If anything, Archbishop Naumann understated the state’s notoriety. Incredible as it may seem, Kansas has emerged as the late-term abortion capital of the world.  This is no exaggeration.  Indeed, in 2007 more than 90 percent of the late-term abortions in Kansas were performed on women from out of state. In the past two years alone, women have come from 48 states and many points beyond to have abortions in Kansas.

The state’s most efficient practitioner of this dubious art, Dr, George Tiller of Wichita, has boasted on his website of having “more experience in late abortion services with fetuses over 24 weeks than anywhere else in the Western Hemisphere, more than 60,000 since 1973.”  He has also claimed, with some accuracy, "I am the outpatient abortion provider of the last resort in the United States, the Western Hemisphere and Australia.”

The contribution of Comprehensive Health of Planned Parenthood of Kansas & Mid-Missouri to the late-term total cannot match that of Tiller’s Women's Health Services, but that it contributes at all may come as a surprise to Planned Parenthood’s supporters in the affluent Kansas City suburb of Overland Park.  Local CEO Peter Brownlie has repeatedly said that Planned Parenthood did not perform any abortions past the 22^nd week of pregnancy, the legal definition of “late-term.”

Most Kansans remain in the dark about the state’s questionable celebrity for the simple reason that the media throughout the state, and especially in the Kansas City area, have chosen not to enlighten them. Thus, the scolding of Sebelius had to have come as a surprise to many, Catholics included.  From what they had been told, the “moderate” Democrat Sebelius—there are no liberals in Kansas-- was the best thing to happen to the state since ethanol.

Indeed, the handsome, 60 year-old has become something of a political centerfold for the national Democratic Party. Vogue Magazine did a recent feature of the governor in designer gowns.  Time Magazine named Sebelius one of America’s five best governors. The Democrats tapped her to give the party’s response to the president’s most recent state of the union speech, and Barack Obama, so rumor has it, may choose her as his would-be VP.

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