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Subject: [fpn_atrocities] Atrocities:  Kansas/US  Attorney General gets abortion clinic records
Date: 2 Nov 2006 23:27:59 -0600
From: FPN 

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/110206WB.shtml

Kansas AG Gets Abortion Clinic Records
    By John Hanna
    The Associated Press

    Tuesday 31 October 2006

    Topeka, Kansas - The state attorney general said Tuesday night that his
office has received the records of 90 patients from two abortion clinics and
is reviewing them for possible crimes, the culmination of an effort that
prompted concerns over patient privacy.

    Attorney General Phill Kline, one of the nation's foremost abortion
opponents, said the targets of his investigation are rapists, sex offenders
with child victims, and doctors involved in illegal abortions. Those could
include doctors performing illegal late-term abortions or those failing to
report abuse of a child.

    The clinics had argued that giving the attorney general access to the
records would invade patients' privacy.

    Shawnee County District Judge Richard Anderson subpoenaed the records at
Kline's request in September 2004, concluding there was probable cause to
believe they contained evidence of crimes.

    While Anderson didn't give Kline unfettered access to the records, the
state Supreme Court imposed new guidelines for having them reviewed and
edited before they were given to the district court. Under that process,
neither Kline nor the judge saw the names of the patients.

    Kline's office received redacted copies of the records a week ago.

    His disclosure came a week before the Nov. 7 general election, with
Kline, a Republican, in a tight race with Johnson County prosecutor Paul
Morrison, a Democrat. Morrison has made Kline's pursuit of the records a key
issue in his campaign, even suggesting the efforts are an abuse of power.

    Because the records are redacted, individual patients cannot be
identified, Kline said. He could seek the names of any victims of child rape
to build cases against the perpetrators, he said.

    In addition to child rape, possible crimes include potentially illegal
late-term abortions, incest, forcible rape and making a "false writing," he
said.

    The records came from a Planned Parenthood clinic in Overland Park and a
clinic in Wichita operated by Dr. George Tiller.

    Pedro Irigonegaray, an attorney for the Planned Parenthood clinic, said
that the records don't show any wrongdoing by the clinics and that if the
clinics had not fought back, the attorney general would have seen unedited
files.

    "Nothing whatsoever in those records supports the proposition that our
clients have violated the law," Irigonegaray said.