Kan. abortion foes use 1887 law against clinics
Citizens launch grand jury probes
By Roxana Hegeman
Associated Press / January 18, 2008

WICHITA - Religious conservatives have dusted off a largely forgotten 1887 state law that allows citizens to launch grand jury investigations, and they are using it to help turn Kansas into one of the nation's biggest abortion battlegrounds.

A grand jury that was impaneled Jan. 8 by way of a citizen petition drive is investigating Dr. George Tiller, a Wichita clinic operator abhorred by antiabortion activists because he is one of the nation's few physicians who perform late-term abortions. This is the second such citizen investigation of Tiller since 2006. the rest

Woman jailed for refusing court-required psych exam
Ordered tested after conviction for sidewalk counseling at abortion business
January 18, 2008
By Bob Unruh
© 2008 WorldNetDaily.com

An Iowa grandmother has been banished to jail, including a night in isolation, after refusing to give in to a judge's demand that she submit to a psychiatric exam and take psychotropic drugs if prescribed to mitigate her opposition to abortion, her husband has confirmed.
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