A Kansas doctor who processed referrals for the late George Tiller – a notorious late-term abortionist who boasted of killing thousands of nearly full-term infants in the womb before his death in 2009 – has failed in her bid to win back her medical license after illegally authorizing the dangerous procedure for girls as young as 10 by declaring them mentally ill, even though there was no evidence she actually performed evaluations on any of the girls.
Dr. Ann Kristin Neuhaus, a former abortionist who claims to have killed 10,000 unborn babies herself, was stripped of her license in 2012 after pro-life activists with Operation Rescue filed a complaint alleging she had rubber-stamped nearly a dozen children’s requests for exceptions to the state ban on late-term abortions on the grounds of “mental health” without subjecting them to evaluations as the law required. At the time, women and girls in Kansas could obtain late-term abortions for mental health reasons if they had a second opinion from a doctor who didn’t stand to profit from the abortion. Neuhaus filled this role for Tiller, who called her in whenever he had a prospective post-viability abortion client in order to get an “independent” evaluation and approval. (The law has since been tightened to eliminate the mental health exception.)
Neuhaus claimed that she performed the evaluations, but kept shoddy records in order to preserve Tiller’s clients’ privacy, since the state was buckling down on illegal abortions at the time and investigating abortion facilities. However, the investigation showed that Neuhaus had no psychological training, and used a free online program called PsychManager Lite to perform her evaluations, which took less than five minutes and often occurred after the abortion process had already begun.
When the state licensing board revoked her license in 2012, they declared her “professionally incompetent” and guilty of “unprofessional conduct.” But in 2014, a liberal Kansas judge ordered the board to reconsider, arguing that Neuhaus’ inability to prove she had performed the mental health exams did not mean that they were not done.
On Friday, the state licensing board issued its final ruling in the case. Calling Neuhaus “incapable of successful rehabilitation,” the board upheld its previous decision to bar her from practice.
According to the board, Neuhaus “intentionally, willfully and knowingly committed multiple violations of the Kansas Healing Arts Act; has not learned from prior disciplinary actions; fails to express contrition or otherwise acknowledge the wrongful nature of her conduct; feels justified in her actions and showed no signs of remorse.”
Cheryl Sullenger, spokeswoman for Operation Rescue, said that Neuhaus “exhibited nothing but contempt for the Board of Healing Arts and for any kind of authority over her that might inhibit her from doing something that she feels like she wants to do.”
“So I think that makes her a danger and a person like that should not be practicing medicine,” said Sullenger. “So I am glad they revoked her license, again.”