The $92,672 campaign goal is symbolic and personal. It is the amount the State of Kansas is seeking to collect for the Kansas State Board of Healing Arts (KSBHA) from me after a highly prejudiced political inquisition. Four of the 9 practicing physicians on the board recused themselves from this judgement against me, but many who are political appointments of Gov. Sam Brownback, are not qualified medical professionals and have taken anti-abortion so-called "pro-life" public positions. To see a list of the members for yourself, click here.
I practiced for years, serving thousands of patients as a family physician before 1991. After the 1991 so-called "Summer of Mercy" in Wichita, Ks. I helped several doctors who were being victimized for performing abortions in Kansas.
Years later, after performing nearly 10,000 pregnancy terminations and providing the state-mandated 2nd opinion for patients of the late Dr. George Tiller, KSBHA lawyers and investigators did what their terrorist sympathizers couldn't - financially destroyed me and my family.
WHAT YOUR DONATION WILL DO IN KANSAS
Some members and employees of KSBHA, Gov. Sam Brownback and a large number of legislators are determined to outlaw safe, legal and clean reproductive health choices for women in Kansas.
Your donation, and the successful culmination of this fundraiser to restore our 10 acre family farm, will send a powerful message for reproductive choice to lawmakers, religious zealots and their terrorist sympathizers in Kansas. A similar life-long message of hope and renewal I gave nearly 10,000 women in my career before being targeted and financially ruined.
I have been persecuted, stalked and the victim of domestic terror campaigns by both the public and underground anti-abortion political groups in Kansas and nationwide. The rate of KSBHA investigations of those providing pregnancy termination is around 50% or higher. For non-providers, it is less than 1%, an astronomical difference and clear evidence of a long-standing prejudicial pattern of administrative practices by the Kansas medical board.
None of my patients have been injured or are party to the complaints filed against me, Instead KSBHA used a complaint filed by a convicted clinic bombing conspirator (one of many of hers that they have pursued over the years) to destroy my career and force my family into bankruptcy.
You can read all the court transcripts, including the former Kansas Attorney General Phil Kline's secret "Inquisition" (yes, that is the official term) against Dr. Tiller at my husband's Welcome to Brownbackistan blog. The itemized bill, including the doughnuts, meals and hotel expenses their "expert" witness incurred are linked here.
My family needs this money to save our run-down 96 year old farmhouse.
Thank you so much for sharing our concern about the fate of women in 21st Century Kansas, and indeed in much of the United States, 40 years post-Roe v. Wade.
