Saturday, June 16, 2007

Kansas Senator Sam Brownback Speaks at National Right to Life Convention

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Richard L Zorek.........06.17.07............Kansas Senator Sam Brownback spoke at the National Right to Life Convention in Kansaa City on June 15. "Abortion in America is the greatest moral crisis of our day," he said. He said that as many as 90 percent of fetuses diagnosed with Downs Syndrome are aborted. "America is poorer for this. We are at our best when we help the weakest. To kill them makes us all the poorer." He added, "We will not stop until we're done winning the contentious decades long fight over the issue."

Mitt Romney Speaks at National Right to Life Convention in Kansas City

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Richard L Zorek
.........06.16.07............Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney told a crowd of anti-abortion activists in Kansas City that his previous abortion rights position was wrong. "I was wrong," said the former Massachusetts Governor. "I proudly follow a long line of converts: George Herbert Walker Bush, Ronald Reagan, and (former Senator) Henry Hyde," he said of other politicians who had switched from favoring abortion rights to opposing them. "I'm evidecne that your work, your relentless campaign to promote the sanctitiy of human life bears fruit."