WASHINGTON, January 4, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Republican Senator Sam Brownback sees 2005 as a year for potentially significant advancements in the US pro-life cause. With the addition of four new Republican Senators, and a second term for US President George W. Bush, Brownback predicts victories for social conservatives on such issues as embryonic stem cell research, abortion and same-sex “marriage,” among other things.
Brownback was elected to the Senate Judiciary committee, along with newly-elected socially conservative Senator Tom Coburn (R-Okla), allowing them the opportunity to select new Supreme Court justices—likely necessary within the next two years. Brownback predicts that his Unborn Child Pain Awareness Act will pass Congress this year—a law that would mandate that abortionists inform women that the procedure can cause pain for their unborn babies 20 weeks or older, requiring that they also offer anesthesia for the child.
Brownback told the Wichita Eagle that the so-called separation of church and state argument foisted by pro-abortion foes is “profoundly misinterpreted. The separation is that the state would not establish one religion, not a removal of religion from public life,” he argued.
With files from Wichita Eagle. tv