Kansas D.A. Phill Kline wins victory over Planned Parenthood cover-up

The AP reports:

A Planned Parenthood clinic in suburban Kansas City will turn over a limited number of patient records to a grand jury investigating abortions there, a clinic attorney said Friday.

A grand jury issued a subpoena to the Comprehensive Health in Overland Park clinic last month demanding the records of 16 patients. The clinic has been battling Johnson County District Attorney Phill Kline, an anti-abortion crusader, over whether the subpoena should be enforced.

After a hearing over the dispute Friday in Johnson County District Court, an attorney for the clinic, Pedro Irigonegaray, said it would turn over records for 16 patients that pertain to two restrictions on abortions under Kansas law.

I heard Phill Kline speak at the 2008 Blogs for Life conference hosted by the Family Research Council on January 22nd and here is a video of his presentation. Jill Stanek has a report:

10:45a, EST: KS District Attorney Phill Kline is up. What a guy. You'll recall I've been blogging lately about AG Paul Morrison, who recently had to resign in disgrace due to revelations of an affair with a subordinate. Morrison replaced Kline.

Kline is discussing a new frontier in the pro-life movement, prosecuting abortion clinics for underage abortions. Every underage abortion is evidence of rape or incest. Every state has laws against this. Yet abortion has become a haven for rapists. PP and the ACLU strive to protect minor "rights of privacy".

Kline says we bloggers have tools at hand to uncover complicit abortion mills by finding out the number of underage abortions facilities have reported compared to grant requests, etc.

Jill has been covering the Kansas situation at-length for some time. Dawn Eden as well.

I'm crossing my fingers that this is the first of many more legal victories against Planned Parenthood.

Backstory:

• Excellent case history by Ericka Andersen posted here at Human Events
• Operation Rescue links the an 80-page court document (PDF). Their related posts here.
• LifeNews: Women's Group Worries Kansas Abortion Centers Hiding Statutory Rape

Related:

• WaPo: A Kansan With Conviction
• Wikipedia's Phill Kline entry for general information
• I believe the 40 Days for Life blog has coverage, but right now it appears to be down

[ph/t: Hot Air]

update: Colin Mason of Population Research International writes: "In Defense of Phill Kline."