KANSAS CITY, KAN. ? A physician who formerly operated an abortion clinic in Kansas City, Kan., plans to appeal the state’s revocation of his medical license.

The Kansas Board of Healing Arts, voted unanimously last week to revoke Dr. Krishna Rajanna’s license, which had already been suspended indefinitely.

On Thursday, Rajanna said he would appeal the license revocation.

Earlier this year, his case became the focus of a legislative debate over regulating abortion clinics.

A state inspector who made two surprise visits to Rajanna’s clinic in March reported that it was unclean.

The report said that the doctor and his staff kept syringes of medication in an unlocked refrigerator and that a dead mouse was found in the hallway.

Rajanna protested that he had not been given an opportunity to meet with the inspector to correct deficiencies, and said he had no complaints from a patient during 10 years of performing abortions in Kansas City.

Members of the state Board of Healing Arts found that Rajanna’s clinic represented a danger and said that as a doctor, he shouldn’t have needed the board’s prodding to keep a clinic clean and safe.