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Anti-Abortion Group Revives The Legal Battle Against Kansas Planned Parenthood Clinic | Even though a Planned Parenthood branch in Kansas recently defeated the first-ever criminal prosecution against the women’s health organization, a local anti-abortion group isn’t ready to give up the fight. Last month, Kansas officials dismissed the last of the charges against Planned Parenthood — which consisted of 107 total counts, including 23 felonies alleging the clinic covered up illegal late-term abortions — filed by former Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline (R) in 2007. However, the anti-abortion group Operation Rescue filed an ethics complaint against the state’s current Attorney General Derek Schmidt (R), accusing him of working in collaboration with a district attorney to ensure that the charges against Planned Parenthood’s clinic were dismissed under false pretenses. Operation Rescue’s president claims the two officials destroyed evidence that could have been used to prosecute Planned Parenthood, describing the alleged conspiracy as an “obstruction of justice [that] violates the code of ethics and betrays the trust of the people of Kansas.”