Kansans attack abortion via grand juries

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Interesting concept in this article:
**Kansans attack abortion via grand juries **
By ROXANA HEGEMAN, Associated Press Writer

WICHITA, Kan. - Religious conservatives have dusted off a largely forgotten 1887 state law that allows citizens to launch grand jury investigations, and they are using it to help turn Kansas into one of the nation’s biggest abortion battlegrounds.

A grand jury that was impaneled Jan. 8 by way of a citizen petition drive is investigating Dr. George Tiller, a Wichita clinic operator abhorred by anti-abortion activists because he is one of the nation’s few physicians who perform late-term abortions. This is the second such citizen investigation of Tiller since 2006.

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Could see some abuse in the concept, but it is interesting.
 
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