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Of the 16 members of the Kansas Board of Healing Arts, 9 are practicing licensed medical doctors in Kansas, the remainder are lawyers and "public members" all are political appointments of the governor, rotating terms of membership. The current president is a chiropractor, and of the recent appointments by Gov. Brownback at least two who are not even medical professionals, one Anne Hodgdon is a wealthy KC area volunteer-activist for the "pro-life" dominated Johnson County Republican Party. She twitters prayers to "pro-life" legislator leadership conferences. The other recent appointee of Gov. Brownback, is a Wichita area lawyer specializing in adoption and has defended "pro-life" clinic protesters. A direct conflict of interest did not prevent them from ethically withdrawing from the proceedings against Dr. Neuhaus.
Of the 9 practicing medical doctors on KSBHA, 4 formally withdrew themselves from judgement of Dr. Neuhaus and did not vote for her license revocation.
The administrative judge Edward Gaschler, who wrote the opinion, did not allow former staff members of Tiller's clinic who sat in on the mental health evaluations of Dr. Neuhaus on the stand. He also admitted expert witness testimony for KSBHA from a Georgetown University "forensic psychiatrist" who has not treated pregnant women, or girls. An expert witness who stated from the stand she could not imagine any circumstances warranting an abortion for any reason whatsoever. The expert witness billed the Kansas taxpayers over $75,000, including $11,000 for "food" according to public documents of the board. Gaschler did not consider any defense witness of Dr. Neuhaus as credible, one witness is a practicing medical doctor who teaches at KU Med.
The world's foremost expert on the use of the psychiatric manual used in North America wrote a letter in support of Dr. Neuhaus' use of the computer software she used to evaluate the mental health of Dr. Tiller's patients,and refuted the Georgetown University expert witness of the Kansas medical board.
Three other doctors, not licensed in Kansas, but who worked with Dr. Neuhaus at Tiller's Wichita clinic were never contacted by the board to testify, either for, or against Dr. Neuhaus. One has stated that she witnessed Dr. Neuhaus spending "at least an hour" with each of the patients in question.
The news media did not report ANY of the ABOVE, and badly failed in doing so.
In the end like the subject of this article in the Kansas City Star the expenses will inevitably be paid by KANSAS TAXPAYERS for all this and the millions wasted by former Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline for his persecution of women seeking their legal right to abortion.
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http://www.kansascity.com/2012/07/10/3698499/kansas-ag-pays-675k-to-defend.html#storylink=cpy
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