Grand jury a focus of abortion feud
One of the nation’s few late-term abortion providers is asking the state’s highest court to block a grand jury investigation of him and his Wichita clinic that was initiated by antiabortion groups.
Kansas is one of the few states where citizens can petition to impanel a grand jury. Antiabortion groups collected nearly 7,900 signatures, more than three times the number required, to force Sedgwick County to create a grand jury to consider whether Dr. George Tiller violated a 1998 state law restricting late-term abortions.
Tiller denies the allegations.
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