Former Kansas Attorney General and Johnson County prosecutor Phil Kline is to be commended for filing a 107-count indictment against a Planned Parenthood affiliate in Overland Park, Kan.
Judge James Vano reviewed the charges and found probable cause to indict the clinic for performing unlawful late-term abortions. The charges provide detailed evidence that late-term abortions were being performed without meeting requirements for fetal viability testing.
Furthermore, it is alleged that documents were illegally falsified in order to conceal the fact that such abortions were being performed. Late-term abortions are not the same as partial-birth abortions (PBAs). The term "partial-birth abortion" refers to a technique for aborting a baby. A "late-term" abortion is usually one performed after the baby becomes viable - able to live outside the womb - regardless of the technique.
Restrictions on such post-viability abortions are permissible under the Supreme Court's Planned Parenthood v. Casey decision. Therefore, the Kansas prosecution is not some wild-eyed assault on abortion. Approximately 40 states have passed laws regulating late-term abortions.
At this time, medical science has made it possible for babies as young as 22 weeks of gestation to live. We also urge the U.S. Justice Department to investigate for violations of the Born-Alive Infants Protection Act (2002) given the possibility that some of these Kansas babies might have survived an attempted abortion.
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This is exciting, but we'll have to wait and see how this holds up in our liberal court systems .....
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