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Kansas: Morrison says no wrongdoing found at Planned Parenthood clinic

When he left the attorney general’s office, Kline became district attorney in Johnson County, where Planned Parenthood’s clinic is located. After Kline got the county job, abortion rights supporters suggested he would continue investigating.

Kline declined to comment on whether he is investigating.

However, Morrison ended his letter by noting that Kline, three days before he left the attorney general’s office, forwarded copies of edited patient records to the district attorney’s office.

“Of course, be advised that Mr. Kline retains a copy of those records,” Morrison wrote.

While he said Kline has been “zealously pursuing an agenda for many years,” Brownlie said Planned Parenthood has not heard anything from the district attorney’s office.

“I certainly expect and hope that the letter from Mr. Morrison, as clear and unambiguous as it is, will deter Mr. Kline,” Brownlie said.

Abortion opponents don’t trust Morrison to investigate potential wrongdoing by abortion clinics because of abortion rights supporters’ political activities against Kline last year. ProKanDo, a PAC formed by Tiller, spent more than $650,000 in 2005 and 2006, some to help finance anti-Kline mailings and some on polls and phone banks.

Mary Kay Culp, executive director of Kansans for Life, the state’s largest anti-abortion group, saw the announcement about Planned Parenthood as significant because, “It’s probably a harbinger of what’s to come with Dr. Tiller.”

She called Planned Parenthood “another satisfied customer” for Morrison.

“The whole problem is that we have no way of knowing if this is legitimate or not because no one in a position to judge or comment has seen the records, except for Mr. Morrison,” she said.

Julie Burkhart, a lobbyist for ProKanDo and spokeswoman for Tiller, said she was “pleasantly surprised” by the news about Planned Parenthood, but she can’t predict whether it means the same outcome for Tiller and his clinic.

“One can hope,” she said.



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