Monday November 6, 2006
Kansas Abortionist Killed Late-Term Babies for “Maternal Depression”: Fox News
By Gudrun Schultz
TOPEKA, Kansas, November 6, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Notorious Kansas abortionist Dr. George Tiller has been accused of regularly performing late-term abortions on grounds of “maternal depression,” in a report broadcast by Fox News Nov. 3.
Fox television host Bill O’Reilly, on Friday’s edition of The O’Reilly Factor, said a “source inside” told the show that Tiller performs late-term abortions when a patient is “temporarily depressed“, in an interview with Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline.
“Our information says that on almost every medical sheet--and obviously we have a source inside here--it says ‘depression’, O’Reilly told Kline during the broadcast. “I don’t know whether you have that information or not--I don’t know--but that’s what it says.”
O’Reilly said he believed the abortionist was “executing babies.” Kansas law limits abortion to under 23 weeks, unless there is “irreversible impairment of a major bodily function of the pregnant woman.”
Kline recently obtained the records of 90 women who had abortions after 22 weeks gestation from two Kansas abortion clinics, part of an ongoing investigation into reports of sexual abuse of minor girls. Tiller’s Wichita clinic and a Planned Parenthood location in Kansas City fought Kline’s subpoenas for abortion clinic records.
O’Reilly said The Factor, which had investigated Tiller for more than a year, also had evidence that Tiller’s clinic, along with another unnamed abortuary, had failed to report on multiple instances of potential rape victims aged 10 to 15.
Spokesperson for Kline, Sherriene Jones, said the Attorney General didn’t know where O’Reilly obtained his information.
“We don’t know anything about Mr. O’Reilly’s inside source. I assumed he was talking about somebody on the inside of the abortion clinics.”
Tiller and the Planned Parenthood clinic today asked the Kansas Supreme Court to seize the patient records and to investigate Kline and O’Reilly, requesting the appointment of a special prosecutor in the case.
Pedro Irigonegaray, a Topeka attorney representing the clinics, told the Associated Press Fox News should fire O’Reilly. The show’s executive producer David Tabacoff is standing behind the story, however.
See previous LifeSiteNews coverage:
Abortion Records Help Convict Child Rapist – Sentencing Wednesday
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2006/oct/06100209.html
Kansas Investigation into Child Rape Blocked by Two Secret Abortion Clinics
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2005/feb/05022505.html
Kansas AG Kline Gets Disputed Abortion Medical Records Showing Sexual Abuse of Minors
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2006/nov/06110204.html
Abortion Death Revealed - 19-Year-Old Disabled Girl Died at Tiller’s Kansas Clinic
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2005/feb/05022407.html
Read Fox News coverage:
http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2006Nov04/0,4670,KansasAttorneyGeneralOaposReilly,00.html
and:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,227658,00.html
Copyright © LifeSiteNews.com. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivatives License. You may republish this article or portions of it without request provided the content is not altered and it is clearly attributed to "LifeSiteNews.com". Any website publishing of complete or large portions of original LifeSiteNews articles MUST additionally include a live link to www.LifeSiteNews.com. The link is not required for excerpts. Republishing of articles on LifeSiteNews.com from other sources as noted is subject to the conditions of those sources.