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The Kansas Meadowlark |
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The Kansas Meadowlark |
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December 19, 2004 |
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Murdered moms and unborn babies have been a central part of two recent news stories:
The recent ghastly murder of a mom in Missouri is troubling to everyone. Many in Kansas are shocked and troubled that a woman from Melvern, Kansas admitted committing the crime in Missouri. How could anyone commit such a horrific murder, kidnap a baby born through violence, and then show off the stolen baby the very next day? An article in today's Washington Post, and reported by MSNBC, suggests that killings of new, expectant mothers mount but these crimes are poorly understood by the public and not accounted for well by police. In Kansas we should not forget how radical Governor Kathleen Sebelius’ views are on this matter. In 1989 Sebelius agreed with a Kansas Supreme Court ruling that killing a fetus was not a crime:
When legislators considered a new law to give an unborn child protection under criminal statues (which the Kansas Supreme Court said was within the power of the legislature), Democrat State Representative Kathleen Sebelius was a member of the House Judiciary Committee. Sebelius was instrumental in blocking any new law to protect unborn children. Why would Sebelius be against such a new law? Sebelius was against protecting unborn children under criminal statutes because such statutes would establish a point at which a fetus is considered a human being. Democrat Sebelius cared less about protecting vulnerable pregnant women and their unborn babies, and cared more about contributors to the Democratic Party in Kansas and Democratic Candidates. Sebelius was trying to protect abortion rights providers, and in particular, Dr. George Tiller in Wichita, who is a well-known 3rd trimester abortionist, and major political contributor. Dr. Tiller could have easily aborted the same “fetus” that has miraculously survived being born during a violent crime, and kidnapped and taken from Missouri to Kansas. Why is everyone horrified by this murder, birth, and kidnapping, but when an 8-month fetus is slaughtered by Dr. Tiller in Wichita that is merely a "choice," and only "extremists" are concerned? It’s bad enough that 3rd trimester abortions are occurring on a daily basis in Wichita, but the money from these expensive procedures is finding its way into Kansas politics and the press is blind to that. Why did Dr. Tiller spend nearly $300,000 in 2002 on politics? Much of Tiller's 2002 money went to preventing Phill Kline from becoming Attorney General. The 2004 tally of Dr. Tiller's political money is still not complete, but it's clear that Tiller and his ProKanDo PAC channeled secret money to influence a number of Kansas Senate races. Dr. Tiller's political money isn’t the biggest scandal here. The biggest scandal is the press ignoring the political money story, especially the Kansas City Star and the Topeka Capital Journal. A few newspapers have been responsible and reported this story, such as the Lawrence Journal World, the Wichita Eagle and the Salina Journal. Why is the Kansas press afraid to report political money that is tied to Dr. Tiller? Only Tom Bell at the Salina Journal in his Aug 4, 2003 commentary mentioned the failure of the Kansas press:
Even with the silent press, not everyone has been blind to the Sebelius/Tiller connection over the years. The late Catholic Archbishop Ignatius Strecker of the Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas noticed Kathleen Sebelius over a decade ago:
Why is the Kansas press afraid of letting the public know the truth about Catholic Governor Kathleen Sebelius? |
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