TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — An attorney for a Kansas doctor has told the state’s medical board that it should allow her to regain her license despite finding that she kept inadequate records for young patients she referred for late-term abortions.

Attorney Bob Eye said Thursday that the State Board of Healing Arts has no evidence that any of the patients Dr. Ann Kristin Neuhaus of Nortonville saw for mental health exams in 2003 were injured.

Her exams for 11 patients aged 10 to 18 allowed them to obtain abortions from the late Dr. George Tiller of Wichita.

Board attorney Reese Hays argued Neuhaus has shown she can’t be rehabilitated. The board sanctioned her in 1999 and 2001 over record-keeping issues.

The board plans to issue a written ruling by Jan. 9.

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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas board is considering whether to continue banning a doctor from practicing medicine after scrutinizing her referrals of young patients for late-term abortions and finding that she kept inadequate records.

The State Board of Healing Arts is conducting a hearing Thursday morning in the case of Dr. Ann Kristin Neuhaus of Nortonville.

She successfully challenged a 2012 board ruling that she conducted substandard mental health exams in 2003 for 11 patients aged 10 to 18. Her opinions about patients’ mental problems allowed the late Dr. George Tiller’s clinic in Wichita to terminate their pregnancies.

A Shawnee County District Court judge earlier this year overturned the board’s revocation of Neuhaus’ license but agreed that she kept inadequate records. The judge sent her case back to the board.