A newspaper is reporting that two sitting Sedgwick County judges contributed to the state’s leading anti-abortion political action committee after hearing abortion cases.

The Kansas City Star reported that the campaign finance disclosure statement for the Kansans for Life PAC shows that Judges Eric Yost and Jeffrey Goering each contributed $100 in 2011.

Goering issued a temporary order in January 2011 prohibiting a Wichita doctor from using her office for abortions because her landlord believed it would create a nuisance.

Yost, meanwhile, was involved in the long-running legal dispute between former Kansas attorney general Phill Kline and slain late-term abortion provider George Tiller.

Both judges said the donations were appropriate; no state laws or regulations bar them. But some legal scholars said they create the appearance of a conflict of interest.