Abortion

By Barb Shelly, Kansas City Star editorial page columnist

The appalling charges being filed against Burrell E. Mohler Sr. and a growing circle of his relatives and acquaintances raise the question of whether child rape went unreported.

By Barb Shelly, Kansas City Star editorial page columnist

According to the AP, Scott Roeder will argue at trial that it should be legal to use lethal force to protect a fetus, just as lethal force can be justified to protect a child.

By Barb Shelly, Kansas City Star editorial page columnist

Good for eBay. It won't allow anti-abortion extremists to post violence-glorifying items on its Internet auction service.

Supporters of accused killer Dennis Roeder had planned to auction items such as an autographed copy of "A Time to Kill," a firebomber's memoir; and a manual with suggestions for closing abortion clinics, including by bombing. Money raised was intended to be used for Roeder's legal defense. He is accused of murdering abortion doctor George Tiller as Tiller attended church.

By Barb Shelly, Kansas City Star editorial page columnist

Former Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline uses the ACORN scandal to rehash his old claims that unreported child rape was rampant in Kansas, and his efforts to stop it were thwarted by a united front involving George Tiller, Planned Parenthood, Kathleen Sebelius and the liberal media.

By Maggie Jackson, Kansas City Star Reader Advisory Panel

LeRoy Carhart has decided to take on George Tiller’s mission and may even move his clinic to Kansas. He has big and potentially dangerous shoes to fill.

By Yael T. Abouhalkah, Kansas City Star Editorial Page columnist

With the death of one abortion provider still fresh in the public's mind, an anti-abortion group has set its sights on driving another doctor who provides legal services to women out of business.

Of course, the Operation Rescue group says it will do so peacefully this weekend, with protests, not guns.

By Arturo Mora, Kansas City Star Midwest Voices columnist 2009

Randall Terry wrote here last week comparing his anti-abortion tactics to those of past social movements. He makes some valid points. In the end, however, he fails to recognize that there is another side to the issue, the rights of women to control their own bodies.

By Randall Terry, Special to The Kansas City Star

Well, Mary Sanchez got one thing right in her column: (7/21: “Randall Terry won’t go quietly, if he goes at all”): I hate getting old! (But it sure beats the alternative.)

By Tina Morrison, Kansas City Star Midwest Voices columnist

This past spring, the Missouri House voted 115-43 to pass House Bill 226, which specified that “no pharmacy can be required to perform, assist, recommend, refer to, or participate in any act or service resulting in an abortion and it will be immune from liability for refusing to do so.”

By Mary Sanchez, Kansas City Star columnist

Randall Terry doesn’t like growing old.

The firebrand anti-abortionist has hit the big 5-0 and says he detests its achy effects. You’d never know by watching him lately.

By Barb Shelly, Kansas City Star editorial page columnist

Operation Rescue, the aggressive anti-abortion group based in Wichita, Kan., made tracks to distance itself from the murder early this month of abortion doctor George Tiller.

By Barb Shelly, Kansas City Star editorial page columnist

As we await the vetting of a new Supreme Court justice and abhor the murder of an abortion doctor, a little-remembered circumstance of the landmark Roe v. Wade decision is worth examining.

In the beginning, it was more about protecting doctors than empowering women.

Kansas City Star Thursday editorial

Whether one supports or abhors the right to abortion, the shuttering of George Tiller’s Wichita clinic is a tragedy for American democracy.

Irrational violence has trumped public policy. A practice, which this country has debated but which remains legal, has now been severely restricted because of a killer’s savage actions.

By Barb Shelly, Kansas City Star editorial page columnist

Who can blame George Tiller's family for declining to re-open his clinic? They understand that to do so would put more more physicians and staff at risk of harassment, threats and bodily harm.

By Barb Shelly, Kansas City Star editorial page columnist

News of Dr. George Tiller's death was only hours old last week when bloggers began asking the question: What kind of church accepts a doctor who performs abortions into its membership?

By Barb Shelly, Kansas City Star editorial page columnist

Phillip Wood and his wife were joyfully preparing for the births of twin boys when, midway through the pregnancy, everything went wrong.

Kansas City Star Tuesday editorial

One of the great tragedies of the murder of Wichita doctor George Tiller is that it enables public policy to be shaped by a bullet.

This is a horrible notion, and must be rejected by all.

By Yael T. Abouhalkah, Kansas City Star Editorial Page columnist

The outspoken leaders of anti-abortion groups can save their feeble "we're shocked and saddened" statements. They are privately pleased at George Tiller's murder on Sunday.

By Barb Shelly, Kansas City Star editorial page columnist

Operation Rescue, the militant anti-abortion group that has hounded slain physician George Tiller for years, has issued a statement decrying his murder.

By The Kansas City Star Editorial Board

Only 26 University of Notre Dame graduates skipped their commencement ceremony Sunday to protest the school’s decision to give President Barack Obama a speaker’s platform and an honorary degree.

By Yael T. Abouhalkah, Kansas City Star Editorial Page columnist

A new Gallup Poll contains stunning news for the pro-choice crowd: Their side is losing, and the pro-life/anti-abortion side is finally winning.

The poll is bound to be a deep concern to pro-choice backers who want abortion to remain legal.

GoldenDomeUSCapitol Obama:DoubleDomer?By Larry Marsh, Kansas City Star Midwest Voices columnist

Notre Dame has a long tradition of awarding honorary degrees to people with a wide range of religious beliefs and political positions. Why should it break with its traditions now?

By Barb Shelly, Kansas City Star Editorial Page columnist

Phill Kline was predictably displeased with the way his successors in the Kansas attorney general’s office handled the prosecution of Wichita abortion provider George Tiller.

By Melvina Young, Kansas City Star Midwest Voices columnist 2007

Abortion rights oponents think women are stupid: They don't think women understand what terminating a pregnancy means. The real question is whether Kansas governor Kathleen Sebelius agrees.

By Barb Shelly, Kansas City Star editorial page columnist

On its first day back from spring break, the Missouri Senate spent a little more than five hours debating a controversial bill that would make it a crime to coerce a woman into having an abortion.

By Joseph F. Naumann, Special to The Star

As a Catholic priest, my life is dedicated to attempting to bring people to Jesus Christ. In our Catholic faith, we believe that Jesus makes himself uniquely present to us through our reception of the Eucharist.

By Mary Sanchez, Kansas City Star columnist

Once upon a time in the Land of Oz, President Obama’s Health and Human Services nominee did a very regrettable thing.

By Barb Shelly, Kansas City Star editorial page columnist

Archbishop Joseph Naumann of Kansas City, Kan., has written a

By Barb Shelly, Kansas City Star editorial page columnist

Single-issue anti-abortion groups vow to fight an effort to appoint Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius as U.S. health and human services secretary, the AP is reporting.