Kansas City abortion clinic closes without warning

Pro-Life Newsletter
Volume 32, Issue 4
Sept/Oct 2014
Affiliate of the National Right to Life Committee
Kansas City abortion clinic closes without warning
The Aid for Women (AFW) abortion clinic
closed abruptly at the end of July, citing the
retirement of its abortionist, Ronald Yeomans
(age 73), as the reason.
The closure was announced on the AFW
website, which was infamous for its churlish
remarks undermining Kansas informed consent statutes and asserted that cancer was a
living human organism like the unborn child.
AFW was ripe for state oversight. The Kansas
clinic licensure and regulation law—long
fought for by Kansans for Life—was twice
vetoed by past Gov. Kathleen Sebelius before
finally being approved by Gov. Sam Brownback in 2011.
AFW applied for—and failed to attain—a
state-issued license in June 2011.
This was hours before the new law was
blocked in federal court from going into effect. Aid for Women was quoted they’d “have
to gut the place” to be in compliance.
AFW abortionists had a long history of malpractice cases and disciplinary actions issued
by the Kansas State Healing Arts Board, including original co-owner abortionists Malcolm Knarr and Sherman Zaremski, as well as
later staff abortionists, Kris Neuhaus, and
Krishna Rajanna.
SORDID HISTORY
Knarr, a convicted drug felon from Oklahoma, opened the business as a Medicaid and
abortion facility in the impoverished inner
city of Kansas City, Kansas in the early
1980’s. In 1993, KFL orchestrated the citizen
petition drive that resulted in a grand jury
convened to force government agencies to
take action against Knarr. During this time, he
was averaging a malpractice suit every few
months.
Although the grand jury was derailed, Knarr
was forced out of medicine in 1994, and the
state Healing Arts Board has kept him on a
permanently suspended license. However,
Knarr was able to keep ownership of the clinic with the Board restriction that he not enter
any Kansas doctor’s office, hospital or other
health-care facility except as a patient or as a
visitor of a patient.
Zaremski, a failed lung doctor, joined AFW
as Knarr’s business partner and fabricated
years of non-existent prescription records.
Zaremski performed at least one abortion, if
not more, on young sisters who were repeatedly victimized by their step-father. He took
retirement after years of battling licensure
penalties and restrictions.
Neuhaus worked for AFW in the mid 1990s,
in Kansas City and a Topeka branch. She
staged a media event “locking out” Knarr at
his own clinic. She then parted company, and
continued on page 2
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Kansas City abortion clinic closes
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worked—and failed—at two abortion businesses in Lawrence and Wichita. During
those years, the Healing Arts Board twice
labeled her a “danger to the public” but let her
keep her license, enabling her to provide
“approval referrals” for late-term abortions at
the George Tiller clinic in Wichita. Neuhaus
lost her medical license two years ago but is
litigating the revocation.
Rajanna was a failed internist who trained at
AFW until he left to set up a competing mill
down the street—a rat-and-rodent-overrun
facility with open syringes of drugs and bags
of fetal parts kept in the staff lunchroom refrigerator. Rajanna lost his license in 2005.
Five years later, Rajanna caused a media
ruckus when he was caught dumping old patient abortion files with personal information
into a school dumpster.
pay for a state license if he knew his sole
Kansas facility, AFW, was imminently
closing?
Yeomans has been an itinerant abortionist for
years, for a long time in West Virginia, so he
may not have retired from abortions, only at
the AFW Kansas City location. The SouthWind abortion clinic appears to need an abortionist—they opened last year in Wichita,
Kansas, with three non-Kansas resident abortionists but only one remains on staff. We
wouldn’t be surprised to find Yeomans on
their roster.
This article is abridged from the full story at
the KFL Blog:kansansforlife.wordpress.com
SUDDEN CLOSINGS
With abortion rates dropping each year, many
abortion businesses across the nation are closing or consolidating. In August 2010, Planned
Parenthood of Kansas Mid-Missouri announced the sudden closing of its small Lawrence clinic merely with a note posted on the
door, explaining only that continued operation
was no longer “financially feasible.”
Yeomans’ Kansas annual medical license
renewal was filed and accepted this month by
the Healing Arts Board. But that begs the
question of why an aging abortionist would
Congratulations to KFL’s attorney,
Jessica Basgall, and husband Frank,
on the June 10th birth of their first
child, Elizabeth Anne.
Brownback & Roberts Under Pro-Abortion Attack
EVERY PRO-LIFE VOTE NEEDED!
Kansans for Life endorses Gov.
SAM BROWNBACK (R)
brownback.com
Brownback signed a law helping end Kansas’ designation as
the late-term abortion capitol
of the U.S. Davis voted against
that bill & many others.*
With his signature, Sam Brownback acted to
protect unborn children and their mothers
from our aggressive, for-profit abortion industry. As promised, he has signed every pro-life
bill put on his desk by the Kansas legislature.
Brownback’s opponent
PAUL DAVIS (D)
is pro-abortion!
A state representative from Lawrence, Paul
Davis voted 80 times against pro-life bills. He
is a radical liberal, a Sebelius ally, and Obama
delegate who took donations from late-term
abortionist George Tiller. Davis running mate,
Jill Docking, is also solidly pro-abortion.
On Sept. 19, Davis said “I think that the best
example of future behavior is past behavior.“
The next day a sordid incident in his past
came to light: Davis’ participation in immoral
activity with a woman at a “men’s club”, discovered during a police raid where the club’s
owner, Davis’ legal client, was caught selling
methamphetamine. More info at ksgop.org.
BROWNBACK SIGNED INTO LAW
PAUL DAVIS VOTED AGAINST:
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A ban on sex-selection abortions
A ban on taxpayer funded abortions
Ending mental health exceptions to the
late-term abortion ban, and closing loopholes in the partial birth abortion ban
Parental consent before abortions can
be performed on a minor
A ban on late-term abortions based on
proven fetal pain capability
Abortion clinic licensing including
death and injury reporting
Matching grants to pregnancy centers
Updating conscience protection for
pro-life doctors & healthcare workers
Creating the new ethical Stem Cell
Therapy Center at KU Medical Center
Kansans for Life endorses
SENATOR PAT ROBERTS (R)
robertsforsenate.com
Sen. Pat Roberts’ re-election race has become central to a potential takeover of
the U.S. Senate by Republicans, something necessary to stop Obamacare, its taxfunded abortions, health care rationing, end-of-life issues and threats to religious liberty!
Senator Roberts voted 64 out of 64 times for pro-life bills, and has strongly opposed Obamacare.
Seniority is key in the U.S. Senate. A Republican majority will make Robert’s positions on the
Health sub-committee of Finance, and the H.E.L.P. committee (the two committees Obamacare
was introduced into) uniquely powerful! New Senators have to wait years for that kind of power!
Roberts’ opponent GREG ORMAN is pro-abortion!
“Independent” Orman ran briefly against Roberts in 2008 as a Democrat.
There’s a reason Democrats pushed their
own candidate, Chad Taylor, off the ballot
to support “Independent” Orman: Orman’s
views are their views and NOW Orman’s
millions are THEIR millions!
vying for his 33rd year in Congress, the
same length of time Roberts has served.
Evidently Orman’s claim about serving “too
long” only applies to Republicans!
Orman says only he can end congressional
Orman has made campaign donations to:
gridlock, when in fact he could end up stop Obama
ping the only way
GREG ORMAN IN HIS OWN WORDS: out of it: A GOP
 Harry Reid
majority in the Sen Hillary Clinton
“REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS”
ate, to match the
“...I trust...women to make
Of the $174,370.00
one in the House!
their own decisions…”
Orman has given to
The media is now
candidates and politi“...it’s time...to move past this issue…”
reporting Orman is
cal parties, only 1%
weak on most conOBAMACARE
($2,000) went to a
servative issues.
Voting
to
overturn
Obamacare
is
pro-life
candidate:
“impractical.” (Assoc. Press: 9/10/14)
Todd Akin in 2006,
Our issue is aborbut don’t be fooled.
tion, biotech issues
HOBBY LOBBY COURT RULING
Orman didn't support
and threats to the
“...a dangerous precedent…”
Akin's pro-life posisick, handicapped
tion, he wanted to
and elderly. OrCAUCUS
nudge Republicans to
man’s
donation
(Majority Leader Vote)
choose Akin over the
history and words
“...if one party is clearly in the majority,
other GOP candidate
clearly show that
I will caucus (vote) with (them)…”
to make it easier for
what our affiliate,
the Democrat (Claire
the National Right
McCaskill) to win. Orman says only that he to Life Committee, said about him is true:
gave to Akin at the request of “a friend”.
As a U.S. Senator: “Orman would be one
In 2006, Orman donated to a Democrat
more pro-abortion, anti-life Democrat.”
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OCT. 15 THOUGH NOV. 4
(For all the pro-life reasons, see inside.)
A shocking and sordid event in the past of pro-abortion candidate for
governor, Paul Davis, came to light Sept. 20th that would end his
campaign if the ballots weren’t already printed, the media could be
counted on to tell the whole story, and such candidates had some
shame. Instead, we anticipate Democrats will try to divert attention
by pumping up coverage of Davis’ Lt. Gov. running mate Jill
Docking. Just know, and share, that she too is solidly pro-abortion.
Greg Orman, Sen. Robert’s millionaire opponent, is also pro-abortion
and also has skeletons in his closet, but of a business/legal kind.
These include his relationship with his friend and former business
partner who is now serving time in federal prison for insider trading.
We will spare families the Davis details here, but you can find them
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