The Kansas Supreme Court will decide tomorrow morning whether it will force Johnson County District Attorney Phill Kline to return medical records to Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri. Planned Parenthood sued Kline after he accused the clinic of breaking Kansas law by performing illegal abortions and forging documents. Planned Parenthood wanted back medical records subpoenaed by Kline. We've been waiting more than a year for the high court's decision. Anticipation, it's keeping me wa
Johnson County District Attorney Phill Kline has a week to hand over a "full and complete" copy of "all materials gathered or generated" in his investigation of Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri to the Kansas Attorney General's Office, the Kansas Supreme Court ruled this morning. The high court also ordered Kline and his subordinates to meet with
Kansas Attorney General Steve Six "to explain the materials" by noon on
January 10, 2009.I came away from reading the high court's ruling w
​Earlier this year, when President Obama zeroed out funding for "abstinence-only sex education" in the 2010 federal budget, parents and teachers who don't want their kids stumbling ignorantly into adolescence celebrated. But that doesn't mean students in the Kansas City region can count on age-appropriate, medically accurate sex education -- unless the community pushes for change.
Jen LaBarbera, an organizer for Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri, says her organization, and o
