Yesterday's GOP Debate More Lively and Eye-Opening
I watched this second debate with an open mind, respecting the candidates, and hoping that this time they would show us more of who they really are and I wasn't disappointed. This debate proved more lively than the first one. Some of the details of the issues that came out in this debate surprised me. One 0f those surprises occurred when Sen. Sam Brownback of Kansas, who has made his pro-life views a central theme of his campaign, admitted to an exception to abortion "for the life of the mother." He did, however, tackle a tough question on abortion very well. When asked why a woman who was raped should not have an abortion, he responded, "That would be a very difficult situation....But the basic question remains: Is the child in the womb a person? Is it a viable life? And if it is a person, it's entitled to respect.... It's a terrible situation, where there's a rape involved or incest. But it nonetheless remains that this is a child that we're talking...