by John B. Judis
... And in 1991, Terry's Operation Rescue staged a Summer of Mercy in Wichita, which attracted protestors who blockaded Tiller's clinic for six weeks. At the summer's end, Pat Robertson urged a crowd of 35,000 at the Wichita State College Stadium to transform the state's politics ... Before long, the more extreme GOPers were taking over party committees and seeing their candidates elected to state offices ... At the center of this rightward shift in the Republican Party was a Johnson County (Kansas City) lawyer and radio personality, Phill Kline ... When he ran successfully for attorney general in 2002 .. Kline focused almost entirely on bringing criminal cases against Tiller ... He was defeated for re-election by a Democrat who dismissed the 30 charges ... Tiller was never convicted .. but there is an ethics complaint from the state Board for the Discipline of Attorneys pending against Kline, who . left Kansas to become a law professor at .. Liberty University ... Operation Rescue, which inspired the Republican right, remains in business ...
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=104815012Interesting brief history
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