Sen. Sam Brownback fired a shot across the bow at former Gov. Mitt Romney, challenging him to debate and asserting "I'm pro-life. He's not."
Brownback also used the occasion to announce the formation of a new website called Brownback Events featuring the Straw Poll Tour.
Brownback is indeed one of the most consistently pro-life candidates for the Republican Presidential nomiation. The Des Moines Register reports:
The Kansas Republican stumped through Sioux City, Johnston and Des Moines, touting himself as a "bleeding-heart conservative" who would be "pro-life, but whole-life" - viewing genocide in Darfur as just as great a tragedy as abortion.Recent reports have him providing the following answer related to cases in which a child is conceived as a result of rape or incest:"You don't stop" with abortion, Brownback told a crowd of 30 at the Coffee Company in Johnston. A broader culture-of-life stance among anti-abortionists, he said, should include efforts to stop mass murder abroad and other atrocities. "I think it draws people into the pro-life message."
Brownback has campaigned heavily on outlawing abortion, arguing that his belief - against abortions, with exception only for a mother whose life is endangered - leaves him best suited for the GOP's presidential nomination.
"Rape is terrible. Rape is awful," Brownback said to the approximately 500 conference attendees, but then asked, "Is it made any better by killing an innocent child? Does it solve the problem for the mother that's been raped?"According to LifeSiteNews,"We need to protect innocent life. Period."
Brownback, a 2008 presidential hopeful for the GOP, is one of the few politicians who are willing to publicly state a position against making an exception for abortion in the emotionally charged case of women who are victims of rape. Even President Bush, who is self-described as "pro-life," reportedly favors exceptions to abortion laws in three cases, generally assumed to be rape, incest, and the life of the mother.Although leading in the poll,
I support your site and carry its logo on my left sidebar. I am pro life. But I disgusted how the far right, and your site is misrepresenting Giuliani. Did not one of you hear what he said? He said he hates abortion, that it is dispicable, but that the laws allow choice. He said he would NEVER counsel a woman to have an abortion, but would not judge a woman that did abort. He stated this is the law in the nation - choice, and that he did not believe it was the governments right to interfere with choice. Hence, the same thing that Justices Roberts and Alito said regarding the law. And you should know by now that YOU CANNOT REGULATE MORALITY - that is a personal choice.
Giuliani also pointed out how abortions dropped in NY when he was Mayor because he instituted a wonderful program that increased adoptions allowing for abortions to drop in number. Now if you chose to derail Giuliani be armed with the facts and truth - not personal opinions and emotionalism. I am disappointed in peoples denial of truth and reluctance to accept truth. Get your facts straight, in the interim I have lost respect for what you are doing here. It is akin to the pro-abortionists and their leftist lies, no facts, just pure emotionalism. Shame on you here for stooping to the lefts methodology!
I'm pro-life but I see Brownback's views as very intolerant. I realize another well-intended person could form a different opinion on abortion, particularly in the case of rape. Brownback seems a little fanatical to me.
Layla - I engaged one of the other several comments you left elsewhere so will not respond in detail here. It would be beneficial for you to research the "I don't like abortion but believe in choice" position, developed by NY Gov. Mario Cuomo in 1985. As a tactic, it is effective in winning the support of many - I find it unacceptable.