Today's edition of Welcome To Gilead:
"Attorney General Phill Kline, a Republican who has made fighting abortion a staple of his two years in the post, is demanding the complete medical files of scores of women and girls who had late-term abortions, saying on Thursday that he needs the information to prosecute criminal cases.
Although Mr. Kline emphasized statutory rape in his news conference, many here on both sides of the abortion debate said they suspected that his real target was doctors who provide late-term abortions."
Political Animal: "If he's really serious, all he needs to do is keep track of birth records. Any teenager who has a baby at an age younger than 16 years and nine months has pretty clearly fallen afoul of the law and ought to be investigated. So why not do that? The answer is obvious: Kline has no interest in prosecuting statutory rape, he has an interest in shutting down abortion clinics and family planning services — or at least harrassing them as much as possible. That's good wedge politics, after all. Investigating thousands of single teenage mothers, on the other hand, isn't."
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Will there be an outcry from so called small-government conservatives about Kline's digging through the medical records of his constituents? Or is partisanship more important than our fundamental rights?
And Kos even breaks out the F word: "I don't use the word fascist lightly - but what else can you call this? This is an outrage. What does Kansas think of this man? What do Republicans think of him?"
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