(10/18/2005)

Concerned Women for America Asks Abortionists to Come Clean:
Are You Assisting Child Rapists?

WASHINGTON -- Concerned Women for America (CWA) commends Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline for his efforts to vigorously prosecute illegal late-term abortions and child molestation in his state. Abortion clinics in Kansas that are hiding relevant documents subpoenaed by the court should rightly be seen for how they are acting – as accomplices.

A Kansas District Court judge found probable cause to believe crimes have been committed and that evidence of the crimes is in the files of abortion clinics. As a result, the judge ordered the clinics to produce these records. They have refused and now the matter is before the Kansas Supreme Court.

Courts frequently subpoena medical records to investigate violent or financial crimes. Hospitals, doctors' offices and clinics routinely respond. Patients' privacy is protected. Yet the Kansas abortion clinics, particularly media-savvy Planned Parenthood, are refusing to hand over documents. Despite their insincere invitation to "investigate us, not our patients," they refuse to cooperate with efforts to provide justice for women and girls.

Claiming they can't turn records over to the court under the pretense of protecting patient privacy, the abortion clinics turn around and give patients' names to campaign and fundraising operators.

Just days before the case was to be brought before the Kansas Supreme Court, agents of the clinics under investigation, owned by late-term abortionist George Tiller, were seen shredding hundred of documents behind its facility.

Obtaining the medical records is vital to tracking down child rapists as well as discovering whether clinics are illegally committing abortions after the 22nd week of pregnancy.

Wendy Wright, CWA's Executive Vice President, concluded, "For once we agree with Planned Parenthood: Attorney General Phill Kline should investigate it and late-term abortionist George Tiller thoroughly. Their actions – before and during this investigation – put them squarely on the side of cooperating with suspected child rapists and not the law.

"We join parents in Kansas in gratitude for Attorney General Kline's perseverance in going after any accomplice to child sexual abusers, especially if they use their position to cover up a crime."

Concerned Women for America (CWA) is the nation's largest public policy women's organization.