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Tiller will seek investigation of Kline, O'Reilly
Wichita Eagle ^ | 11/05.06 | John Hanna

Posted on 11/6/2006, 7:33:52 PM by pryncessraych

TOPEKA - Wichita abortion provider George Tiller will ask the Kansas Supreme Court to investigate Attorney General Phill Kline and Bill O'Reilly over the Fox television host's comments that he obtained information from Kansas abortion records, Tiller's attorneys said Saturday.

They said Tiller wants the court to appoint a special prosecutor to handle the investigation and take possession of the records of 90 patients from two clinics. They said he will make his requests Monday.

Kline spokeswoman Sherriene Jones said the attorney general doesn't know how O'Reilly obtained his information.

She said the Supreme Court isn't the proper place for such requests and said Tiller's plans are a "political ploy."

"They're just trying to create a media frenzy just days before the election and once again are trying to confuse and lie to Kansas voters," she said.

Friday night during a national broadcast of "The O'Reilly Factor," the host said while interviewing Kline that a "source inside" told the show that Tiller performs late-term abortions when a patient is depressed, which O'Reilly deemed "executing babies."

He also said his show has evidence that Tiller's clinic, off Kellogg just east of Oliver, and another unnamed clinic have broken Kansas law by failing to report potential rapes with child victims ages 10 to 15.

Late-term abortions are illegal in Kansas unless physicians determine the pregnancy could put the woman's physical or mental health at risk.

Source of info unknown

Tiller's attorneys, Pedro Irigonegaray of Topeka, and Lee Thompson and Dan Monnat of Wichita, issued a joint statement decrying the "national media event."

"The fears about threats to the sanctity and privacy of medical records were well-grounded," they said.

O'Reilly did not say whether his information came from the records of 90 patients from Tiller's clinic and a clinic operated in Overland Park by Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri. Kline waged a two-year battle to obtain those records and received edited versions of them Oct. 24.

It wasn't clear Saturday whether O'Reilly or his staff had viewed any records themselves. A request to Fox in Washington to interview O'Reilly or someone associated with his show wasn't answered Saturday.

"We don't know anything about Mr. O'Reilly's inside source," Jones said. "I assumed he was talking about somebody on the inside of the abortion clinics."

Asked about the possibility that the information came from a clinic insider, Irigonegaray said, "That's preposterous."

Campaign issue

Patient privacy has been a major issue as Kline is running for a second term against Paul Morrison, the Johnson County district attorney. Morrison has repeatedly criticized Kline for seeking abortion clinic records, saying it invaded patients' privacy. Kline says he's not investigating any patient, only potential rapists and doctors who may have broken Kansas' abortion laws. He maintains that patients' privacy has been protected.

"Phill Kline told us these records would be kept private, but now that Phill Kline has them, the host of a national talk show Kline is on says he has seen the records," said Mark Simpson, Morrison's campaign manager. "O'Reilly would not be claiming to have seen the private medical records of Kansans if Phill Kline had not violated Kansans' privacy by seizing the records."

Irigonegaray said in an interview that he was outraged both by O'Reilly's remarks and by Kline's failure to demand answers from the television host about where he received his information. Irigonegaray said the records contain no evidence of wrongdoing by the clinics.

"This has been our concern from the beginning, that if he ended up with these records, that just this type of event would occur. Our worst nightmare has happened," Irigonegaray said. "Women in America deserve better than this."

Staff reviewing records

Kline confirmed last week that he'd received the records from Shawnee County District Judge Richard Anderson, edited so that individual patients could not be identified.

Kline said he's turned the records over to staff who are reviewing them to prosecute possible cases of child rape, forcible rape, incest, illegal late-term abortions, failing to report sexual abuse of a child and making a "false writing."

"There's only a limited number of people within the attorney general's office who have access to those records, and I can assure you that none of them have shared that information beyond the investigators and prosecutors who are reviewing the cases," Jones said.

O'Reilly told viewers Friday night that his program has been investigating Tiller for a year. Now, he said, it has evidence about abortions in Kansas.

Kline suggested during his interview that O'Reilly inferred that late-term abortions had been performed for mental health reasons, given that state statistics show none have been performed to preserve a woman's life or to prevent permanent damage to a physical bodily function, two other reasons they are allowed.

O'Reilly replied: "Our information says that on almost every medical sheet -- and obviously we have a source inside here -- it says, 'depression.' I don't know whether you have that information or not -- I don't know -- but that's what it says."


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; US: Kansas
KEYWORDS: abortion; getteller; kansas; murdererteller; prolife
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This article sickens me, thousands of women having abortions because they are "depressed."

When I have a bad day I go shopping, I do not kill innocent children.

Furthermore, it is amazing to me that child rapists are running free around the state of KS!

Even if you do not live in KS please pray for Klines victory so we can help put an end to abortion and protect innocent children whom are rape victims

1 posted on 11/6/2006, 7:33:53 PM by pryncessraych
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To: pryncessraych

Didn't this guy run his "clinic" out of a back alley?


2 posted on 11/6/2006, 7:37:50 PM by Abcdefg
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To: pryncessraych

This is going nowhere. The KSSC will not appoint anybody to investigate anything. The MSM is just giving out free publicity to Pro-Abortion/Anti-Orielly crowd.


3 posted on 11/6/2006, 7:39:14 PM by ozoneliar ("The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots & tyrants" -T.J.)
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To: Abcdefg

No unfortunately it is a office along the main highway that runs through Wichita.

There are two problems here:
1. Tiller is performing abortions on women who are "depressed" which is against the Law in kansas
2. He is not turning in rape susupects to police!


4 posted on 11/6/2006, 7:41:00 PM by pryncessraych
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To: Abcdefg

It cracks me up with the pro aborts and their paid for "spokespeople" bleep about "women's health". They could not care less about DEAD FEMALE BABIES or the women killed by Tiller.


5 posted on 11/6/2006, 7:41:04 PM by juliej
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To: juliej

I know, like Rush said, it really is a matter of changing peoples hearts


6 posted on 11/6/2006, 7:43:35 PM by pryncessraych
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To: Abcdefg

No, he has a huge practice and funds a million-dollar PAC which supports RATs. Our beloved RAT governor took many thousands from him. This manufactured outrage over O'reilly is part of the desperation campaign for KS atty gen. Kline is closing in on tiller, and has evidence that could land him in prison for failing to report rapes. The RATS and the KS papers are desperate to protect tiller.


7 posted on 11/6/2006, 7:43:51 PM by ozzymandus
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To: pryncessraych

O'Reilly is not the sharpest knife in the drawer.


8 posted on 11/6/2006, 7:45:27 PM by Brilliant
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To: ozzymandus

It is pretty sad that The Wichita Eagle is supporting Tiller, I don't think that the Governor or the paper are really indicative as to most Kansans values...that is why everyone MUST vote!


9 posted on 11/6/2006, 7:45:36 PM by pryncessraych
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To: Brilliant

No, but he can draw public attention and awareness


10 posted on 11/6/2006, 7:46:24 PM by pryncessraych
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To: ozzymandus

O'Reilly has just gone up several notches in my esteem.

Teller has been killing babies for decades...I think he brags about a number like 60,000.

Several women have also died as a result of a Teller abortion. He is the Butcher of Wichita.


11 posted on 11/6/2006, 7:47:03 PM by Palladin (Vote for Rick Santorum, a true prolife conservative!)
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It was a very good interview.

Kline was making the point that abortion clinics, under privacy, cannot be totally immune to a review of their records, because the state has an interest in determining whether or not the clinics are adhering to laws that require them to report suspected cases of child rape and to make sure that late term abortions are to protect the life of the mother.


12 posted on 11/6/2006, 7:47:12 PM by Madeleine Ward
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To: Palladin

More than several women have died as a result of an abortion.

I keep remembering that someday his time will come and he will be judged accordingly


13 posted on 11/6/2006, 7:49:06 PM by pryncessraych
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To: Brilliant

Thank God being a Christian is not dependent upon being Brilliant.


14 posted on 11/6/2006, 7:50:25 PM by NoLibZone (Pelosi helped keep Garry Studds and Barney Franks in office. Pelosi must resign.)
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To: pryncessraych

"Show me just one living person who was successfully aborted and I'll become pro-choice" - Me


15 posted on 11/6/2006, 7:51:23 PM by Niteranger68 (Already voted absentee...straight Republican ticket...best choice on the menu.)
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To: NoLibZone

Very true :)


16 posted on 11/6/2006, 7:51:43 PM by pryncessraych
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To: RacerF150

Great quote! I will have to use that sometime!


17 posted on 11/6/2006, 7:54:39 PM by pryncessraych
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To: pryncessraych

George Tiller has probably personally killed more people than any American in history. He performs thousands of abortions each year (many partial birth) and has also been responsible for the deaths of a number of women.


18 posted on 11/6/2006, 7:55:25 PM by wagglebee ("We are ready for the greatest achievements in the history of freedom." -- President Bush, 1/20/05)
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To: wagglebee

I would have to agree with you. When I start to think about how many abortions he has performed, first I begin to cry and then I just get angry!


19 posted on 11/6/2006, 7:57:31 PM by pryncessraych
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To: pryncessraych

The Wichita Eagle supporting that butcher and his minions neither surprises me nor depresses me. That's why I don't subscribe to that rag anymore. What depresses me is the fact that both our governor and this AG wannabee both call themselves Catholic. That my friend, is depressing. That we have people like this in high office and seeking high office is a disgrace. That this Paul Morrison would drop the investigation of the crimes perpetuated and the crimes not reported by Tiller the Killer. Still astounding, still confounding that these people could say that they are Catholic. They might as well personally spit on the pope, no one better, Christ himself


20 posted on 11/6/2006, 7:57:52 PM by SaintDismas (.)
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