Drama Heightens as Tiller Hearings Resume
Operation Rescue reports on the anticpated drama as Tiller hearings resume on Tuesday, January 6, after a six week hiatus. Tiller faces 19 counts of having committed illegal late-term abortions, including one on a 10-year old girl. Scheduled to provide the anticipated courtroom drama are two fierce political rivals, Phill Kline and Paul Morrison. Morrison defeated Kline as Attorney General but was forced to resign in disgrace after news broke of his adulterous affair with a former employee. That woman, Linda Carter, said in a sworn statement that Morrison pressured her to help him impede on-going abortion investigations by Kline, who took Morrison’s place as Johnson County District Attorney. “Never before have two former attorneys general, and their subordinates – not to mention an illicit lover –been forced to testify by a defendant in a pre-trial motion of a misdemeanor criminal case to give an account for their decisions to prosecute. The proceedings, and the drama they promise to ...