In an interesting twist on the old anti-abortion tactics, pro-lifers in Kansas are using voter petitioned Grand Juries to try to indict a late-term abortion provider in the state. According to the NYT, social conservatives have used the technique with limited success against porn and adult toy distributors. And I say limited in the sense that the only thing they've done is stigmatize a few stores to the point where they closed all together. Is it just me, or does the whole thing smack of base harassment? I think it's interesting to note that the one of the first politicians quoted was a local Republican bemoaning the abuse of an otherwise useful populist tool.
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Date: June 17, 2008 1:13:44 PM EDT
Subject: Grand Juries Become Latest Abortion Battlefield
Source: NYT > U.S.
Author: By MONICA DAVEY
Under an 1887 statute, Kansans gathered signatures to demand that a grand jury investigate an abortion clinic.
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