Mary K. Culp

The failure of the Grand Jury to deliver indictments today is a tragic injustice for all law-abiding Kansans.

The only thing the Wichita grand jury uncovered was just how deeply corrupt the Wichita District Attorney's office is.  This grand jury would have indicted George Tiller had they not been lied to.  The problem isn't the current law.  The problem is the so-called enforcers of that law that have failed to do their job, and can now add lying to a grand jury to their resume!

We said it last summer when disgraced former AG Paul Morrison came up with his misinterpretation of Kansas' late-term abortion law, and we say it again:  The law is sufficiently plain. Legislators can't cross enough "T's" and dot enough "I's" to make those charged with enforcing the law do so, when they care more about the massive doses of political money expended by those like Tiller who manipulate the law."

The grand jury clearly was led stray by the prosecutor, which is why the citizens' petition had demanded a special prosecutor insulated from D.A.Foulston. Unfortunately, the Sedgwick County judges did not obtain an unbiased prosecutor, and now the jury's statement reflects abominable legal instruction.

Examples abound. The grand jury statement says, "the medical records reviewed by this Jury revealed a number of questionable late-term abortions with regard to the diagnosis of 'substantial and irreversible impairment." Yet the prosecutor misled the jury that these abortions were not prosecutable.

The jury statement also proclaimed, "As the current law is written and interpreted by the Kansas Supreme Court, late-term abortions will continue for many circumstances that would seem, as a matter of common interpretation, not to meet the definition of 'substantial and irreversible impairment of a major bodily function."

However, English is all that is necessary to prosecute for illegal abortions under statute 65-6703.  No Supreme Court decision has redefined the plain meaning of that law and there is no special legal meaning for "irreversible" that is different from the common sense meaning.  The jury was wrongly advised that somehow their common sense was not sufficient to prevail and that the Supreme Court would use magical intuition to determine when abortions were valid.

Furthermore, the jury statement astonishingly asserts that, " The Court has further indicated that if a review of the relevant circumstances surrounding a woman's pregnancy and subsequent abortion revealed no more than a reasonable medical debate over the condition of the patient...no crime has been committed"

The phrase "no more than a reasonable  medical debate" found in the state Supreme Court's Alpha case has been intentionally misquoted to undermine and trivialize the meaning of the law.  The jury is parroting the argument used by disgraced ex Attorney General  Paul Morrison that it doesn't matter what 2 doctors say-no legal authority can question them.

Our next move is unclear, but we are already working on the upcoming elections. This makes Kline's re-election as Johnson County DA the most important race in the state if only because he remains one of the few left with enough backbone to battle Kansas' complete political corruption by the abortion industry.

Members of KFL are calling our offices asking what they can do.  Right now we are suggesting they work on electing the candidates endorsed by the Kansans for Life Political Action Committee in their area.  We will have more suggestions in the upcoming days.