TIME TO DO THE RIGHT THING: CONCERNS AND FALLING DOWN FAILURES IN THE MORRISON/NEUFELD TILLER INVESTIGATION
TIME TO DO THE RIGHT THING: CONCERNS AND FALLING DOWN FAILURES IN THE MORRISON/NEUFELD TILLER INVESTIGATION
By Tim Golba
June 2. 2007
Five courageous Kansas legislators demonstrated their commitment to defending the unborn by submitting their resignations to the House Speaker Melvin Neufeld on the morning of Sine Die. They desperately tried to reason with the speaker, but at the vary least they drew the line in the sand with their unprecedented resignations.
I wish to commend these five legislators for standing together for the babies!
Up till now, I have been reluctantly willing to extend to the House Speaker the benefit of the doubt when he recently requested “thirty to forty more days” to execute his plan (a time period that expires about mid to late June) .
Here are my concerns:
JUDICIAL FAILURE: A Wichita district attorney and a traffic judge blocked a standing attorney general’s charges (filed in December, 2006 by then Attorney General Phill Kline) against George Tiller with no legal basis to stand on.
JUDICIAL COVER-UP: The traffic judge who had received campaign contributions from Tiller’s attorney and the district attorney was charged with ethical violations for not removing himself from the case. These complaints were dismissed because he claimed that he did not look at his own campaign’s reports.
JUDICIAL FAILURE: Two judges have found probable cause to believe that crimes have been committed. The latest judge found the evidence of criminal activity was directly linked to Tiller. All the evidence to support that finding was filed with original court case and has been available directly to the Attorney General since he was sworn into office.
The allegations claim that Dr. Tiller performed abortions for temporary mental health concerns. Considering the fact that Carla Stovall, who is pro-choice, stated in an AG’s opinion that temporary mental health concerns did not justify a late-term abortion on a viable fetus – do not the allegations indicate that Tiller violated the law?
Does the complaint not list the actual diagnosis provided for the abortions? If so, why has Paul Morrison not filed charges? Why did Morrison dismiss the appeal that he promised not to interfere with?
JUDICIAL COVER-UP: Attorney General Paul Morrison fired the Democrat special prosecutor and then has stalled time and again to make a conclusive statement regarding the 30 charges. Let’s not forget the huge campaign debt that Morrison has to Tiller and Planned Parenthood.
LEGISLATIVE INACTION: After the Federal and State Affairs committee voted 12-8 to a approve a resolution designed to force Morrison to reinstate all 30 charge counts against Tiller, Speaker Melvin Neufeld “forbade” a vote on the floor (according to Tim Carpenter of the Capital-Journal 6-1-07).
LEGISLATIVE INACTION: Speaker Neufeld thus far refused to allow the Federal and State Affairs or the Appropriations Committees to have subpoena power to investigate these judicial failures. “Witch hunts” is how Neufeld recently characterized the process of the legislative branch holding the judicial branch accountable for enforcing the law.
LEGISLATIVE LEADERSHIP PROMISES: Speaker Melvin Neufeld, the Kansas House Speaker and others in House Leadership are attempting to buy themselves some time by promising a coming announcement of new initiatives in the battle against abortion. The speaker indicated to me along with others that he needed another thirty to forty days to execute his plan. He made this “promise” in mid-May and now his time has about run.
IS THIS NOT OBVIOUS? Paul Morrison is no more inclined to enforce the law than any of the other Tiller bought political cronies that have covered for him to date.
It is time to place principle and the rule of law (in opposition to the Tiller killing machine) above politics and just simply do the right thing!
There are a lot of unanswered questions. The mid to late June extension for Speaker Neufeld’s plan is fast approaching.
As a result, every pro-life advocate, every pro-life citizen of this state now anxiously awaits the fruit that will come from the Speaker's investigative and legislative efforts during the next few weeks. As always, it is our responsibility to monitor the progress of our public officials as they represent our best interests and to hold them up in prayer.