Wichita ? After a newspaper’s inquiries, Kansas Atty. Gen. Phill Kline reversed the planned hiring of an anti-abortion lawyer for a civil lawsuit filed by health care providers.

Kline did not know of his staff’s plans to hire Ed Zielinski, a spokesman said, and made the decision Friday not to hire him. That followed questions by The Wichita Eagle about Zielinski’s background, after his name appeared on court documents Thursday as one of the state’s attorneys in the case.

Zielinski, of Gainesville, Texas, was the chief lawyer for Life Dynamics from 2001 through March 2004. The group’s motto is “Pro-Life, without compromise, without exception, without apology.”

The group’s Web site also recruits women to sue abortion providers for malpractice, and Life Dynamics also asks supporters to provide “any dirt that you can dig up about any abortionist, abortion clinic, clinic employee or hospital that allows abortions.”

Kline felt hiring Zielinski would have unnecessarily shifted the focus of the case, spokesman Whitney Watson told The Eagle.

“It’s not an abortion case, it’s a child-abuse case,” Watson said.

Zielinski was informed by an Eagle reporter that he would not be brought in on the Kansas case.

“Sure, that’s fine,” he said. “I go help out where I can.”

The providers sued Sedgwick County Dist. Atty. Nola Foulston in 2003 over Kline’s opinion requiring expanded reporting of sexual activity by minors.