Topeka ? House members rewrote a bill Wednesday regulating abortion clinics so that it would apply to dozens of other clinics and doctors’ offices, handing the state’s largest anti-abortion group a major defeat.

The bill split anti-abortion activists and legislators. Kansans for Life, the state’s largest anti-abortion group, wanted the measure to apply only to the state’s five abortion clinics, while another organization, Right to Life of Kansas, managed to sway enough legislators to vote for a broader bill.

The House voted 66-56 to rewrite the bill, then advanced it to final action on a voice vote. Under the measure, the health department would conduct regular, random inspections of offices and clinics performing surgery that requires general anesthesia or heavy sedation.

Gov. Kathleen Sebelius vetoed bills singling out abortion clinics in 2003 and 2005, and a few anti-abortion legislators said a bill that included other clinics would at least stand a chance of becoming law. State officials believe between 250 and 300 offices and clinics perform some surgical procedures.

“I’m tired of beating my head against the wall,” said Rep. Jan Pauls, D-Hutchinson, who opposes abortion. “I do want to have regulation of clinics.”

But other abortion opponents said ending a pregnancy shouldn’t be treated like other procedures.

Rep. Brenda Landwehr said she knew abortion traumatized women because “I am one of those women.”

Later, she declined in an interview to discuss the details, but said she wanted colleagues to know she was speaking from personal experience.

“I live with that pain every single day because I killed a baby,” Landwehr, R-Wichita, said in a speech that stilled the House, breaking down as she spoke.

The House expects to take final action on the bill today, when passage would send it to the Senate.

Last year, Sebelius advocated stronger state regulation of all major procedures performed outside hospitals, rather than targeting abortion.

Less than two weeks ago, the State Board of Healing Arts, which regulates doctors, approved new regulations covering all clinics and offices, though the rules don’t mandate regular, random inspections.

Before Wednesday’s House debate, Right to Life issued a statement – which Pauls distributed – asking legislators to rewrite the bill. The group complained that singling out abortion clinics would give “official, legal recognition” to each clinic as “an abortion center.”

Supporters of a broader bill faced questions about how much the new regulation would cost the state. An early estimate was $2 million a year, though supporters said today it would cost only $200,000.

A broad bill also could face problems in the Senate, where key members said they didn’t see a major shift in opinion. Last year, 27 of 40 senators supported the narrow bill Sebelius vetoed.