Posted by
Jason on Monday, September 24, 2007 4:37:35 PM
It's interesting to me that Sen. Sam Brownback (R-KS) introduces legislation now, in the middle of his campaign for president, that would require doctors to show ultrasound images of a baby before it's aborted. It seems to me he's just trying to curry favor with conservative evangelicals, which his incompetent campaign has thus far only managed to insult, alienate, and malign. If he really had any moral courage on this issue, he would not have waited until three months before the presidential primaries to introduce it. And in reality, this legislation will do little to stem the tide of legal abortion in this country, nor the steady flow of tax dollars that go to the special interest groups who perform them.
The legislation is a palliative in that it's attempting to deal with the peripheral issues surrounding abortion, rather that the faulty court decision that legalized it in the first place. It's also a placebo, designed to trick conservative voters into thinking that Brownback is a couragous, pro-life warrior. Fortunately, it seems like pretty much everyone is able to see through his little facade, as he is still showing at less than 5% in the national polls.
In reality, he's nothing more than a politically-calculating coward.