FAMOUS "BOB" STEPHAN, OLD TIME REPUBLICAN,
GOES PUBLIC AFTER LEAVING HIS JOB WITH KLINE'S OFFICE.
KLINE WANTED COMPLETE FILES, NAMES OF WOMEN AT CLINICS.
Stephan hammered Kline's decision to seek the private abortion records of Kansas females. Stephan said the effort made no sense from the start, but he decided only now to speak publicly because he disagreed with Kline's statements last week about the reason for seeking the records.
In a Kansas City Star article, Kline stated he had "never sought the names of adult women" to prosecute late-term abortions. Kline also has stated he wanted the records to investigate child rape cases.
"He said that he didn't want the names of adult women. You know, that's not true," Stephan said. "The truth is they subpoenaed the records of 90 females and nothing in that subpoena said 'minors only.' It was a request for the total records."
[Kline campaign spokesperson Sherriene] Jones disputed Stephan's recollection of the records request.
"A process had already been established by the district court and the Attorney General's Office to redact the personal information of the women's names," Jones said.
Peter Brownlie, president of Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri, said he saw nothing about crossing out the names of females in Kline's original request.
"The subpoena that we received in September 2004 was a subpoena for the complete, original, entire, unredacted record - all names, all identifying information," Brownlie said. "What we were told to do, in fact, was to hand over the original record in its entirety."
Stephan said seeking the records without names made no sense.
Read complete article at: The Johnson County Sun
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