- The Social Footprints of Contraception
The Church's teaching on sexuality that lies behind its teaching that contraception is intrinsically immoral is dazzlingly beautiful.
Many people whose understanding has been clouded by the corruption of our culture have difficulty understanding it.
09/ 04/08 - Teen Sex? Please Do! - Planned Parenthood
Planned Parenthood, the billion dollar corporate abortion mill, has taken indecency to a whole new level and is using your taxpayer dollars to do so.
09/ 03/08 - Johnny's Got a New Girl
The risk John McCain took last Friday is comparable to the 72-year-old ex-fighter pilot knocking back two shots and flying his A-4 under the Golden Gate Bridge.
McCain's choice of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin to be his co-pilot was the biggest gamble in presidential history. As of now, it is paying off, big-time.
09/ 03/08 - A Chicken in Every Pot and the Pill on Every Nightstand
During my last pregnancy, I qualified for excellent, free state medical insurance because of our lower income. My husband is in graduate school for a while. This insurance coverage is part of the state's healthy start program for pregnant women and young kids.
09/ 02/08 - Who is Govenor Sarah Palin?
Women and Men across America are cheering the VP pick of John McCain. Here a look at who she is...
08/ 31/08 - PELOSI DENIES CATHOLICISM OPPOSES ABORTION
When asked about when life begins Pelosi answered "...what I know is, over the centuries, the doctors of the Church have not been able to make that definition.”
08/ 26/08 - Planned Parenthood Abortion Center Closes Instead of Following New Law
Monday was the first day that Planned Parenthood, which operates the only abortion business in South Dakota, had to comply with a new state law telling women the truth about abortion. Rather than tell women abortion kills children and has numerous risks, Planned Parenthood closed its doors.
07/ 22/08 - Planned Parenthood Needs More Scrutiny
Last year, Planned Parenthood performed more than 250,000 abortions, which account for about 1 in 5 of our country's total. Of all abortions, those performed for black women accounted for about a third of the procedures. It's also worth noting that a majority of Planned Parenthood's clinics are in minority neighborhoods.
07/ 15/08 - Black pro-lifers to ask NAACP to oppose taxpayer funding for Planned Parenthood
Day Gardner: Planned Parenthood has basically bought off Barack Obama
07/ 15/08 - Black Pro-Lifers Demand Parties Refuse Planned Parenthood Funding
Democratic and Republican candidates must reject donations from Planned Parenthood this election year, and Congress should end all federal funding for the abortion provider, according to black pro-life leaders who held two press conferences last week in Washington, D.C., at Democratic and Republican Party Committee headquarters.
07/ 03/08 - Your Tax Money at Work Funding Abortions
For the last few decades, evangelicals repeatedly have mobilized and demonstrated to oppose the operation of abortion clinics. Over the years, many have believed that being anti-abortion had become a litmus test for their support of politicians and policies, which vie for evangelical votes.
07/ 03/08 - Inconvenient Truth for MSM: Black Ministers March Against Planned Parenthood
Exit poll after exit poll in election after election shows the Democratic Party is staunchly supported by an overwhelming majority of African-American voters, many of whom are much more socially conservative on issues like abortion than their party leadership.
07/ 03/08 - Candidates warned against Planned Parenthood money
Corporation's willingness to accept race-based contributions cited
07/ 02/08 - From our friends at KFL
Press release from Kansas for Life
06/ 27/08 - Planned Parenthood: A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing?
During the last few years, everyone in the nation has come to understand that things are not always the way they appear with individuals or organizations. While all of us struggle to live up to our ideals, some groups live permanently in the land of personal or professional compromise.
06/ 23/08
PHILL KLINE: ONLY WAY TO ENFORCE LAW IS TO SEE MEDICAL RECORDS
BY PHILL KLINEAbuse almost always occurs behind a veil of secrecy. Such was the case with the Kaufman house in Newton, until the Attorney General's Office convened a task force that led to the subpoena of medical records that revealed sexual exploitation of mentally challenged patients.
Medical records exposed the truth, and Arlan Kaufman is now in prison.
A similar story happened in Wichita as a man repeatedly raped his stepdaughters through several pregnancies and abortions. On one occasion, however, he took one pregnant victim to an adoption agency, which didn't believe that a boyfriend got his stepdaughter pregnant. The agency called police, medical records were obtained, and the stepfather is now in prison.
Kansas cannot protect victims of abuse unless names are provided to investigators. State law makes reports on child sexual abuse mandatory, and when I was attorney general, I sought the names of children who received abortions -- specifically so we could protect them. There are about 74 children each year, all 14 and under, who have abortions in Kansas, and not all of them got pregnant by an age-mate.
The bogus demand for "privacy above all else" undermines the safety net established to protect these victims. But child sexual predators count on abortion clinics to protect the "privacy" of the child victim under the banner of abortion rights.
As attorney general, I never sought the names of adult patients, and despite years of sensational media attention, patient identities have remained private. Meanwhile, four independent judges have found probable cause to believe that two Kansas abortion clinics committed 156 criminal acts based on just 90 redacted records.
Kansas law only restricts abortion late in pregnancy when the fetus is viable and can live away from the mother. Still, late-term abortion is allowed if a medical emergency exists for the mother.
But this reasonable law cannot be enforced unless the reason for the abortion can be reviewed by investigators. The name of the mother is never revealed, and she cannot be prosecuted under the law.
For this reason, a Wichita grand jury's subpoena of the records in the possession of Attorney General Stephen Six should be honored. Those records contain no identities, and a judge already certified that the redaction of information was consistent with the court order.
When the Kansas Supreme Court first made this matter public, I correctly predicted that the abortion clinics would use the privacy argument to frighten women into believing they are in jeopardy. This fear tactic is now on full display and supported by the intellectual dishonesty of many newspaper editorial pages across the state.
Five years after the investigation started, with scores of criminal charges filed, not one patient has been identified; not one patient faces criminal scrutiny. It is past time for The Eagle editorial board and the state Supreme Court to get their collective heads out of the sand and recognize that laws protecting children from sexual predators must be enforced if they're to be worth the paper they're printed on.
Phill Kline, former Kansas attorney general, is district attorney for Johnson County.© 2007 Wichita Eagle and wire service sources. All Rights Reserved. http://www.kansas.com