Operation Rescue has released a 906-page packet of public documents that was obtained from the Iowa Attorney General's office through the open records act that reveals an effort by Attorney General Tom Miller and his staff to hinder OR's efforts to obtain a criminal investigation of Planned Parenthood of the Heartland and their "telemed" remote-controlled abortion pill distribution scheme. The documents were sent to Operation Rescue from an anonymous source.
The packet of documents contains a collection of e-mail communications from January, 2008, through July, 2010, between members of the Iowa Attorney General's office and staff members for Planned Parenthood of the Heartland.
The documents reveal that the Attorney General's office attempted to head off Operation Rescue's request of ten county prosecutors for a criminal investigation of PPH's webcam abortion pill distribution scheme that deprives women seeking medical abortions access to physical examination by a licensed physician by alerting county prosecutors to the expected requests.
"Miller's staffers and PPH employees attend the same parties, they ask about each other's surgeries or how the grandkids are. Some AG staffers subscribe to Planned Parenthood's e-mail distribution list. Planned Parenthood staffers have alerted the AG's office to potential negative information about political opponents and even forward some of our press releases to Miller's people. Miller's office has aided PPH staffers in pursuing employment opportunities in the AG's office," said Newman.
"Now that we have seen the cozy nature of the relationships between everyone involved, we are more concerned than ever that an obvious bias in favor of Planned Parenthood exists in Iowa governmental agencies. That presents a grave conflict of interest. Will that bias effect the Iowa Board of Medicine's judgment when it comes to investigating Planned Parenthood as it has adversely affected the county attorneys that were influenced? It very well may have already, and that is troubling. There is a very real possibility that political and personal affiliations are being placed above the health and safety of women in Iowa. That is the very definition of corruption."
Contact: Troy Newman
Source: Operation Rescue
Publish Date: October 20, 2010
