Topeka ? Dr. George Tiller has been subpoenaed by Texas authorities in connection with a woman who had received services at his abortion clinic and later died, Kansas Atty. Gen. Phill Kline said Tuesday.

The Texas attorney general’s office issued the subpoena naming Tiller as a material witness, officials said.

Kline said the 19-year-old woman was developmentally disabled and that the Texas attorney general’s office was investigating her death. His comments came at a news conference he called about the case.

But Ben Taylor, a spokesman for Texas Atty. Gen. Greg Abbott, said Texas authorities weren’t investigating the woman’s death.

“Our investigation centers on events that may have happened in Texas,” Taylor said.

Daniel Monnat, a Wichita attorney representing Tiller, issued a statement that Tiller “received a routine subpoena from the state of Texas for the examination of medical records and items related to an investigation in Texas which is not directed at Dr. Tiller.

“Other medical facilities in Wichita have received similar subpoenas from the state of Texas in this investigation.”

Monnat said Tiller would comply with the subpoena and saw no reason for Tiller to be required to appear in court regarding the records.

Monnat’s written statement did not address Kline’s comments. Julie Burkhart, a spokeswoman for Tiller’s Women’s Health Care Services in Wichita, also declined to respond to Kline’s news conference.

Later, after the Texas attorney general’s office said it wasn’t looking into the woman’s death, Kline, who opposes abortion, said he may have misspoken.

“It probably could have been worded more delicately,” he said.

The issue over the woman’s death erupted on Monday after Kansans for Life, the state’s largest anti-abortion group, revealed correspondence between Gov. Kathleen Sebelius and the Kansas Board of Healing Arts.

The letters confirmed that an investigation by the Healing Arts Board was under way into the death of a woman at Tiller’s clinic around Jan. 13.

Sebelius also asked the board to determine whether the death could have been prevented had she not vetoed a bill that would have set up safety standards at clinics. She vetoed the bill in 2003, saying the health care facilities were already subject to high standards.