THOUGHTS FROM THE STATE DIRECTOR
Thoughts about Planned Parenthood
Imagine for a moment that you are a fireman who has
received a call from the arsonist about a fire. You
want to respond to investigate the nature of the fire,
the whereabouts of the fire and the intensity of the fire.
However, the arsonist turning in the alarm tells you
that he cannot give you the address of the fire; you will
only be given a spread sheet provided by him with
possible locations for the fire. You are to look at the
spreadsheet and determine what the most likely
spots are for the fire, knowing that the author of the
spreadsheets could be giving you only the information
he wants you to have, not necessarily the information
you need to put out the fire.
An inappropriate and ridiculous situation
That of course is a ridiculous situation that would be
rejected by most people as totally inappropriate. Yet
in Johnson County that is what Planned Parenthood
has proposed for a grand jury called for by a citizen
petition to investigate whether there is enough
evidence to indict Planned Parenthood concerning
alleged violations of the law. Four sitting judges have
found probable cause already; in fact there are 107
charges pending relating to only 29 of the records they
perused.
The target of an investigation supplies their
version of the evidence
The target of this investigation as to whether Planned
Parenthood (Comprehensive Health) is following
Kansas law is Planned Parenthood, yet District Judge
Kevin Moriarty cut a deal with them for them to go
through the records themselves and provide
a "spreadsheet" of information to the grand jury to
investigate whether they need more information. Just
like the arsonist giving the fire department a grid of
possible locations, Planned Parenthood, the target of
the investigation, is going to be trusted to submit a
spreadsheet that will accurately represent what the
Johnson County grand jury has requested to
see.
A travesty
This is an absolute travesty and an affront to every
person who signed the petition to seat the grand jury
and to the grand jury themselves. Anyone who thinks
that justice will be served by allowing the target of the
investigation - Planned Parenthood - to provide
information that could possibly incriminate them
would be like trusting a murderer to supply the pistol
with his fingerprints on it.
Do we want to uphold the rule of law or not?
Everyone who believes that the rule of law should be
upheld should be disturbed by a sitting judge who
agreed to this arrangement, placing himself in the
position of being a witness to the grand jury. Anyone
who has any sense at all would be disturbed by the
fact that justice is being blinded by possible tainted
evidence.
Think about it.
In Him,
Judy Smith
State Director
Concerned Women for America of Kansas
P. O. Box 11233
Shawnee Mission, KS 66207
Phone/Fax: 913-491-1380
Email: director@kansas.cwfa.org
Web site: kansas.cwfa.org |