More Bullshit Activism: Kansas Demands Private Abortion Records

From CNN:

The Kansas attorney general is demanding abortion clinics turn over the complete medical records of nearly 90 women and girls, saying he needs the material for an investigation into underage sex and illegal late-term abortions.

Two clinics are fighting the request in Kansas Supreme Court, saying the state has no right to such personal information.

But Attorney General Phill Kline, an abortion opponent, insisted Thursday: "I have the duty to investigate and prosecute child rape and other crimes in order to protect Kansas children."

Kline is seeking the records of girls who had abortions and women who received late-term abortions. Sex involving someone under 16 is illegal in Kansas, and it is illegal in the state for doctors to perform an abortion after 22 weeks unless there is reason to believe it is needed to protect the mother's health.

If this were about protecting girls who were the victims of rape, I would be more understanding. But it's not. This is about tormenting females who seek abortions, plain and simple.

No state - until the rabid rightwing got involved has made a practice of going after records of abortions on a hunting expedition to try to prosecute child rapes. Factually speaking, most of these cases are young teenage girls who engaged in consentual sex - likely with boys roughly the same age - who got pregnant and do not want to have a child. At least one parent knew of the pregnancy and were involved, at least in part, in the decison to allow the abortion. For Kansas to perform this fishing expedition is silly at best and a pretty heinous invasion of privacy at worst.

The whole "late term" abortion issue has been pretty much proven to be bogus; doctors simply aren't ripping babies just about to be born into pieces and sucking them out of uteruses (uteri?).

This - like the Schiavo case - is just another way for the rabid right to "protect" human life, specifically unborn human live, with no care to the very live human beings affected. I also suspect Kansas embraces the whole "abstinence only" concept that basically teaches girls how to get pregnant when they do engage in sex.