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Hays -- Vandalism (3 incidents) and Desecration of Religious Objects (3 incidents)
In April of 1998, pro-abortionists wreaked havoc at cemeteries and churches in three small western Kansas communities. The smashed figures of Christ, broke headstones, pulled crucifixes from an altar and destroyed them, and vandalized a memorial to unborn children.
This incident is described in Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights. 1998 Report on Anti-Catholicism, available on-line at the Catholic League's Web site at http://www.catholicleague.org/1998report/summary1998.htm.
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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.
"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.
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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.
Wichita -- 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. Witness gave 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.
Chicago Suburban Rescue (CSR) news release, August 21, 1993.
Wichita -- 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.
Chicago Suburban Rescue (CSR) news release, August 21, 1993; Public Forum letter in The Wichita Eagle, July 30, 1991, page 4A.
Wichita -- 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.
Denise Billings and Harry Stilts, telephone conversations with Lynn K. Murphy, November 29, 1994.
Wichita -- 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."
"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.
Wichita -- 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.
Denise Billings and Harry Stilts, telephone conversations with Lynn K. Murphy, November 29, 1994.
Wichita -- Assault
On February 26, 1992, a cowardly pro-abortionist whose wife was having an abortion physically attacked an elderly pro-life woman.
Chicago Suburban Rescue (CSR) news release, August 21, 1993.
Wichita -- 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.
Denise Billings and Harry Stilts, telephone conversations with Lynn K. Murphy, November 29, 1994.
Wichita -- 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."
Denise Billings and Harry Stilts, telephone conversations with Lynn K. Murphy, November 29, 1994.
Wichita -- 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."
"The Facts of Life, Inc." newsletter, December 1992, page 1 and June 1993, pages 4 and 5.
Wichita -- 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.
"The Facts of Life, Inc." newsletter, December 1992, page 1.
Wichita -- Drug Pushing, Fraud (2 incidents) 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 $5000 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.
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.
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