Kansas Loses Fight Against Embattled Abortion Doctor

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A Kansas judge has overturned the state medical board's revocation of a doctor's license over her referrals of young patients for late-term abortions.

Shawnee County District Judge Franklin Theis ruled that State Board of Healing Arts failed to show that mental health exams provided by Dr. Ann Kristin Neuhaus in 2003 were inadequate. In a ruling that became public Monday, the judge ordered the board to reconsider its sanctions.

The board in 2012 revoked Neuhaus' license to provide charity care over her exams of 11 patients, ages 10 to 18, nine years earlier. The board had ratified the decision of a hearing officer, who concluded Neuhaus failed to meet accepted standards of medical care because her records didn't show that she had done thorough exams. --snip--

The board can either take Neuhaus' case up again or appeal Theis' decision to the state Court of Appeals. Executive Director Kathleen Selzler Lippert said it would have a special meeting within a month to decide what action to take. She declined to comment further.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/11/kansas-abortion-ann-neuhaus-judge-theis_n_4940544.html

Finally, some good news from one of the most (currently) regressive states

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1. Here is some background on Dr. Neuhaus for any who might not know her (or seen Rachel Maddow,

who has covered the abortion issues in KS quite extensively.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/16/ann-kristin-neuhaus_n_3756876.html

Ann Kristin Neuhaus has seen better days.

The doctor once ran a medical clinic that provided abortions in Lawrence, Kan., and later worked with the late Dr. George Tiller. Now she says her house, which sits on a desolate stretch of road in rural Kansas, is falling apart.

An underground pipe from the well is so rusted that the basement floods if she doesn’t turn off the water. Health insurance, which covers a lot of the medications for her son’s diabetes, costs about $1,200 a month.

“We live pretty much hand to mouth,” the soft-spoken 55-year-old, who goes by "Kris," told The Huffington Post. “We’re basically in the process of getting bankruptcy paperwork together, but we’re moving slowly on it.”

Neuhaus was stripped of her medical license last summer after the state of Kansas determined that mental health consultations she gave to 11 young women seeking late-term abortions didn’t meet the standard of care. The females were between the ages of 10 and 18.

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2. Good.

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3. So 10 year olds are getting impregnated by family members but the REAL problem is with the Dr?

"Pre-teen girls getting raped by their uncles? Oh, they're fine. Stop worrying about it."
- Pretty much what the State of Kansas said.