Attorney General Paul Morrison on Tuesday promised legal action against the psychiatrist who spoke out about the records of late-term abortionist George Tiller:
Dr. Paul McHugh, who led Johns Hopkins University's psychiatry program for 25 years, said Monday that his review of the medical records from a Wichita abortion clinic did not back up the diagnoses used to justify late-term abortions. He also said that he had not been contacted by Morrison since he took office in January.Mary Kay Culp, Executive Director of Kansans for Life quickly responded. "This is an outrage and illustrates the lengths the Dr. Tiller and AG Morrison will go to cover up the truth!" she said. "Dr. Tiller and his lawyers are surely at their shrillest right now and those who have benefited from his massive financial involvement in Kansas politics have been given their marching orders, and marching they are! Marching all over the first amendment!"Morrison fired back Tuesday with a stinging letter to McHugh, saying his public comments about the case threaten the integrity of the investigation and violate rules of conduct for physicians. Also, Morrison disputed McHugh's claim that he had not been contacted by Morrison's office and threatened to file disciplinary or legal actions against McHugh if he continued to speak publicly about the case.
No aspect of this case has been without great controversy and dispute. The most outrageous aspect of this mess is that killing of the unborn - up to the point of birth - continues without significant legal dispute in the once great state of Kansas.
Last January former Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline commented with insight and intensity about the twisted nature of justice in his state:
...as often happens with the issue of abortion, the true is not told. You know that issue starts with a lie, as all evil does, and to perpetuate itself, it layers lie upon lie upon lie upon lie, until it ends in destruction. What we have witnessed in Kansas is, really the permeation of Roe into Judicial thinking, such that, as we stand here, there is a case in Kansas filed against me when I was attorney general, arguing that it is unconstitutional for abortion clinics to be required to report child rape, because it invades the privacy of the child...even though all of us know that the child's privacy was invaded by the rapist, not those who seek to help her.In the same interview Kline describes how his office obtained the records that are both the basis of his allegations as well as McHugh comments.As we stand here in Kansas right now, there was an effort to dismiss criminal charges against late term abortionist George Tiller, who performs abortions only on viable children, primarily.
[Tiller] is the premiere late term abortionist in the western hemisphere. The criminal charges alleged that he violated Kansas late term abortion law, which prohibits such abortions unless the mother's life is in jeopardy, which never happens. In over 7 years of reporting in Kansas, and over 60,000 abortions, the mother's life was never the reason for an abortion.
