WICHITA, Kan. -- An attorney for one of the nation's few late-term abortion providers says Kansas is prosecuting his client for doing something that a state medical board official had supported.
Defense attorney Dan Monnat told jurors in opening statements Monday that a former director of the Kansas Board of Healing Arts suggested that Dr. George Tiller get second opinions for late-term abortions from Dr. Kristen Neuhaus.
Prosecutors say Neuhaus was essentially an employee of Tiller's, not an independent physician as state law requires. Tiller is charged with 19 misdemeanors.
The judge has said he probably will keep out any evidence that the medical board officials and Tiller's attorneys told Tiller that his use of Neuhaus for second opinions was legal.
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