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Former Kansas AG Phill Kline to Speak at NRLC 2007.(attorney general; National Right to Life Committee)

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Mention the name Phill Kline to any pro-lifer in Kansas or Missouri, and the reaction would likely mirror Mary Kay Culp's. Culp, executive director of Kansans for Life, told NRL News that the former Kansas Attorney General "is someone who 'gets it.' He not only understands that abortion is brutal, he can also explain this in a way that changes hearts and minds."

Kline, who became attorney general for Johnson County after losing a re-election bid in 2006, will speak at NRLC 2007. This three-day educational extravaganza will take place June 1416 in Kansas City. (For details on how to register, see the end of this article and pages 1415.)

Kline was the object of a ferocious, sustained, and ultimately successful attack by the major newspapers in Kansas. His "crimes" were to try to enforce the state's restrictions on late-term abortion and Kansas's long-standing statutory rape law.

He told PBS's David Brancaccio last year, "My motivation is to enforce the law. And the law in Kansas says that when you have a ten-year-old who is pregnant, the child has been raped." Planned Parenthood vigorously opposed his efforts, saying they would interfere with patient confidentiality.

The major media in Kansas agreed and Kline came under a withering ...

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