Pelosi At It Again

WASHINGTON (October 26, 2009) — This is an urgent congressional alert from the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC) in Washington, D.C.  Please act on this alert immediately.  Please forward this e-mail to all pro-life lists (e.g., lists of pro-life groups, pro-life church members, and pro-life family members).

Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (Ca.) is planning to try to ram the massive health care bill (H.R. 3200) through the House on short notice, without allowing consideration of a critical pro-life amendment.  National Right to Life is urging every pro-life citizen to immediately TELEPHONE the office of his or her representative in the U.S. House of Representatives with a clear and firm message urging a NO vote on the so-called “rule,” which is the procedural vote that would allow passage of H.R. 3200 with no amendments allowed, and also to vote against the pro-abortion bill itself.

Even if you have already called and written your representatives in Congress about the health care bills, it is critical that you call again now.  This will just take a few minutes.  For guidance on how to make your call, go to the NRLC Legislative Action Center at http://www.capwiz.com/nrlc/ and click on the “Urgent Congressional Alert.”

Once you are on the NRLC website, you will see a box labeled “CALL NOW.”  Once you enter your zip code in that box, you will be shown the name and phone number of your representative in the U.S. House, along with suggested “talking points” that will help you deliver a crisp, clear message to your representative’s staff person in Washington, D.C.

You will also see there a simple “feedback” form that you can use, if you wish, to send NRLC a short e-mail report on what your representative’s staff person told you about how your representative intends to vote on these matters.  These reports are extremely helpful to NRLC’s efforts to prevent enactment of this pro-abortion legislation.

Detailed information about the pro-abortion components of the “health care” legislation, including NRLC’s most recent letter to U.S. House members and press releases, is posted on the NRLC website at http://www.nrlc.org/ahc

 

Et tu Outback?

Ugh.  Now I can no longer eat steak at Outback Steakhouse. That’s too bad because I really like their salmon.

I have a rule that anyone who advertises “grilled to perfection” gets an immediate boycott and I just heard a new ad where they say that for the first time about a new steak.  Now how else would you grill it?  “To a charred remnant of its former self?”  “Just long enough to get those cute stripes on it?”  I have the same rule on menus.  Anything that is “grilled, fried, sauteed, rinsed, chopped, diced or sliced to perfection” cannot be ordered.  If the obvious is the best they can say about it, I don’t want to waste money on it.

Imagine a bowl of cereal… A hand selected box of milled grains, arranged in a bowl with fresh milk poured to perfection.

Call me quirky to perfection.

Of course, Outback didn’t actually mention the salmon….

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg: “Populations That We Don’t Want Too Many Of.”

Interesting how when a liberal Supreme Court justice makes a comment like this in the NY Times Magazine, it does not even merit a mention or notice.  I would like to think that it merely points out the increasing irrelevance of the NY Times. Alas we all know what would happen if a conservative made a similar statement.

As noted before in this blog, Planned Parenthood not only will not distance itself from its eugenics origins, it celebrates its founder and the author of its eugenics manifesto.  To those who naively think that is merely an unnecessary symbolic gesture and that nothing like that remains in the pro-abortion, radical feminist agenda, consider the recent words of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.  Again, a justice on the Supreme Court quoted in the NY Times Magazine and this is likely the first you’ve read about it.  An excerpt:

Q: Are you talking about the distances women have to travel because in parts of the country, abortion is essentially unavailable, because there are so few doctors and clinics that do the procedure? And also, the lack of Medicaid for abortions for poor women?

JUSTICE GINSBURG: Yes, the ruling about that surprised me. [Harris v. McRae — in 1980 the court upheld the Hyde Amendment, which forbids the use of Medicaid for abortions.] Frankly I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don’t want to have too many of. So that Roe was going to be then set up for Medicaid funding for abortion. Which some people felt would risk coercing women into having abortions when they didn’t really want them. But when the court decided McRae, the case came out the other way. And then I realized that my perception of it had been altogether wrong.

Of course, there was no follow-up question asking, “Justice Ginsburg, which populations are those that we don’t want to have too many of?”

Perhaps some day, we’ll learn.  Full article here.

Scenes From The Groundbreaking UPDATED

Had the skies not been threatening to unload I would have taken a better camera.  Murphy’s Law.  The weather held (a good thing) but alas I could only grab a couple of shots on the cellphone.  Kevin Kelly of the Catholic Key was there so look for more photos and coverage there later.  The sisters choral offerings were heavenly as always and there was a genuine joy in the air that can only be described as… as… Catholic.

His Excellency, Bishop Robert Finn addresses the gathered crowd after turning over the ceremonial first spade of dirt.

I cannot tell you how much I regret not being able to get a better shot of this.  Kids of all ages were lining up for ATV rides with Mother and Sister.  There was so much love and joy in the their eyes and faces it was contagious.  And I’m not talking about the kids, though there was joy there as well.  Note the future orchard in the background.

What a glorious day in the history of the diocese of Kansas City/St. Joseph.  Deo Gratias!!

UPDATE 8/16/08:  Kansas Catholic has outstanding coverage here.

Habit Forming

I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that the communities of nuns that are growing with young, smiling vibrant vocations just happen to be those who wear habits and practice strict disciplines of ora et labora.  Just a coincidence.

Congratulations and thank you to the Benedictines of Mary.  Deo Gratias!

Congresswoman Admits Abortion Funding Is In Proposed Health Care Bill

From Lifenews:

During a Monday town hall event, pro-abortion Rep. Zoe Lofgren, a California Democrat, acknowledged that the Congressional bills include abortion funding.

“Abortion will be covered as a benefit by one or more of the healthcare plans available to Americans, and I think it should be,” she said.

In a video provided to LifeNews.com by pro-life advocate David Schmidt, local pro-life advocate Ignacio Reyes asks Lofgren about the health care plan.

He says he wants to know if the plan would be “covering abortion, which we know that 90 percent of abortions are purely elective, not medically necessary. Why is this being covered when abortion is clearly not health care.”

After applause from the audience for the question, Lofgren said the Congressional proposal was “a basic benefit plan developed by health professionals” and then added that she felt abortion should be covered under the legislation.

Get the full report at Lifenews.

Needle In Haystack Found On Garage Floor In Kansas

Kudos to Kansas Catholic.  His struggle to find the right metaphor to present the case against gay marriage has been shared by many.  I think he might have found it.  So I shall tease you with this and encourage you to read the entire post.

Taking out the trash tonight, I saw a needle on the floor of my garage. As I bent down to pick it up, I noticed that it was…

A Really Bad Week To Be An Icon

Ed McMahon, Farrah Fawcett, Michael Jackson and Billy Mays all gone in a week.  Walter Cronkite is gravely ill.  I recall when Princess Di was killed the world acted as though we’d lost a saint.  Then Mother Teresa was called home a few days later and at least for some, perspective returned.

Friday we celebrated the Feast of St. Josemaria Escriva, the founder of Opus Dei (the real one in 1928).  A central theme of his teaching was the call to holiness for all or the sanctification of our daily work regardless of our calling.  Thus while the priest has a special calling, doctors, teachers, businessmen, welders, farmers, salesmen, paralegals, etc. are all called to their vocation. So are late night co-hosts, tv stars, music stars, pitch people and journalists.  And in the same way as a priest is called to make his vocation holy, we too are called to make our vocations (and our relationships) holy.  We do this by simply directing all our efforts toward the glory of God.

We tend to make those who achieve dramatic popular and financial success, modern icons.  Of course an icon is one immediately recognizable and associated with something.  Imagine our world if all of our modern icons represented the values we see in the icons of saints.  Imagine if they directed their vocations toward the glory of God above all else.

I pray for the health of those ailing and for the repose of the souls of those who have gone.  May their families be comforted.  I also pray that we don’t need to lose Mother Angelica or another saintly life to help us regain our sense of what a real life model or modern icon should be.

Why Did Former Tiller Abortion Mill Employee Join Operation Rescue?

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again.  Seeing is believing.  The horrific images of the Holocaust led us to say, “Never again!”  They are among the reasons that when a lone wacko shoots a single security guard at the Holocaust museum, it becomes international front page news.  Yet thousands of innocent babies are murdered everyday by poison and violent dismemberment and they don’t even merit an obituary.

The recent media images of George Tiller can be summed up by a sheet-covered stretcher wheeling out of his church.  If you watch CNN or read liberal news sources, you saw younger photos of him.  If you watch FOX News or read conservative sources, you saw his more recent photos.  What no one saw was George Tiller’s legacy.  60,000 plus aborted babies – many of whom were only a few weeks before birth.

Until these images are seen and strike our hearts, this horror like the Holocaust before the German defeat, will seem unreal.  The world could not believe such a thing could happen until they saw it with their own eyes.  Like the German SS, there are people today who are somehow able to silence their hearts, close their eyes, take their hands and snuff out the lives of our most defenseless.  Even as we speak, there are those making plans to step in and take over for George Tiller.

There was someone though who saw the carnage in Tiller’s clinic first-hand.  She also saw how the reality behind closed doors differed from Tiller’s public image.  She went from being pro-choice to making appearances for Operation Rescue.  This is her story:

Luhra Tivis, who was hired as a temp worker for Tiller and eventually became a full employee for one year, discussed her story Tuesday with the Enid News & Eagle in the wake of Tiller’s death May 31. Tiller was shot and killed while serving as an usher in his Lutheran church. His family has stated that Tiller’s Wichita abortion facility, Women’s Health Care Services, will not reopen.

In addition to normal secretarial work, Tivis told the Eagle that she “underwent some sales training” when she began work in 1988. In a separate testimony, published on the Pro-Life Action League’s website, Tivis explained: “I thought they were going to tell me how they want the information sheet filled out and how to keep the phone record and this and that.

“But what I was handed instead was a packet of information – materials to study – on how to be a high-pressure salesperson over the phone, like telemarketing: how to convince somebody to buy your product.”

Though Tivis says Tiller assured her at the outset that he only performed late-term abortions on “severely deformed” children or for a medical crisis, Tivis says she soon came to realize that Tiller’s words were not consistent with his practice.

“I was seeing eight- and nine-month pregnant women come in,” she said, “and out of those two dozen a week, only about 2 percent had medical deformities. I thought I was pro-choice back then, but week after week I kept seeing these women coming in with healthy babies and I saw all the records. I didn’t think that was right.”

Tivis’ testimony is congruent with the allegations of Operation Rescue, who had frequently denounced Tiller for killing perfectly healthy late-term babies. At the time of his death, Tiller was under investigation by the Kansas State Board of Healing Arts for performing illegal late-term abortions.

Discussing the typical abortion procedure, Tivis told the Pro-Life Action League in a previous interview: “[the mothers] have a sonogram, first thing and he tells them, ‘Oh, you’re not that far along.’ He’s very happy to take their money. Then the first thing he does to them is he kills that baby, because once that baby is dead, they can’t change their mind and get their money back.

“He uses the sonogram — a tool for life — to kill the baby. He uses that to guide the needle into the baby’s heart and he injects it with digoxin, which is a heart medication and it slows the baby’s heart down.

“The second day, the women come in and they have little group counseling sessions, but they don’t do any counseling until after that baby is already dead.”

Livis described the testimony of a Southwest Kansas woman who had written a letter to Tiller, which Tivis says the abortionist distributed to his staff to read, describing her third-trimester abortion there as “the most horrible experience of her life.”

“Although I was not down in the basement for any more than just a few seconds when those women were down there, I got a very vivid description of what actually went on down there from this woman,” said Tivis, referring to a room in the facility where women would give birth to their babies’ corpses following an abortion. ”She said that women were crying and screaming and there was blood everywhere – blood running down their legs and it was just horrible.”

One of the more disturbing aspects of the abortion process at Tiller’s clinic was the “memorial services” he openly offered, as published on his website, to parents after they had killed their child. Tiller even employed a chaplain at his clinic, where he offered baptisms, baptismal certificates, and mementos such as a lock of hair or “fetal footprints.”

The clinic also offered parents a chance to bond with the child’s corpse for a little while after the abortion, in a process Tiller described in a 1996 promotional video as an “identification and separation encounter.”

“We will bring the baby to you, either at the bedside, or we will go to our quiet room, and we will bring the baby to you there,” said the abortionist.

“During this encounter we will describe to you what’s right with your baby, we will identify what’s wrong with your baby. You may hold the baby. We can take pictures of you and the family holding the baby, if you wish, and that is not an uncommon request. … the identification/separation encounter may involve 2 or 3 hours of bonding with the baby - the identification that this is your baby and you have had a delivery.”

Tivis told the Eagle about one pivotal experience just before leaving the office: Tiller emerged from the surgery room with a cardboard box one day and asked her to open a door for him. Tivis saw his crematorium – where the babies’ remains are regularly incinerated.

“I realized that box was full of dead babies,” said Tivis. ”That freaked me out.”

She says Tiller fired her after an attorney she had applied for a position with told Tiller she was searching for jobs.

A Tiller spokeswoman later contradicted Tivis’ testimony at a meeting of the Senate State and Federal Affairs Committee, denying that Tiller performed abortions on healthy late-term babies and calling Tivis a “disgruntled employee whose credibility is lacking because of that,” according to a Wichita Eagle report.

Tivis has since then been active with Operation Rescue, and has spoken at pro-life rallies across the United States.

Seeing is believing.  If you consider yourself pro-choice, I challenge you to visit anyone of a number of sites online or simply click here and view the photos.  See abortion for what it is, not as a word or a debate.  If your heart is then turned, seek to help end this holocaust and make “Never again!” humanity’s cry once again.  If your heart is not turned, seek counseling.

Thank you to www.lifesitenews.com for the article.

Welcome Archbishop Carlson!

St. Louis has a new Archbishop and Kansas City has a new Metropolitan.   For a very impressive collection of dignitaries and photos click here.  For his homily click here.

His closing comment:

Let us never forget that, “In the Church there is a diversity of ministries, but there is only one aim — the sanctification of all.” (St. Josemaria Escriva)

Separation of Church, State & Sanity

I have never understood this.  The term “separation of church and state” gets tossed around like beach balls at an outdoor concert.  The Constitution (1st Amendment) simply states that government cannot establish a state religion and that we are free to practice our faith without fear of government reprisal.

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech…

Catholic Answers is suing the IRS.

We’re suing the IRS for violating our First Amendment rights . . . for slapping us with a fine for exercising our free speech rights . . . and for intimidating all non-profit organizations into silence.

I say that it’s about stinkin’ time someone did.  I am sick of having to watch clergy tip-toe around important issues for fear that the IRS would take away their tax-exempt status.  This is akin to times in hostile lands when Catholics practiced their faith secretly for fear of being discovered and dragged off.  I’m sick of pro-abortion “Catholics” saying that the Church should lose it’s tax-exempt status for preaching the Gospel and speaking against evil.  They can’t win the battle for truth so they they attack financially.

The whole idea that a tax-exempt organization somehow gives up certain rights is absurd.  I thought we did away with the poll tax.  So now we have to pay to play?  Our level of citizenship is tied to our level of payment?  Didn’t we eliminate that a couple of hundred years ago?

Organizations on both sides already get around it by having “political action committees.”  So if I wear one hat I can say don’t vote for Obama, but if I wear another, I cannot.  Give me a break.  How much money is wasted by both sides playing these accounting games?

The lawsuit from Catholic Answers nails it.  This is exactly what is happening and I hope that many other organizations on both sides of the political aisle join this suit.

Four New Deacons In Kansas City

Why is it that those dioceses where the bishop or archbishop does not seem to be afraid to speak out on doctrine and the truths of the Church, don’t seem to be suffering from the same vocations crisis that other dioceses are?  In addition to 4 recently ordained priests, Kansas City has 3 new Transitional Deacons, 4 new Permanent Deacons and nearly 30 in the seminary.  Prior to Bishop Finn, the number was less than a third of that.  To all priests, deacons and seminarians who have responded to God’s call and to all bishops and archbishops who are providing real leadership – thank you!

And thanks to Hyperblogal for the great photo.  See more.

Planned Parenthood’s Ongoing Guilt By Ongoing Association

Never before in history has it been easier to distance one’s self or organization from words.  If a politician or celebrity is quoted and an uproar ensues, dozens of PR handlers rush in and tell us what he or she “meant” to say.  And if the media does not carry the “correction”, websites, blogs and others will get the word out.  In fact, websites make these corrections timeless.  So no matter when you hear about what someone might have said, you can simply go to a website and see if it’s true.

Operation Rescue long ago distanced itself from its founder, Randall Terry.  You can read it on their website:

Some of Mr. Terry’s unbiblical lifestyle decisions include:

Misstatements and deception to donors about his financial situation.

Misuse and lack of accountability with respect to hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations from the pro-life community.

Improper and immoral relationships.

The Operation Rescue leaders are praying that Randall Terry repents and seeks God’s help for spiritual restoration, healing of shattered and broken relationships and restitution of all ill-gained funds.

“Randall Terry is not associated with Operation Rescue, and has no authority to speak on behalf of this organization.”

The Lutheran Church (at least the conservative Missouri Synod) long ago distanced itself from the anti-Semitic writings of Martin Luther.  I just checked their website to be sure and found this:

While The Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod holds Martin Luther in high esteem for his bold proclamation and clear articulation of the teachings of Scripture, it deeply regrets and deplores statements made by Luther which express a negative and hostile attitude toward the Jews.

So when we read the following quotes from Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, is it really fair to say that the current Planned Parenthood organization and supporters agree with them?

On blacks, immigrants and indigents:
“…human weeds,’ ‘reckless breeders,’ ’spawning… human beings who never should have been born.”  Margaret Sanger, Pivot of Civilization, referring to immigrants and poor people

On sterilization & racial purification:
Sanger believed that, for the purpose of racial “purification,” couples should be rewarded who chose sterilization. Birth Control in America, The Career of Margaret Sanger, by David Kennedy, p. 117, quoting a 1923 Sanger speech.

On the right of married couples to bear children:
Couples should be required to submit applications to have a child, she wrote in her “Plan for Peace.” Birth Control Review, April 1932

On the purpose of birth control:
The purpose in promoting birth control was “to create a race of thoroughbreds,” she wrote in the Birth Control Review, Nov. 1921 (p. 2)

On the rights of the handicapped and mentally ill, and racial minorities:
“More children from the fit, less from the unfit — that is the chief aim of birth control.” Birth Control Review, May 1919, p. 12

On the extermination of blacks:
“We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population,” she said, “if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members.” Woman’s Body, Woman’s Right: A Social History of Birth Control in America, by Linda Gordon

On respecting the rights of the mentally ill:
In her “Plan for Peace,” Sanger outlined her strategy for eradication of those she deemed “feebleminded.” Among the steps included in her evil scheme were immigration restrictions; compulsory sterilization; segregation to a lifetime of farm work; etc. Birth Control Review, April 1932, p. 107

And finally:

“The most merciful thing that a large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it.” Margaret Sanger, Women and the New Race (Eugenics Publ. Co., 1920, 1923)  (*Quote collection compiled and available at dianedew.com)

So, let’s be fair and research Planned Parenthood’s website and see what they say about their founder and her words:

Planned Parenthood is rooted in the courage and tenacity of American women and men willing to fight for women’s health, rights, and equality. Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, is one of the movement’s great heroes. Sanger’s early efforts remain the hallmark of Planned Parenthood’s mission.

In 1966, Planned Parenthood Federation of America inaugurated the PPFA Margaret Sanger Award to honor the woman who founded America’s family planning movement. In its first year, the award was bestowed upon four men, including the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr.

If Planned Parenthood wanted to distance itself from the views of Margaret Sanger, they could do so in less time than it took me to assemble this post.  If they wanted to simply say she was mis-quoted it would take even less time.  They could even steal the Lutheran comments above and change the words a little.  I’d settle for “We applaud her early efforts at family planning though some of her efforts to exterminate those she found unnecessary and create a master race, while perhaps notable for being several years ahead of Hitler’s initiatives, might be considered by some on the right to be a little extreme.” Instead, we read nothing but praise, accolades and reaffirmation.

I guess we have our answer.

Latest From Kansans For Life

Dear RJ,

People are asking what’s in store for the pro-life movement in Kansas following the murder of abortionist George Tiller.  It should go without saying that what happened to George Tiller was horribly wrong because it is murder and we do not condone violence of any kind!

We are pro-LIFE and we can rightly be proud of our efforts to defend human life, especially in the areas of abortion, infanticide, euthanasia, and destructive embryonic stem cell research, where laws are lacking or even permissive.

We must continue our educational efforts and even expand them.  We will do this, as always, by telling the truth. Kansans for Life has always spoken about this issue responsibly and without undue embellishment. At the same time, we soundly reject the notion that it is in any way legitimate to call the plainly stated truth “inflammatory rhetoric.”

Here is the current status of the abortion issue in Kansas and a few things you can do.

First, with Tiller’s clinic, Women’s Health Care Services (WHCS), closed for now, we should look to Planned Parenthood– the largest provider, promoter, and defender of unrestricted abortion in the United States. There are two actions you should take:

?  The Planned Parenthood office in Wichita at 2226 E. Central had been referring women to Tiller’s clinic for abortions, but now they may be planning to do perform them. Those who have been peacefully praying at Tiller’s clinic should prayerfully consider peacefully praying at Planned Parenthood.  Pregnant women are in need of our pro-life help at that business –especially if they begin doing abortions

?  The Planned Parenthood clinic in Overland Parkfaces felony charges for illegal abortions and falsifying medical records. The Kansas Department of Health has refused to verify documents needed for prosecution by the local district attorney.  A judge in the original case, with legal possession of these documents, has been silenced at the request of Attorney General Stephen Six.  A ruling on this document matter is expected shortly by the Kansas Supreme Court, although it is worrisome that 4 of the 7 justices are Sebelius appointees.

Although Six has clear legal authority to directly access the documents, he has refused to prosecute Planned Parenthood (as did his predecessor Paul Morrison).  Please write Mr. Six a respectful letter asking him to lift the gag from the judge and to prosecute Planned Parenthood if the Supreme Court rules prevents the district attorney from accessing the necessary documents. You can write him at: Kansas A.G. Steve Six, Memorial Hall, 2nd Floor, 120  SW 10th Street, Topeka, KS 66612

Second, although the status of WHCS (Tiller’s clinic) remains in question, the state Board of Healing Arts already began the process to revoke Tiller’s license in December 2008. They based it on his clinic performing post-viability abortions repeatedly using the same doctor (Kristin Neuhaus) when the law requires an unaffiliated doctor be consulted. The Board pointed out she was financially dependent on Tiller—a charge KFL made in our petition for the grand jury in 2007.

It is true that on March 27th, a 6-member jury exonerated Tiller for illegal affiliation with Neuhaus for some cases in 2003. But the jury was charged with being convinced without doubt whether her arrangement was an affiliation and the state prosecutor failed to document the money trail.  The prosecutor also failed to bring any witnesses to the stand other than Neuhaus, who stopped co-operating with the prosecutor during the trial. Probably most convincing to the jury was Tiller’s story that his friend, Larry Buening–the long-time executive director of the state medical regulation board– had actually told Tiller how to subvert the law using Neuhaus!  Although his excuse is not a defense for law-breaking, it carried a lot of weight to a jury who had heard 4 days of testimony about how necessary Tiller’s clinic was for saving women.

While the petition to revoke Tiller’s license may now be moot, the Board has an ethical and statutory responsibility to protect citizens from continued illegal abortions by doing at least two things:

?  taking disciplinary actions against the four other Board-licensed doctors who have been involved at Women’s Health Care Services in Wichita {Kristin Neuhaus, Shelly Sella, Susan Robinson and LeRoy Carhart}.

?  make rulings preventing any Kansas physician from undermining abortion law using the “Neuhaus rubber-stamping mechanism”, and by inaccurately reporting the reasons for post-viability abortions.

The Board has several open complaints relating to late-term abortions, including one from KFL on behalf of 8,000 citizens who signed our petition. That complaint is a voluminous listing of errors in the way the Board has exonerated physicians investigated for illegal post-viability abortions.

Thankfully, the Board’s new executive director, Jack Confer, comes from Arizona and is not a personal friend of any Kansas physician, unlike the last Board director who was Tiller’s personal ally.  Please write to Mr. Confer asking that the Board NOT drop this issue, but pursue disciplinary actions and adopt necessary regulations to end the blatant undermining of our abortion statutes. The contact info is: Mr. Jack Confer, Executive Director, KS Medical Board of Healing Arts, 235 S Topeka Blvd., Topeka, KS 66603.

Finally, as always, we will continue our educational, legislative, political action efforts and as always, we need your help to do so!

We know there is hope because we put our hope in God first and foremost, and we always will.

Yours for LIFE, David Gittrich, State Development Director

George Tiller Death Penalty Irony

Again, let me state in the strongest possible way, that the murder of George Tiller was wrong, completely unjustifiable, against everything for which the Pro-Life community stands and merits the maximum penalty under Kansas law.  Of course, this would exclude the death penalty as that too is contrary to a Pro-Life position.

That said, I am struck by the fact that the State of Kansas cannot pursue the death penalty in its case against Dr. Tiller’s accused killer, since it did not meet certain criteria. Under Kansas law, there has to be an “aggravating factor” for the death penalty: multiple victims, murder for hire, etc.

Ironic in this case.  Very sad and ironic.