Grand Jury Dismisses Reich Case

A Sedgwick County, Kan., grand jury investigating the death of a woman who died three days after undergoing an abortion at the Women's Health Care Services clinic in Wichita, Kan., has been dismissed without issuing an indictment, county District Attorney Nola Foulston said in a statement issued Monday, the Wichita Eagle reports. Christin Gilbert, a 19-year-old Texas resident with Down syndrome who was 28 weeks pregnant, died on Jan. 13, 2005, after undergoing an abortion at the clinic, which is owned by physician George Tiller. The Kansas State Board of Healing Arts, which regulates physicians, in December 2005 cleared Tiller and his staff of misconduct in Gilbert's death. However, Kansas law allows a grand jury to be formed within 60 days of a petition filed with a state district court if the petition has at least 100 more signatures than 2% of the number of people in the county who voted in the most recent gubernatorial election. Sedgwick County Election Office officials in April delivered a certified petition to Richard Ballinger, chief judge of Kansas's 18th judicial district, to convene a grand jury in Gilbert's case. The petition alleges the clinic committed violations, including involuntary manslaughter, mistreatment of a dependent adult, failure to report abuse of children and violation of abortion-related statutes. The grand jury in May began hearing testimony in the case.

Note--The antiabortion group Operation Rescue, which gathered signatures for the petition, in a statement expressed discontent with the grand jury's investigation.

Oh, boo-hoo. Can't ever accept reality, can you? Abortion does not hurt women, ILLEGAL abortions do. The Reich will stop at nothing. Go stamp your feet somewhere else.