On March 15, 2005, Detective Howard testified before the Kansas House Committee on Health and Human Services. He gave details on the "disgusting" condition of the abortion mill, as well as on Rajanna's lack of personal hygiene. Howard said that
There were dirty dishes in the sink and on the tabletop, trash everywhere, and roaches crawling across the countertops, with a smell of a stench in the room. Frankly I was reluctant to sit down. ... The medical equipment was cleaned with Clorox and water then put in a 'dishwasher.' ... I thought I had heard and seen every vile, disgusting crime scene, but was in for a new shock when I started this investigation. ... the female witness went on to describe of how she and other girls actually witnessed Rajanna microwave one of the aborted fetuses and stir it into his lunch.
Howard also told
The Pitch that "The clinic was filthy. It was disgusting. It was repulsive. To think that there was invasive surgery going on in that clinic was not a comforting thought. It might remind you of a clinic you'd run into in a Third World country."
In March 2005, the Kansas Board of Healing Arts shut down Rajanna's abortion mill and fined him $1,000, and, on June 11, 2005 it unanimously voted to permanently revoke his medical license for repeatedly violating health and safety standards at his abortion mill. Naturally, the abortionist blamed pro-lifers for his troubles, claiming that they were orchestrating some kind of sinister campaign against him. In July 2005, Rajanna filed a lawsuit against the Board of Healing Arts. Showing contempt for the poor, Rajanna's lawyer argued that his abortion mill should not be shut down, because then low-income patients could not receive care from him. Medical Board member Nancy Welsh asked "Why do they [the poor] deserve a dirty clinic?"
Kansans for Life legislative director Kathy Ostrowski said in response to the lawsuit that "It is ridiculous for Rajanna to deny that his Kansas City clinic was rodent-ridden, filthy and deficient. Even more ridiculous is his claim that the Board of Healing Arts acted as an agent for pro-lifers."
Abortionist Rajanna had already been disciplined by the Medical Board twice in 2000 and 2001 for failing to properly test the blood-types of his patients and for improperly labeling medications.
Kansas House Bill 2829 would require all 2,300 offices that perform outpatient surgery (including abortion mills) to undergo unannounced inspections. Showing once again that they value the availability of abortion far more than they value the health and lives of women, pro-abortionists vehemently opposed this legislation, even though it did not single out abortion mills for attention.
References: "Kansas Abortion Doctor Remains Suspended."
Kansas City Star, April 4, 2005; Allie Johnson. "Mm, Mm Good: Startling Allegations Against an Abortion Doctor Have Been the Centerpiece of Two Years of Legislative Warfare in Kansas."
The Pitch, June 16, 2005; "Abortion Doctor Loses Medical License on Account of "Vile, Disgusting" Clinic, Allegations of Cannibalism."
LifeSite Daily News, June 14, 2005; "Abortion Practitioner Sues Kansas Board to Regain Medical License." LifeNews.com, July 19, 2005; "Alleged Fetus Eater Focus of New Legislation." WorldNetDaily, February 15, 2006.
Lawrence
Attempted Murder and Assault
On September 20, 1998, pro-lifers were demonstrating at the University of Kansas. The Associated Press reported that a pro-abortionist drove his car into the demonstration at a high rate of speed, just missing one of the women holding the signs. Another violent attack occurred the next day when, claiming he was trying to knock down a sign, another pro-abortionist punched a pro-lifer.
References: "Pro-Lifers Attacked by Pro-Aborts on University Campus."
LifeSite Daily News at http://www.lifesite.net, September 25, 1998; Erin Ohm. "Graduate Promotes Open Discussions."
The University Daily Kansan [University of Kansas], May 8, 2003.
Wichita
Felony Assault (2 incidents)
Wichita abortionist George "Killer" Tiller arrived at work on Saturday, January 7, 1989, only to find 67 pro-life rescuers blocking the entrances to his clinic. Enraged, he ran over and seriously injured a pro-lifer with his car, and then rammed a policeman on a motorcycle. Incredibly, the police allowed Tiller to enter the clinic, where he killed ten babies before police finally responded to the demands of outraged rescuers and arrested him. Twenty women were turned away that day by the rescuers.
Tiller was eventually charged with felony assault. The attitude of the police towards him was typically cavalier; while Tiller had attempted to kill a pro-lifer and a cop, he would have gone scot-free had the other activists not demanded his arrest. Meanwhile, all 67 of those attempting to save lives by trespassing (a misdemeanor at most) were arrested and charged as soon as possible.
Attempted Murder
On February 26, 1992, abortionist Darin C. Sparkman ran over pro-life video cameraman Darrel McKinney, who was seriously injured. A civil suit filed against him alleges that he changed direction to back into two pedestrians with his truck, causing permanent injury to one pedestrian. The other pedestrian was not struck. A witness gave a statement that Sparkman "literally burned rubber back toward the above mentioned young men." Sparkman contended that he had backed up only to visually identify the men, one of whom had pointed at him, as regular protesters outside his facility.
Reference: Chicago Suburban Rescue (CSR) news release, August 21, 1993.
Aggravated Assault (2 incidents), Making Terroristic Threats, and Criminal Restraint
On May 27, 2004, pro-lifers were peacefully picketing the home of one of third-trimester abortionist George Tiller's employees (Joan Armentrout), when pro-abortionist Steven Bowring, driving a big Dodge pickup truck deliberately drove up over the curb and aimed his vehicle at a 49-year-old woman pro-lifer. He missed her, then backed up and tried again to run over another group of pro-lifers. Fortunately, his wheel got stuck in a storm drain and, after trying to get back up over the curb, instead drove away. During the entire incident, he had been screaming and cursing.
Pro-lifers recorded the entire incident on videotape.
Bowring began drinking heavily. He went home, began chasing his wife with a knife, then doused her with gasoline and tried to set her on fire. Police were called, and Bowring was arrested and booked into the Sedgwick County Jail on charges of aggravated assault, making a terroristic threat, and criminal restraint.
References: Adam Smeltz. "Police Seek Suspect in Abortion Protest Threat."
Wichita Eagle, May 28, 2004; Jeanine Kiesling. "Crime Connection?" KAKE Television 10 [Wichita, Kansas], May 28, 2004. Downloaded from http://www.kake.com/home/headlines/801712.html on May 31, 2004.
Torture and Assault
On July 21, 1991, police brutally beat pro-life rescuers who were handcuffed and sitting in a police bus. Also, police maced several people in the face while they were laying in the street, while they had their hands cuffed behind their backs.
Reference: Chicago Suburban Rescue (CSR) news release, August 21, 1993; Public Forum letter in
The Wichita Eagle, July 30, 1991, page 4A.
Assault (7 incidents)
At the Wichita Family Planning Clinic abortion mill in Spring 1990, clinic director Deb Riggs maced six pro-lifers and prodded Harry Stilts with an active stun-gun immediately after macing him.
Reference: Denise Billings and Harry Stilts, telephone conversations with Lynn K. Murphy, November 29, 1994.
Battery (2 incidents)
On July 18, 2001, during the second Summer of Mercy series of rescue missions at George Tiller's late term abortion mill in Wichita, Kansas, police arrested two pro-aborts for battery. As usual, the cowards assaulted the weakest pro-lifers: Elderly women. Deputy Chief Stephen Cole said Joshua Klein, 26, of Columbus, Ohio was arrested for pushing a 60-year-old woman from Prairieville, Louisiana, out of the way, and Karen Rose, 30, from Chicago, was arrested for pushing a 52-year old woman from Great Falls, Montana. Both were held on $3,000 bonds. In both cases, the assailants were repeatedly warned by police, and the incidents were witnessed by police officers, Cole said.
Operation Save America said "The arrests show just who are the violent ones. They are those who would conspire to tear innocent little baby boys and girls from their mother's wombs and dismember them."
References: "Arrests Begin." Operation Save America press release dated July 18, 2001; Carl Manning. "Abortion-Rights Supporters Arrested in Wichita." Associated Press, July 18, 2001; Roxana Hegeman. "Police Make First Arrests at Abortion Protest."
The Morning Sun Kansas News, July 19, 2001; "Two Abortion Supporters Arrested for Violence at Pro-Life Rally."
Lifesite Daily News at http://www.lifesite.net, July 19, 2001; "Two Pro-Aborts Arrested at Wichita Demonstrations."
Catholic World News Briefs at http://www.cwnews.com, July 19, 2001.
Assault with a Deadly Weapon (ADW)
A pro-abortionist shot a pro-lifer with a pellet gun at the Wichita Family Planning Clinic abortion mill.
Reference: Denise Billings and Harry Stilts, telephone conversations with Lynn K. Murphy, November 29, 1994.
Assault
On February 26, 1992, a cowardly pro-abortionist whose wife was having an abortion physically attacked an elderly pro-life woman.
Reference: Chicago Suburban Rescue (CSR) news release, August 21, 1993.
Assault
During a 1992 rescue at a local abortion mill, a pro-abortionist poured a bucket of urine on a pro-lifer from his roof-top perch.
Reference: Denise Billings and Harry Stilts, telephone conversations with Lynn K. Murphy, November 29, 1994.
Death Threats (5 incidents) and Vandalism (4 incidents)
During the period 1991 to 1994, pro-abortionists attacked pro-lifers by breaking their car windows, breaking their house windows by throwing bottles of ketchup at them, breaking and entering into the pro-lifer's houses, and placing threatening notes. These notes appeared when pro-lifers would, as part of efforts to sell their homes, have open houses. Upon returning home, they would find notes saying things such as "We know you have kids and your kids are in danger."
Reference: Denise Billings and Harry Stilts, telephone conversations with Lynn K. Murphy, November 29, 1994.
Vandalism (5 incidents)
Pro-abortionists severely vandalized several pro-life businesses at night. These businesses included the Abate Abortion office, the HopeNet office, and Esther's Flower Shop. Pro-abortion activist Raymond Rivera admitted to the vandalism, saying "I was told to antagonize the pro-lifers and I made the girls throw out any pro-life literature before entering the clinic .. We would tell them, 'Those people out there are terrorists, it's safer in here. They're crazy.' I even told one group, 'That woman out there was just released from Meadowview Mental Hospital. Don't talk to her; she killed her family' ... As soon as I got here last August, I joined the "Freedom of Choice Action League." They're big at Pine and Market. Some of them practice witchcraft and sometimes they chalk pentagrams [a symbol of Satan] on the sidewalks ... I had written about how they openly practice witchcraft and how the clinic director tells us, every time we beat up the pro-lifers, to cover their cameras ... I wrote [editorial to the
Wichita Eagle] that pro-abortionists displayed sex toys in front of children and how they dumped semen and urine on people at national rescues. I personally defaced churches, LIFE, Inc., and HopeNet. I apologize for that ... They hate God, they're anti-Christian ..." When asked, "What are the greatest contrasts between pro-choice and pro-life activists?" Rivera answered: "Pro-abortionists are the terrorists, not the pro-lifers. They're the ones throwing bricks through people's windows and doing obscene things. I was shocked when I went to the Crypt to pray and they were screaming and yelling, shouting obscenities, while all the pro-lifers were praying silently."
Reference: "The Facts of Life, Inc." newsletter, December 1992, page 1 and June 1993, pages 4 and 5.
Vandalism (2 incidents)
Every day, a pro-life group called Kansas Coalition for Life set up about 150 white crosses in front of the Women's Health Care Services abortion mill in Wichita, Kansas, which commits late-term abortions. KCL had city permission to set up the crosses on public property in front of the abortuary, and its members had to be in attendance at all times. But, just after noon on July 11, 2004, two pro-abortion men did not like what they saw, so they tore down and broke all but about fifteen of the crosses, causing about $1,000 in damage. They not only tore the crosses out of the ground, they broke them all in half. MaryAnn Cravens, an elderly pro-life woman, was on duty at the time, so the cowardly pro-aborts felt safe. They would not have destroyed the crosses had young pro-life men been in attendance.
Then, like all cowards, they fled the scene.
Mark Gietzen, Chairman of Kansas Coalition for Life, said "As deplorable as the violence to the crosses was, it is nothing in comparison to the violence that the late-term babies undergo inside of the abortion facility, as they are being killed and incinerated, after being stripped of salable body parts. ... The recent beheading of American hostages in Iraq and Saudi Arabia, something that many people cannot bear to look at on TV, is physically and morally equivalent to what happens in every late-term abortion."
References: Tim Potter. "Two Men Destroy Crosses Outside Abortion Clinic." Wichita Eagle, July 13, 2004; Maria Gallagher. "Vandals Damage Pro-Life Cross Display at Wichita, Kansas Abortion Business." LifeNews.com, July 19, 2004.
Vandalism
Pro-abortionists vandalized the LIFE, Inc. building, painting obscene slogans on the glass door and west exterior walls. The painted signature of "Queer Nation" was neatly done with stencils.
Reference: "The Facts of Life, Inc." newsletter, December 1992, page 1.
Drug Dealing, Fraud (2 counts) and Malpractice (5 incidents)
Abortionist William Malcom Knarr, a member of the National Abortion Federation (NAF), had a petition to revoke his medical license state that he performed unnecessary tests and services, lacked malpractice coverage, wrote prescriptions in violation of federal regulations, prescribed or administered drugs without federal registration, improperly monitored drugs, and failed to adhere to standards of care regarding several. The medical board found that the "Licensee has the inability to practice the branch of the Healing Arts for which he is licensed with reasonable skill and safety to patients by reason of illness, alcoholism, excessive use of drugs, controlled substances, chemical or any other type of material or as a result of any mental or physical condition." Knarr was ordered to undergo 5 days evaluation at a treatment center; he refused to release the results of the evaluation to the medical board.
The abortionist was convicted in Oklahoma of the sale of marijuana and LSD and possession of hashish September 2, 1970. He failed to disclose these convictions on federal applications, and an application for hospital privileges when applying for Kansas license. He was given a 4-year suspended prison sentence and a $5,000 fine in 1984 for the false federal application.
An affidavit by a former employee states that no staff at Knarr's abortion mill were RNs or LPNs; all staff, including a receptionist with no medical training, started IVs to produce anesthesia and restore consciousness; one employee was trained at facility to perform sonograms, which she performed for patients; all staff but one assisted in abortion procedures; patients were required to pay for their abortions prior to any other activity; patients who changed their minds about their abortions were charged for office visit and sonogram, such charge usually being $90, even if they had not seen Knarr; after payment, patients would be given materials to read describing the abortion procedure as safe, and differing from the information "which is supposed to be given to the women eight hours before her abortion;" adoption was not offered as an option; patients were told verbally and in clinic materials to disbelieve information given by protesters; cash patients were aborted the same day, regardless of informed consent requirements or intake of food prior to arrival at facility; patient age was not verified with identification; in order to disguise presence in procedure room of staff member who had done pre-procedure counseling, staff would sign records for each other's counseled patients; counselor training consisted of reading materials; staff who scheduled abortion appointment received a percentage of the abortion fee; medical history, blood pressure, and Rh factor testing were done by staff; RhoGam was given in doses not in accordance with
Physicians Desk Reference; Knarr was notified by telephone when all patients were present, and at least four women were expected to be prepped, with feet in stirrups, for abortion prior to his arrival; upon arrival, Knarr would sometimes meet with staff for as long as two hours before proceeding with abortions; women were sent out of facility rather than given somewhere to lie down after insertion of laminaria; due to error in sonogram reading, one patient was discovered to have an advanced pregnancy beyond 16 weeks, resulting in lodging of fetal head, which Knarr crushed with clamps; anesthesia used caused transient amnesia, and women resisting procedure were given more, "If a woman asked Knarr to stop the procedure, he ignored her because he felt she was drugged up and wouldn't remember it;" no check was made to determine if all fetal tissues had been removed; fetal tissues were stored in an unrefrigerated barrel inside the back door; in cases where less than 10 cc of material was removed, tissues were sent to pathologist, sometimes were determined to contain no product of conception; women were not notified of pathology report results and no efforts were made to determine reason for lack of fetal tissue in specimen; torn cervix was a common complication; Knarr once left tenaculum and speculum in a patient; Knarr often arrived appearing disheveled; pelvic inflammatory disease was common; neither post-abortion counseling nor referrals for such were provided; women counseled personally by Knarr always followed through with abortion; a police officer regularly responding to calls about protesters was dating a clinic staff member; 12 vials of Versed became unaccounted for; Versed was administered in manner inconsistent with advice of the
PDR, which recommended its use only in settings "that provide constant monitoring of respiratory and cardiac function;" blood was drawn in exam room or kitchen, and was stored with food in refrigerator; employee found a four-inch fetus in garbage disposal; after Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) inspectors found non-compliance, Knarr still did not conform; cash paid for abortions often was unaccounted for; Knarr appeared to be high on drugs on several occasions; Knarr once completed abortions after stating that he was not alert due to ingestion of drugs; Knarr ingested Talwin from sample packages; employee heard Knarr phoning prescriptions for Xanax for himself and another employee; Wal-Mart pharmacist told employee they would not accept prescriptions from Knarr due to an investigation for over-prescribing drugs; some employees smoked marijuana at a picnic at Knarr's house; and one of his employees used methamphetamine during work hours.
A news article stated that the owner of the building housing Knarr's abortion mill filed suit against him because he "represented to the plaintiff that he would be operating a family practice when in fact it was his intention to operate an abortion clinic," and that operating the clinic instead of family practice office would require changes in plumbing to meet building codes, resulting in a threat by the city to cut off water to all of the tenants the in building, and failure by Knarr to pay the plaintiff expenses incurred as result of operating his abortion clinic.
References:
Wichita Eagle, October 25, 1992;
Topeka Capital-Journal, June 13, 1993 and March 13 and 14, 1994;
Kansas City Star, May 2, 1993; Kansas Medical Board Cases #92-00073 and #92-00205; Kansas District Court #84-20019-01; and Affidavit of S.M. dated October 22, 1992;
Topeka Capital-Journal, March 14 and 15, 2002.