Contact: Mary Kay Culp, State Exec. Dir., Kansans for Life, 913-406-4446

TOPEKA, Kan., June 16, 2011 /Standard Newswire/ -- The two U.S. Senators from Kansas, Pat Roberts and Jerry Moran, have announced their opposition to Obama U.S. Court of Appeals nominee Steve Six.

Former Democrat Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius appointed Six to district judge in 2005 and then appointed him as a replacement state Attorney General in Dec. 2007. Six lost his re-election bid in Nov. 2010.

The Senate Judiciary Committee is set to vote on the Six nomination Thursday, June 16. The committee has 10 Democrat and 8 Republican members, so Six will likely be recommended for confirmation to the full Senate. However, this show of opposition by the two Kansas senators marks the first important step for defeating pro-abortion Steve Six's rise to a lifelong seat on the federal bench.

Many other groups, inside and outside of Kansas, expressed opposition to the nomination, including our national affiliate, the National Right to Life Committee, Inc. in Washington, D.C.

Kansans for Life prepared for Senators a substantial analysis of Six's verbal and written answers to the Judiciary Committee, found here.

Kansans for Life prepared the following document for Senators:

KANSANS FOR LIFE OPPOSES NOMINATION OF STEVE SIX

Prepared by Kansans for Life - June, 2011

In the matter of former Attorney General Steve Six's elevation to the federal bench, it is vital for Senators to understand that Kansas was no ordinary state taking on just another ordinary Attorney General.

In his testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee, Six portrayed himself as merely a disinterested professional letting the assistant attorneys general routinely perform their job. Six has intentionally downplayed the legal chaos that he intensified to the advantage of abortion interests. Kansas' situation of political corruption was dire, and Six failed miserably to restore justice, or even to act impartially.

It had been a depressing, frustrating five years for law-abiding Kansans when Steve Six took over as the Attorney General.

• Women were regularly whisked by ambulance to the hospital from late-term abortions that were supposedly banned. A district court ruling had secured open season for predators to bring their pregnant teen victims to abortion clinics.(1)
   
• More pro-life legislators were being elected but they were just short of overriding Governor Sebelius' annual veto of pro-life measures.(2) The House and Senate held special investigations in the fall of 2007, surfacing the recalcitrance of the state agencies most involved in collusion with the abortionists.
   
• After a grueling 3½ year fight to acquire the evidence of illegal abortions, the Kansas Supreme Court created a unique hurdle and a scrubbing protocol for prosecutors handling these records -- unlike the ordinary caution with which other sensitive medical files are managed.
   
• 2 grand juries had been impaneled by citizen-petitions to investigate law-breaking by the top abortion businesses -- Planned Parenthood and George Tiller.

Steve Six slid into this abortion maelstrom with the veneer of impartiality of his surname -- his father had been a respected Republican Supreme Court justice. But Steve Six's lack of impartiality and integrity quickly emerged within weeks of his appointment: he announced he opposed the subpoena from the Wichita grand jury because of supposed concerns about patient privacy.(3)

At that moment, Six's complete sell-out to the abortion industry's media campaign about abortion patient privacy protection was revealed.(4) The copies of abortion clinic records in his possession had already been immaculately scrubbed of patient-identifying information under protocols from the Court's 2006 Alpha ruling.(5)

The district court judge managing the grand jury said Six was wrong to refuse the subpoena. Six then joined Tiller and the Center for Reproductive Rights in an appeal to the state Supreme Court.(6) This move effectively wasted more than half of the Wichita grand jury's statutorily-limited time.

On May 6, 2008, the Kansas Supreme Court ordered Six to comply with the subpoenas. After waiting two weeks, he then turned over only 34 of the 61 files. If Six had simply done his duty in initially responding to the grand jury -- if he had not literally, as well as ideologically, joined the abortion industry -- the grand jury would have gotten their due quantity of Tiller records.

Read remainder of document, with footnotes, here.