Attorney: No Indictment for Kansas Clinic [Planned Parenthood]

[Purveyor]

Source: Associated Press

(03-03) 16:33 PST Olathe, Kan. (AP) --

An attorney for Planned Parenthood says a grand jury has refused to issue an indictment against its clinic in suburban Kansas City.

Attorney Pedro Irigonegaray (Ir-uh-GONE-uh-gar-rye) says the Johnson County grand jury issued a verdict of "no true bill."

Abortion opponents had petitioned Johnson County to convene the grand jury. They wanted it to investigate allegations that Planned Parenthood's clinic in Overland Park had violated state restrictions on abortion.

They also wanted to see whether the clinic was illegally trafficking in fetal tissue. The clinic strongly denied any wrongdoing.



Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/02/29/national/a100650S65.DTL

[proud2BlibKansan]

1. This is great news

and a huge defeat for a talibornagian republican district attorney.

[leftyladyfrommo]

8. Oh, that's funny. Talibornagain! Perfect.

I just can't stand that guy. I can't even stand to look at him.

I saw him on TV a couple of weeks ago arguing some case before a jury and he was just awful.

[Kikosexy2]

2. Kansas has...

some common sense?....Wow!

[leftyladyfrommo]

9. Actually, Kansas has some really good people.

Great governor.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

3. good for the grand jury

sounds to me like regular folks can see the difference between a crime and a load of manure.

[rocktivity]

4. CUE THE VONAGE THEME!

And if "no true bill" is legalese for "Someone just wasted four weeks of my freaking time!" so much the better!

:woohoo:
rocknation

[knight_of_the_star]

10. Pretty much

The Grand Jury's way of saying, "Fuck off you've got nothing buddy!"

[MuseRider]

5. YAY Pedro!

Good job my friend! :)

[damntexdem]

6. Irigonegaray also defended science against Creationism ...

when the Creos had their most-recent majority on the KS State Board of Education.

Good guy!

[leftyladyfrommo]

7. This is such a huge relief. Phil Kline is just the worst!

Phil Kline is the force behind all this abortion nonsense in Kansas. I think he will be out of office in January and everyone will be so glad.

[proud2BlibKansan]

12. He has already said he won't run for re-election

And there is a great Dem running for his seat.

[chat_noir]

11. “Pantysniffing former Kansas DA loses another one”

Pantysniffing former Kansas DA loses another one; still determined to get his nose in the drawers of Kansas women


The District Attorney in Johnson County is none other than Phill Kline, infamous for his pantysniffing fishing expedition into the sex lives of Kansas’ women. While he served as Attorney General for the state, he reinterpreted state law to require a wide variety of medical and school personnel to report all instances of “intimate contact” between consenting teens (even though he had a hard time defining just what comprised such contact, and got soundly smacked down by the federal court for his trouble); filed a lawsuit against the governor trying to ban the use of Medicaid funds to pay for abortions; attempted (unsuccessfully) to get the private medical records of thousands of women who had had late-term abortions in Dr. George Tiller’s clinic in Wichita, one of the few that is authorized to conduct the procedure — with the justification that he was looking for instances where the clinic failed to report statutory rape. Happily, Kansas voters had enough of Kline and bounced him in the last election — though he wound up as Johnson County’s district attorney, from which position he promptly launched an investigation of Planned Parenthood in Overland Park.

http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2008/03/04/pantysniffing-former-kansas-da-loses-one-still-determined-to-get-his-nose-in-the-drawers-of-kansans/

[Demeter]

13. Kudos to Kansas!

Ya done good, neighbors!