Topeka, KS (LifeNews.com) -- Pro-life advocates in Kansas are cautious and worried about the person Governor Kathleen Sebelius may pick to replace outgoing Attorney General Paul Morrison. Morrison resigned last week after allegations that he had an affair with a subordinate and asked her to give him information on an abortion center investigation.

Sebelius doesn't have the trust of pro-life groups in the state because she is an abortion advocate and because she, Morrison and others have benefited from hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign donations from late-term abortion practitioner George Tiller.

Tiller currently is facing criminal prosecution by the Attorney General's office on 19 counts of illegal late-term abortions.

Pro-life groups are concerned that another pro-abortion attorney may drop those charges or not vigorously hold Tiller accountable for potentially illegal abortions.

Under the Kansas Constitution, Sebelius has the power to appoint someone to serve for the remaining three years of Morrison's term and the Democratic governor may appoint a replacement form either party.

“I just don’t think she’ll pick anybody who will make Dr. Tiller unhappy,” Mary Kay Culp, executive director of Kansans for Life, told the Associated Press.

Sebelius spokeswoman Nicole Corcoran said Tuesday that the governor has not yet narrowed her list of possible appointees.

Securities Commissioner Chris Biggs is one of the handful of top names media reports and political observers are mentioning as a likely replacement, but pro-life groups oppose Biggs as the state's top attorney.

Biggs lost to Phill Kline in the 2002 race for attorney general and Kline went on to levy charges against both Tiller and a Planned Parenthood near Kansas City.

During the race, Biggs accepted $2,000 in campaign contributions on the books from Tiller's political action committee, ProKanDo.

But that donation paled in comparison to the almost $250,000 funneled into his campaign through Kansans for Democratic Leadership, a shill group set up by Tiller operatives. The donations were investigated after the election and while, technically, there was no wrongdoing, pro-life advocates say it deceived the public.

"Because of the deceptive nature of the way huge amounts of money was pumped in the Biggs campaign by Tiller, Biggs's integrity and honesty remain under a cloud of suspicion," Operation Rescue president Troy Newman told LifeNews.com.

"Given the fact that Tiller is in the process of a criminal prosecution, it is clear that Biggs, with his shady connections to Tiller, is the wrong man for the job," he added.