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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...

Sam Brownback is the cover story for the May 11, 2007 issue of National Catholic Reporter : WASHINGTON (National Catholic Reporter) – Sam Brownback, the two-term conservative Kansas senator and recent Catholic convert who wants to be president, is unconventional enough to be interesting, senior enough to be considered seriously, and substantive enough to have a message that could resonate in the Iowa presidential caucuses. But beyond the challenges of name recognition, fundraising and organization – no small hurdles even for the so-called top-tier candidates in the Republican field – Brownback’s got a bigger problem, one that he readily pinpoints: he is trying to convince the electorate that a social conservative, shaped and tempered by a decidedly Catholic ethos, can be a political winner. First, the message The “protection of innocent human life,” he told National Catholic Reporter in late April from his Senate office, “is a moral absolute. It is not one of those issues that falls to...

After successful rallies in Washington, DC, Boston, and Ohio, Students for Brownback will be hosting another rally in Kansas. The rally will take place this Saturday, May 5th at Benedictine College. Please contact Joey Orrino at JosephOrrino@gmail.com for more information. Via Students for Brownback.

"I believe that I will live to see the end of the abortion industry, and the sanctity and dignity of every human life affirmed. ... Great labors remain before us, but the rights and lives of unborn children are absolutely worth our efforts." ~ Senator Sam Brownback, Kansas, Presidential Candidate for the 2008 election