Wichita, KS (LifeNews.com) -- A leading pro-life group learned that a University of Kansas professor was helping late-term abortion practitioner George Tiller. Burtram Odenheimer, a Clinical Assistant Professor with the University of Kansas School of Medicine, was now signing off on second and third-trimester abortions.

However, just hours after Operation Rescue told LifeNews.com about the scandal and a story appeared online, Odenheimer and another physician agreed to disassociate themselves with Tiller.

Tiller is the infamous late-term abortion practitioner who has repeatedly escaped prosecution for allegedly illegal abortions that are done outside of Kansas law.

State law requires two physicians to sign off on the supposed need for a late-term abortion and Tiller had apparently violated the law by having a business partner vouch for them rather than obtaining an independent analysis from another doctor.

Operation Rescue told LifeNews.com that Odenheimer was providing the second opinion needed for the abortions to qualify under state law.

The group says Odenheimer, a neurologist who is board certified in psychiatry, secretly saw Tiller's patients at his office at the Wichita Clinic, a non-abortion medical center at located at 3311 E. Murdock in Wichita.

Operation Rescue president Troy Newman told LifeNews.com on Monday that, "Odenheimer and others are working secretly with Tiller because they do not want the community to know that they are associated with his disreputable late-term abortion practice."

Late Monday, Newman told LifeNews.com that his group received notice from the Wichita Clinic that it had no knowledge about the abortion participation.

It also confirmed that both Odenheimer and the other physician had been providing the second opinions and that both agreed to stop.

"We have the utmost respect for the Wichita Clinic and the way they have handled this situation," Newman said.

"As soon as they became aware that their clinic was being secretly used to enable late abortions, they took care of it immediately," he added. "We wish to publicly thank them for their quick action, and commitment to life-affirming medicine."

Newman said numerous people communicated with the Wichita Clinic following the group's alert and the LifeNews.com story.

"We understand that many people communicated with the Wichita Clinic this morning, expressing their dismay with the Clinic's association with Tiller. We want to thank each and every one of them who took the time to voice their concern," he said.

"This incident underscores the fact that the community does not support Tiller's abortion business, and take it very seriously when others engage in actions that help him continue take the innocent lives of the pre-born," he concluded.

Kansas law requires that an unaffiliated physician must concur with the abortionist that a post-viability abortion is necessary to prevent "substantial and irreversible impairment of a major bodily function" of the mother.

Tiller currently uses the mental health loophole supposedly implied in the law as an excuse to abort late-term babies up until the day before birth.

ACTION: Contact the following to voice your objections to the late-term abortion partnership:

Wichita Clinic
Board President Jerry E. Niernberger
Phone: (316) 609-4531; Fax: (316) 636-1540
E-Mail: shapedown@wichitaclinic.com
(Put "Attn. Dr. Niernberger" in the subject line.)

Burt Odenheimer, MD
Phone: 800-876-5111
E-Mail: shapedown@wichitaclinic.com
(Put "Attn. Dr. Odenheimer" in the subject line.)

You can also contact the University of Kansas to protest one of its faculty assisting with late-term abortions by going here.

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