists of late-term viable unborn children.  Mr. Tiller justifies his abortions under Kansas law by diagnosing that the mother is suffering from “severe single episodic depression,” “anxiety disorder,” or “adjustment disorder” due to the pregnancy.  This information came to light when former Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline filed charges against Tiller.

Mr. Kline retained the services of Dr. Paul McHugh, one of the world’s most esteemed psychiatrists.  Dr. McHugh was Chair of the Johns Hopkins School of Psychiatry for more than 25 years.  Dr. McHugh reviewed Mr. Tiller’s files to determine if the late-term abortions on viable unborn children met with the Kansas legal requirement that two doctors find that the mother would suffer “servere and irreversible impairment of a major bodily function” if the abortion was not performed.

Dr. McHugh’s conclusions were that (1) not one abortion was justified under the Kansas law; (2) Mr. Tiller’s psychiatric conclusions were not supported by the evidence in the file (Mr. Tiller is a trained pathologist); (3) the reasons given for having an abortion (if I have a child I cannot afford a babysitter to attend a rock concert) may have seemed significant to the patient but in psychiatric terms are not; (4) the conditions diagnosed were not permanent; and (4) abortion is not a treatment for any of the conditions diagnoses.

Dr. McHugh’s conclusions were partially based on a 2000 legal opinion issued by then Attorney General Carla Stovall who is pro-choice.  Kline was elected in 2002.  In her opinion Stovall found that the Kansas late-term language allowed an abortion for mental health reasons but that the mental health reasons must be “permanent and substantial.”  (A video interview of Dr. McHugh regarding Mr. Tiller is found after this story).

Mr. Tiller’s logic, however, is that if a woman does not want to give birth to a child and she is required to give birth to a child - then she has suffered severe and irreversible impairment.  This ignores logic and the law.

First the law states that the “pregnancy” must cause the severe and irreversible impairment and the pregnancy is temporary.  The law is designed to prevent a requirement to go through pregnancy when the mother might suffer catastrophic harm.  This happens for example when she has an ectopic pregnancy or suffers preeclampsia.  A full term pregnancy in these conditions could lead to serious repurcussions for the mother.

The law is designed to protect the mother and the fetus when the fetus has reached viability.  But in Mr. Tiller’s clinic “the woman is the patient and the fetus is the problem.”  This quote is taken from an introduction video that Mr. Tiller requires all of his patients to view.

And so, in Mr. Tiller’s world the presence of the fetus in and by itself, renders severe and irreversible damage to the mother’s bodily functions, until treated with abortion.  This is entirely convenient because an abortion is then justified under all circumstances at any time in gestation - even while the fetus is being born and when the fetus is viable.  In other words, abortions cannot be restricted - ever.

Mr. Tiller is protected in these absurdities by a supprtive District Attorney Nola Foulston of Wichita, an avid pro-abort Kansas media elite (there are truly only 7 or 8 journalists who cover the issue in Kansas and who direct the focus of stories) pro-abortion Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius and the millions of dollars of political monies Mr. Tiller and Planned Parenthood have poured into Kansas to defeat and demonize effective pro-life leaders like Mr. Kline.  (Mr. Kline’s charges, which were supported by a judge’s findings that the evidence presented probable cause to believe that Mr. Tiller committed crimes, were dismissed when DA Foulston found a  separate judge, who did not review any of the evidence, to dismiss the charges claiming the Attorney Generral did not have authority to file such charges, Kline was not present during or even notified of the 10 minute meeting Ms. Foulston had with the traffic court judge who dismissed the charges).

Kansas may choose to live in this alternative universe in order to protect one of their state’s leading industries - the killing of viable children moments before birth so the mother can attend rock concerts - but the rest of the world, fortunately, does not.

Two recent studies have concluded that women who choose abortion rather than giving birth and adoption in circumstances involving unwanted pregnancies suffer a much greater risk of having emotional and psychiatric difficulties.  In other words, studies show that Mr. Tiller’s “treatment” exacerbates the problem.

A recent American study published in the 2008 Journal of Psychiatric Research finds that women who have an abortion face a 126% increase of drug dependency; 120% greater risk of alcohol abuse; a 111% increase in panic attacks brought about in anxiety disorders, a 59% increase in post-traumatic stress disorder and a 45% increased chance of major depression.  (read more here).

The research team was led by Dr. Priscilla Coleman, professor of Human Development and Family Studies at Bowling Green University.  (Coleman PK et. al., Induced abortion and anxiety, mood and substance abuse disorders: Isolating, Journal of Psychiatric Research (2008), doi: 10.1016/j.jpsychires.2008.10.009.)

Additionally, researchers writing in the British Journal of Psychiatry have concluded the same: women facing unwanted pregnancies who choose abortion face a greater risk to their mental health than women facing unwanted pregnancies who chose to give birth.  (Fergusson D, Horwood LJ and Boden JM (2008) British Journal of Psychiatry, 193: 444-451).  The study followed more than 500 New Zealand women for several year You can read more here).

Kansans may choose to live in world where late-term abortions on viable children are justified despite the law and woman reap the consequences from poor care but fortunately, thanks in part to Dr. McHugh, Ms. Coleman and the British Journal of Psychiatry, the rest of the wold does not join the chosen ignorance of Kansans.

Dr. Paul McHugh Interview

The abortion of a child late-term is the most cherished and protected right in Kansas. For a video review of the Kansas abortion issue click here.

Thanksgiving Day, November 27, 2008

This morning I am again amazed at the glory of God reflected in His creation. Today’s sunrise painted brilliant colors and although winter’s hibernation loomed, the crisp air was full of life. All preparation is in anticipation of Spring and presentment of plenty. His promises are present for our tomorrows. In such I give thanks.

It seems illogical to experience such peace and joy while also feeling such deep ache, fear and anger. Such conflict often leaves me voiceless. How to explain a faith that sustains and provides hope while being fearful for tomorrow? How to explain the majesty of God’s truth reflected in all of creation while being deeply hurt by the inability of the world to see truth and the inability to express truth in a way that is heard? How to be abandoned to God’s calling while being angered at the cost? How to joy at God’s grace and its working in my life while feeling the sting of a world full of judgment? How to be in the world and not of the world?

read more here

This video was produced by Kansas City radio journalist and author Jack Cashill in the Spring of 2008 in an effort to explain the complexities of the Phill Kline’s efforts to enforce Kansas abortion laws. The video runs 10 minutes.

Secret court orders silencing witnesses, millions of campaign cash flowing to pro-abortion government officials, unexplained judicial delays and mainstream media ignoring relevant facts. The saga of trying to hold the abortion industry accountable to the law continues in Kansas - the nation’s leading late-term abortion capital.

This is the lead of Denis Boyles article published by National Review Online.

Read the full story here.