Kris Neuhaus
Remember the Kansas abortionist who over a period of seven years "rubber-stamped" post-viability abortions at the Wichita abortion clinic of the late George Tiller?
Ann Kristin (Kris) Neuhaus is her name and the Kansas Board of Healing Arts is having one heck of a time getting her state license permanently revoked.
This past January, the Board issued a second revocation against Neuhaus. Undaunted, Neuhaus returned to the court that overturned the first revocation.
On March 3, attorneys for Neuhaus petitioned Shawnee County Judge Franklin Theis to block the Board's second (the new) revocation and dismiss the legal expenses that she had been assessed.
A little history: In April 2010, the Board initiated legal action to revoke the medical license of Neuhaus for failure to provide "standard of care" and professional record-keeping for 11 teens aged 10-18 who had obtained third-trimester abortions from Tiller in 2003.
The role Neuhaus was supposed to play under the law was that of an independent "check" on post-viability abortions by providing bona fide second opinions on maternal health.
At that time, Kansas banned all post-viability abortions except under rare occasions threatening maternal life or substantial and irreversible "harm." But the legislative intent was blown sky high when a pro-abortion Kansas Attorney General ruled that the "harm" could be "mental." Tiller testified under oath about the details of his arrangement with Neuhaus. He said he had called over 100 Kansas physicians but none were willing to do such referrals for him.
Tiller said he was connected to a financially desperate Neuhaus who was willing to provide the legally required mental health referrals using an online "Psych-Lite" diagnostic tool. (Neuhaus was never trained as a psychiatric consultant.) What actually transpired, however, was that the "independent" referral from Neuhaus came after she interviewed abortion-seekers (almost exclusively from out-of-state) inside Tiller's clinic just minutes before the procedure was initiated! All this was verified in a Wichita trial record from May 2007.
The Board charged Neuhaus with improperly evaluating those vulnerable girls and breaking state regulations requiring a proper health record for each patient. After extensive hearings by Administrative Law Judge Edward Gashler, the final order of revocation against her license was issued in July 2012 for "professional incompetence" and "failing to meet minimum requirements for maintaining records."
Neuhaus appealed the order to a pro-abortion district court-that of Judge Theis. In March 2014, Theis overturned the Board's revocation, concluding it was too "harsh" a penalty for Neuhaus' atrocious record-keeping. Theis also disagreed with the finding of incompetence and ordered another review by the Board. This past January, the Board issued
a second revocation against Neuhaus on the single issue of incomplete medical files for those 11 teens. This was her "third strike" said the Board;
she had been cited in past years for improper patient documentation and had violated her legal stipulation to amend her ways.The Board order characterized her as stubborn and "incapable of successful rehabilitation," and assessed legal costs at just under $32,000.
But earlier this month Neuhaus petitioned Judge Theis to again block the Board's revocation and dismiss the legal expenses.
The saga continues.