When outgoing Attorney General Phill Kline, an anti-abortion Republican, filed 30 misdemeanor criminal charges in December against Dr. George Tiller, of Wichita, accusing Tiller of performing illegal-late term abortions, the complaint said Tiller had diagnosed some patients with a single episode of major depression.

Tiller’s attorneys have said the charges were without merit, and a judge dismissed them for jurisdictional reasons.

But Pauls said the additional reporting will help lawmakers determine whether the law is being followed.

“That way, we can be sure the law is accurately reflecting what should occur, as opposed to what may be occurring,” Pauls said.

But Julie Burkhart, a lobbyist for the abortion rights group ProKanDo, said the real goal of the provision’s backers is to outlaw abortions for certain medical reasons, particularly mental health.

“We know that this information will be used in a year or two years or three years,” she said. “They will craft a bill and will then seek to further restrict abortion services.”

A second House-passed provision would have required the Board of Healing Arts to certify that the doctors providing second opinions on such late-term abortions have no ties to the abortion providers.

The third would have required SRS to make sure employees report suspected sexual abuse of a child to authorities.

Abortion opponents have long suspected that some doctors who perform abortions for young girls don’t report their pregnancies as evidence of sexual abuse, something Burkhart said isn’t true.