Topeka — An attorney for Dr. Ann Kristin Neuhaus today said she had no financial relationship with Dr. George Tiller in consulting on late-term abortions.
"Dr. Neuhaus wasn't paid anything by Dr. Tiller," said Jack Focht of Wichita. "She didn't have any financial relationship with him," he said.
On Thursday, Attorney General Paul Morrison filed 19 misdemeanor charges against Tiller, alleging that he violated the late-term abortion law.
Under Kansas law, abortions after 22 weeks of pregnancy are illegal unless two physicians determine that continuation of the pregnancy threatens the life or health of the mother.
The two determining physicians cannot have any legal or financial ties, according to the law.
Morrison alleges that Neuhaus, of Nortonville, who was consulted as the second physician of record in 19 of the reviewed abortions, had financial ties to Tiller.
But Focht said that wasn't the case.
"He (Tiller) did not pay her for those referrals. I think he (Morrison) is making a strained interpretation of the law," Focht said.
Neuhaus operated an abortion clinic from 1997 to 2002 at 205 W. Eighth St. in Lawrence.
Neuhaus said she had to close the clinic because of debt incurred from several weeks of inactivity in 2001 after the Kansas Board of Healing Arts began investigating an allegation that Neuhaus performed an abortion on a patient who had withdrawn consent. The charge was never substantiated.
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SettingTheRecordStraight (anonymous) says…
How embarrassing for Nortonville that Neuhaus lives there.
stuckinthemiddle (anonymous) says…
SettingTheRecordStraight
What's embarrassing about it?
Please, set the record staight...
stuckinthemiddle (anonymous) says…
spywell
Why would she have to move again?
stuckinthemiddle (anonymous) says…
parkay
Do you have a source for all of that? The wording leads me to believe that it's taken for an anti-choice site.
stuckinthemiddle (anonymous) says…
Chief
Sources? Proof? Evidence?
Got anything other than accusations and worn out political rhetoric?
stuckinthemiddle (anonymous) says…
cynical
I've found that things can get pretty quiet around here when you start asking for anything of value.
dbrm4ever2006 (Bobbi Reid) says…
my daughter went to daycare with Neuhaus's son. She is an odd person, and I am sorry but anyone that can kill an unborn child is heartless and evil in my opinion.
Baille (anonymous) says…
Abortion is generally legal. "Unborn" and "child" as a phrase makes no sense legally and in other contexts such a phrase remains an affirmation of faith more than anything else. However, facts be facts:
"neuhaus, Ann K, MD Lawrence, KS #04-21596 Limitation 08-18-01
neuhaus, Ann K, MD Lawrence, KS #04-21596 Termination of Emergency Limitation 09-08-00
neuhaus, Ann K, MD Lawrence, KS #04-21596 Emergency Limitation 08-12-00
neuhaus, Ann, MD Lawrence, KS #04-21596 Limitation 10-18-99"
Details can be found at http://www.ksbha.org/boardactions/alp...
By the way, this is an excellent resource for anyone wanting to know more about their doctor or his/her partners.
Baille (anonymous) says…
Still curious? http://www.kscourts.org/orab.htm
erod0723 (anonymous) says…
"Anyone that kills infants is morally bankrupt so lying should come as no problem to them."
Hey Chief,
fetuses aren't people.
dbrm4ever2006 (Bobbi Reid) says…
erod, the minute a fetus has a heartbeat, they are a person...
Baille (anonymous) says…
Really? Crap. That changes everything...
Sigmund (anonymous) says…
Marion, most, most interesting suggestion!!!!!
dbrm4ever2006 (Bobbi Reid) says…
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dbrm4ever2006 (Anonymous) says:
erod, the minute a fetus has a heartbeat, they are a person:
That is your personal belief. However not everyone believes that.So what makes your belief right and others wrong?
Because anyone with kids, and half a brain believes this to be true. Murder is murder know matter if it is legalized or not. Killing someone with a heartbeat is murder.
dbrm4ever2006 (Bobbi Reid) says…
I do live in the real world... I do not visit anti abortion sites, I have my own opinion. I have two beautiful kids. For all of those women out there, that want to KILL their unborn child there are other options such as adoption. How many people in this world are waiting to adopt??? I am not against abortion if it will save a person's life, or if the person is say 10 years old. I am against people using it as a form of birth control. If you can't use a condom, then quit spreading your legs. I am tired of hearing people say oh well, it was just a baby. That baby was innocent, and never asked to be conceived.
true_patriot (anonymous) says…
Baby-killers, killing unborn "children". Blah blah blah. Most of the people i've met that are ignorant of the history of abortion in civilization prior to legalization (the rich have safe abortions while the poor have nasty messy deadly abortions) and that pull out the self-righteous baby-killers reference at the drop of a hat (like anyone at all really is in favor of "killing babies") are the same people that elected and then re-elected leadership that as a matter of choice jumped through hoops to send off grown Americans with families and entire communities that depend on them to die, and to kill entire families on the far side of the world in a country which presented no danger to our country.
They also tend to be people that elect and re-elect leadership that believes in denying pre- and post- natal care to a significant portion of the American citizenry, as well as in denying support to single working mothers and same-sex family arrangements that could provide better lives for otherwise neglected children. So when they say they are standing up for the rights of zygotes and foetuses but then are the opposite of "pro-life" when it comes to the entire broad canvas of life, from pre- and post- natal babies, toddlers, children, and teen-agers to adults, husbands, fathers, mothers, and wives, i don't buy it.