The Kansas Meadowlark

The Shame of Kansas

O'Reilly Factor, Nov 3,  2006

Alternate video source:  Amy Richards Segment   Phill Kline Segment
 Alternate video source:  YouTube video

Summary from the Factor Archive:  Killing Babies in America

"For more than a year, The Factor has been investigating Dr. George Tiller of Kansas. For $5000, Tiller, the Baby Killer, as some call him, will perform a late-term abortion for just about any reason. In Kansas, the law says that abortions are legal after 22 weeks when a baby in the womb becomes viable, only if there is "irreversible impairment of a major bodily function of the pregnant woman." Now that's a pretty high bar. But there is the mental health exception. And that is where Dr. Tiller lives. "The Factor" has learned that in Kansas, a mental health exception can be just about anything. However, we needed to prove that. So we tried to get Tiller's records. We could not. He cited patient confidentiality. And month after month, we were frustrated. But now, "The Factor" has evidence that indicates Tiller killed late-term fetuses by citing temporary depression on the part of the mother. That was the reason Tiller performed scores, perhaps thousands of late-term abortions. In the state of Kansas, there is a doctor, George Tiller, who will execute babies for $5,000 if the mother is depressed. And there are rapists impregnating 10-year-olds who are being protected by abortion clinics. It doesn't get worse than that. This is the absolute shame of America."

Bill O'Reilly:  "The Factor has been looking into Dr. George Tiller of Kansas.  For $5000, he'll perform late-term abortions.  Kansas law says abortions are legal after 22 weeks if there is "Irreversible impairment of a major bodily function" for the mother.  There's a mental health exception and that is where Dr. Tiller lives.  We've learned that can be just about anything. …  The Factor now has evidence that Dr. Tiller performs late-term abortions by citing temporary depression of the mother.  …  Temporary depression could mean anything.   What we have in Kansas is a doctor who will terminate a pregnancy at any time, for vague reasons. Even if you're pro-choice, do you think this is morally right?"

Dr. Tiller:  "Patients are smart enough to understand what is going on with them.  Patients are tough enough to put up with the emotional pain of the decision.  And patients are responsible enough to put up with the good results or bad results that come from their decisions."

Bill O'Reilly:  The Factor has also obtained info that Tiller's clinic and another abortion clinic in Kansas are violating the law

 

Dozens of abortions there have been performed on girls ages 10-15 – some of them by Tiller.  Those abortions were not reported to authorities as required by law.   Some of those abortions indicted forcible rape.  So criminals who impregnated girls got away with it.  Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline is trying to fix the situation.  He is under severe attack by the newspapers in his state. 

This is incomprehensible. 

There are rapists impregnating young girls and being protected by abortion clinics.  This is the shame of America.

 

From Factor Archive:  

The Factor spoke with Amy Richards, co-founder of the Third Wave Foundation, a feminist group. Richard's defended Tiller's practice: "I support Dr. Tiller's decision as a trained medical profession to make the decision that is going to be best for me or any other women who would be in a situation that would be seeking out his services. He's in the business to protect women's lives." The Factor said, "So what I'm taking from this is you are OK with Dr. Tiller, a man you admire, executing babies about to be born because the mother says she's depressed? You're OK with that?" Richards said that, "Doctors who perform these abortions in this country are allowed to take into consideration, given their medical expertise and their medical training, there exceptions that are necessary to preserve the life or health of the mother." The Factor was incredulous: "You're OK with some woman being depressed executing her child hours before it's born. I am shocked. I am shocked. You might want to get into the real world and drop the theory, when we're talking about dead babies."

Update:  Amy Richards blogs at PoliticalCortex about her appearance on O'Reilly:  (Nov 14, 2006):

... "The Factor had proof" that ten year old girls were being raped, going to Tiller for an abortion and he wasn't reporting the rapist. O'Reilly harangued me for not being outraged. I was curious about how O'Reilly had these records, since they weren't intended for mass consumption - but in the two seconds you have to make a point, you can't ask for footnotes. Going with what information O'Reilly forced on me, I reiterated what I know to be true - exposing someone's story isn't the way to justice and having the name of a rapist wouldn't get us very far in convicting rapists - acquaintance rape and incest are far more common than stranger rape ...

From Factor Archive:  

The Factor discussed the problem in Kansas of child rape going unreported with Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline. "I think it's an absurdity to argue that the privacy of the child, which has already been violated by a rapist, prohibits law enforcement after they present evidence to a judge, which is what happened in all of these cases. And the judge found probable cause to believe that crimes had been committed and subpoenas records, somehow that they cannot reveal that information. And the child rapist is able to go free." The Factor wondered how local media could attack Kline for trying to obtain the records of underage girls who had abortions in order to prosecute the rapists. "So what we have here is a horrendous, horrendous situation in the state of Kansas. Now The Kansas City Star and The Wichita Eagle oppose you, have attacked you, are asking for you to be defeated. And I am stunned, because you want to stop these two situations. And I guess these newspapers are fine with it."
So, What Say You, KC Star? What Say You, Wichita Eagle?  Are you OK with day-before birth abortion for "temporary depression"? Are you OK looking the other way in protecting child predators and child rapists of young girls?

Updates:

Nov 3, 2006

Nov 4, 2006, 

During a national Friday night broadcast of "The O'Reilly Factor," the host said 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 and another unnamed clinic have broken Kansas law by failing to report potential rapes with child victims aged 10 to 15.

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

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On Friday, The Junction City Daily Union endorsed Morrison, calling Kline "a social activist who has questionable relationships with the churches that agree with his extreme political views."

But The Topeka Capital-Journal endorsed Kline on Saturday, saying, "We believe Kline's efforts to protect all Kansans have outweighed the controversies stemming from his personal politics."

Did The Junction City Union's Publisher, John G. Montgomery, admit his political contributions to Paul Morrison and the Kansas Democratic Party at the time he endorsed Paul Morrison? 

FLASHBACK:  Irigonegaray paid for political ad in the Topeka Capital-Journal of former Attorney General Stovall's letter against Phill Kline on election day, Nov 5, 2002

Nov 5, 2006

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