Grand Juries: Latest Abortion Battlefield

An unusual Kansas law giving ordinary citizens the power to order a grand jury investigation of an alleged crime has provided the state’s anti-abortion movement with a new weapon. Abortion opponents gathered 7,000 petition signatures to demand an investigation of one of the few late-term abortion providers in the country. State Senator John L. Vratil, a Republican Judiciary Committee member, says the law is “being used in a political way to further a political cause, and that was never the purpose of the grand jury system in Kansas.”

New York Times reports