Nixon declines to bow out as lawyer<br> in Planned Parenthood case</br>

Wednesday, August 22, 2007 | 7:57 p.m. CDT; updated 8:40 a.m. CDT, Tuesday, July 22, 2008

JEFFERSON CITY — Health Department Director Jane Drummond announced Wednesday the department would use an outside lawyer, rather than the attorney general, in a Planned Parenthood lawsuit challenging the state’s latest abortion-restriction law.

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