It's about time. After a four-year anti-choice crusade against women's health clinics in Kansas, former Attorney General Phill Kline was slammed by the Kansas Supreme Court on Friday for his baseless attempts to criminalize Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri. The Court said:
Kline exhibits little, if any, respect for the authority of this court or for his responsibility to it and to the rule of law it husbands. His attitude and behavior are inexcusable, particularly for someone who purports to be a professional prosecutor. It is plain that he is interested in the pursuit of justice only as he chooses to define it. (Emphasis mine)
Hallelujah. Peter Brownlie, President and CEO of Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri, responded, "The Court confirms what Planned Parenthood has said all along: Phill Kline is a zealot pursuing a lawless prosecution and misusing the people's trust to advance a radical anti-choice political agenda. We are saddened and angered by the travesties recounted in the Court's opinion, and we are grateful the Court rebuked him for his disgraceful acts."
Related posts:
Kline files 107 counts against a Kansas City Planned Parenthood (Weekly Feminist Reader)
Abortion records seized by Kline now missing (WFR)
Special Prosecutor fired, Kline criticized by governor Kathleen Sebelius (WFR)
Kline's special prosecutor linked to anti-choice terrorists (WFR)
Phill Kline's "investigation" continues
Are you going to second base? The Kansas AG wants to know.
Hearings on Kansas abortion records to be closed
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Yes! It's about time this guy was rebuked. He is dangerous and insane. Hallelujah indeed.
Amen! Glad to see that not everything in the government is messed up.
Thank goodness. Does this mean that he'll see some consequences now? Like maybe he'll get disbarred or at least censured by the bar association (she asks hopefully)???
So what does this do? Don't get me wrong, I'm thrilled that he's been put in his place but does this actually change anything? Can he be censured or disbarred? He's no longer in office so I know they can't punish him in that way any longer....just curious.
I actually use one of the Planned Parenthoods here in Kansas that he was trying to railroad, so I am jumping at joy with this news!!!!!!! YAY!!!!!
This is what it said at the link: "Court Requires Full Accounting of Records, but Stops Just Short of Holding Kline in Contempt"
So that's what this means.
I want to join in the jubilation that finally this axxhole has been put in his place! God I hate this MFer. I lived in Kansas for 20 years, so I should know.
Mary is determined to enjoy her freedom to the fullest; she thinks: “What was the good, after all, of being a woman if one didn’t keep fresh, and cram one’s life with all sorts of views and experiments?”.
For Mary, the spheres of home and work are symbiotic: “to have sat there [in her room] all day long, in the enjoyment of leisure would have been intolerable” (78). She leaves her flat in the morning, rides the tube, looks in shop windows, and mingles with the army of workers on the streets of London. The office of the suffrage society where she works is in Bloomsbury, “at the top of one of the large Russell Square houses, which had once been lived in by a great city merchant and his family, and was now let out in slices to a number of societies... disseminating their views upon the protection of native races, or the value of cereals as foodstuffs”.
In the late nineteenth century, Bloomsbury was a favored location for many organizations dedicated to women’s rights, a choice that, as Lynne Walker has argued, had the effect of undermining the traditional role of women in the domestic sphere: “feminists... adapted their family homes for meetings and other events associated with women’s rights, while the offices of related projects for women’s organisations, night clubs and restaurants were located within walking distance of their homes in Marylebone and Bloomsbury... This juxtaposition of home and work made the home a political space in which social initiatives germinated and developed.”