Tied to Tiller?

Human Race | Kansas abortionist faces charges | Timothy Lamer

Morrison points out the charges filed against Tiller

Notorious abortionist George Tiller is going to court. Whether he goes to prison depends on what happens there.

Kansas Attorney General Paul Morrison on June 28 filed 19 misdemeanor charges against Tiller, alleging that the Wichita physician had illegal financial ties with another doctor. Tiller could face a year in jail and $2,500 in fines for each charge, but he's suing to overturn the Kansas law that Morrison alleges he broke.

The law in question says that before a doctor can perform a late-term abortion, another doctor without financial or legal ties to the abortionist must agree that the pregnancy will lead to serious health problems for the mother. Morrison says that Ann Kristin Neuhaus, a doctor who signed off on 19 Tiller abortions, had ties to Tiller.