Topeka ? Atty. Gen. Phill Kline may have involved himself in a way he didn’t anticipate when he filed a lawsuit seeking to force the state to stop financing abortions for Medicaid recipients, an attorney representing Gov. Kathleen Sebelius said Monday.

That’s because Kline administers the Crime Victims Reparations Board, which also could administer funding for abortions if a rape victim sought to recover medical costs for the procedure.

Neither Sebelius, a Democrat who supports abortion rights, nor Kline, an anti-abortion Republican, were in Shawnee County District Court on Monday when Overland Park attorney Nick Badgerow sought to persuade Shawnee County District Court Judge David Bruns to dismiss the lawsuit. Bruns did not immediately rule on the matter.