Hands-on

[earthrise]

This has been a terrible week for the United States. The only good thing so far seems to be that Gonzales may be wrung out to dry. The rest of it? Not so good

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[snuggly_llama]

I mostly curious about how the heck DOJ plans on enforcing the law. In KS, for example, abortion providers are required to submit data on number/kind of abortions performed to the state dept. of health & env't. Phill Kline, our fmr wacky-fun KS AG, decided he was going to subpoena medical records to see abortions were being performed on underaged girls, ostensibly to prosecute their impregnators under the statutory rape laws. The story hit the media (and the front page of the NY Times) and the resulting backlash (amongst other injudicious legal decisions) ruined Phill's career. (Granted, Phill is now the DA of my parents' county, appointed by some smoke-filled backroom process that has infuriated attorneys statewide.)
Part of the furor was the resources the KS AG's office was devoting to the prosecution of abortion clinics (when there were plenty of meth labs, gang-members and cattle rustlers to prosecute.) My question: When the current DOJ in embroiled in a) employment problems, b) War in Iraq legality of torturing people etc, c)Homeland Security/Wiretapping, etc...when will the DOJ have time or money to allocate to investigating abortion clinics to make sure they're not performing procedure A instead of procedure B?

[wellgull]

Oh simple. They'll wave off the chance to investigate/prosecute torture cases and DHS stuff for the sake of putting resources to where it really counts: ensuring that every exencephalitic fetus has its five minutes of breath time, so it can get baptized before dying in agony.