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Conservative activist who forced Kansas abortion vote recount killed in plane crash

by May 18, 2023
May 18, 2023
Conservative activist who forced Kansas abortion vote recount killed in plane crash

Mark Gietzen, a prominent Kansas pro-life activist who forced a recount in the state’s abortion referendum last year, was killed when his single-engine Cessna crashed in northern Nebraska. He was 69.Gietzen was the only person aboard the aircraft, whose flight log said it crashed ‘in unknown circumstances.’Operation Rescue President Troy Newman, a fellow pro-life activist, described Gietzen as ‘irreplaceable,’ and ‘the hardest-working guy I know in the pro-life movement.’

Mark Gietzen, a longtime conservative Republican and anti-abortion activist in Kansas who forced a recount of the state’s decisive vote affirming abortion rights last year has died in a plane crash. He was 69.

The Kansas Republican Party said in a Facebook post that Gietzen, of Wichita, died Tuesday evening in Nebraska.

He was flying a single-engine Cessna 172 Skyhawk when it crashed in a field near O’Neill, Nebraska, about 190 miles northwest of Omaha, according to the Federal Aviation Administration’s crash log. Gietzen was the only person on board and the log said the plane crashed ‘in unknown circumstances.’

Jim Howell, a county commissioner in Sedgwick County, Kansas, which includes Wichita, told The Wichita Eagle that Gietzen had flown to Nebraska to visit his mother.

Gietzen grew up in the Bismarck, North Dakota, area and served in the U.S. Marines before coming to Kansas in the late 1970s to work for aircraft manufacturer Boeing Corp. He became chair of Sedgwick County GOP after ‘Summer of Mercy’ anti-abortion protests in Wichita in 1991 and recruited anti-abortion activists into the party.

A fellow anti-abortion activist, Operation Rescue President Troy Newman, described Gietzen as ‘irreplaceable.’

Newman told The Eagle: ‘He was the hardest-working guy I know in the pro-life movement.’

In August 2022, voters statewide rejected Republicans’ proposed amendment to the state constitution to declare that it doesn’t protect abortion rights, which would have allowed the GOP-controlled Legislature to ban abortion.

When a handful of anti-abortion activists demanded a hand recount of ballots in nine counties that accounted for more than half the vote, Gietzen used credit cards to cover most of the $120,000 cost so that it could proceed.

The recount confirmed the results of the election, and Gietzen then filed a lawsuit seeking a statewide hand recount, but a judge dismissed it.

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