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Or at least half of it, anyway. The other shoe will drop on Friday.

Kansas Attorney General Paul Morrison released long-awaited findings of an investigation against a Wichita abortion provider today and found that at least half of the charges filed by his predecessor Phill Kline were “without merit.”

Morrison’s office said in a news release today that evidence presented to a Sedgwick County judge had been mixed up in records he obtained from a clinic run by George Tiller, a Wichita physician who is known nationally for providing late-term abortions… [snip]

Tiller’s defense attorney, Dan Monnat, said: “It looks like finally there is being an independent and professional investigation conducted. As we’ve said all along, we are confident that once it is concluded Dr. Tiller will be found innocent of all charges.”

Morrison today said that he found problems in Kline’s investigation and filing of 15 charges accusing Tiller of not properly reporting abortions to the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, as required by law.

The KDHE confirmed, Morrison said, that Tiller’s reporting was accurate and as required under law.

“It’s the same way they’ve accepted it for 10 years,” said Ashley Anstaett, spokeswoman for Morrison.

Come on. You needed a little day-brightener, didn’t you?

Anyway, I don’t think there’s any doubt except among the hundred-percenters that Kline is truly incompetent and was eminently capable of the mistakes attributed to him. I don’t know what all the shots at Kline personally are about, since he’s pretty much radioactive now and therefore not worth the effort, unless the spirit of revenge among the Left at large has filtered down to Morrison’s new pals. The Kansas GOP’s overall incompetence has fairly well ensured that Democratic donations should be up, so that can’t be it. Kline himself pretty much destroyed the opposition to abortion in this state by his own bungling — Tiller is now the demi-god, with power approaching Terry Fox levels for a civilian.

This is all not to mention the fact that, as I have said before, the forces who want abortion abolished are fighting a losing battle. They have framed the issue as one of Christian morality, which, despite the fevered imaginations of the state’s Left, is a sure-fire loser among the public at large.

When I was younger, I didn’t care about this issue at all, but as I’ve aged, I’ve turned fairly hard against it personally I still don’t think it should be illegal — mostly out of the cold calculation that making it illegal will do absolutely nothing to stop it — but I want to have a say in how and why it is done if it is to be done. The genie is out of the bottle. I’m not going to squander what say I do have in it fighting for something — abolition — that is impossible to achieve. It’s perhaps time for Kline’s supporters to make the same calculation, and admit they backed the wrong horse. I do not imagine they will do so.

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