KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – A newspaper is reporting that two sitting Sedgwick County judges contributed to the state’s leading anti-abortion political action committee after hearing abortion
cases.

The campaign finance disclosure statement for the Kansans for Life PAC shows that Judges Eric Yost and Jeffrey Goering each contributed $100 in 2011. Goering issued a temporary order in January 2011 prohibiting a Wichita doctor from using her office for abortions because her landlord believed it would create a nuisance.

Yost, meanwhile, was involved in the long-running legal dispute between former Kansas attorney general Phill Kline and slain late-term abortion provider George Tiller.

Both judges said the donations were appropriate; no state laws or regulations bar them. But some legal scholars said they create the appearance of a conflict of interest.