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1. CJOnline.com | The Topeka Capital-Journal | A.G. race features clear split on abortion issue 10/31/02
www.cjonline.com/stories/10310 - [Cached]Published on: 10/31/2002 Last Visited: 10/31/2002
Carla Mahany, Kansas public affairs director of PPA, agreed that the personal feelings of an attorney general on an issue such as abortion can affect the outcome of an election and the way in which the law is enforced.
"Clearly the attorney general's office does have not only enforcement, but also interpretive responsibilities," Mahany said. "That's one of the areas of the office that we're very interested in."
She said an attorney general can issue an opinion on the meaning of a new law or even on an old law on which previous attorneys general have issued differing opinions.
"Mr. Kline has said that he will, and is looking forward to reinterpreting some of those attorney general's opinions, especially the ones having to do with the so-called partial-birth abortion statute, and would like to limit that and late-term procedures," Mahany said.
An attorney general could even harass an abortion clinic or other medical provider, using consumer protection laws, she said.
"Under the guise of consumer protection there are other ways that an attorney general could investigate and possibly trump up issues to allege against abortion providers or providers of reproductive health," Mahany said.
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"I would not be at all surprised to see some of the same tactics used by the Kline campaign that they and others used in the primary, which was phone calls either of their own doing or from other organizations that raise this issue in as divisive a way as possible in the latter days of the campaign and raise it in printed material that is distributed to voters," Mahany said.
She declined to say whether her organization had given any money to the Biggs campaign, but said advocates are encouraged to work on phone banks and provide other kinds of support for candidates.
