Sam Brownback: “I oppose partial-birth abortions. These latest facts which have now come to light show that the defense of this…”

“I oppose partial-birth abortions. These latest facts which have now come to light show that the defense of this indefensible procedure has been built on some outright lies. Yesterday, Wednesday, February 26, in the New York Times, there was a story that ran on page A-11, detailing the admissions of Ron Fitzsimmons, the executive director of the National Coalition of Abortion Providers. In the course of that article, and in another published in the American Medical News dated March 3, Mr. Fitzsimmons admits to lying, ``through [his] teeth,'' during his defense of partial-birth abortions, when he said that the procedure was used rarely and only on women whose lives were in danger or whose fetuses were damaged. ``It made me physically ill'' to make these statements, he said. ``I told my wife the next day, `I can't do this again.' '' The lies he admitted to focus on three major issues about partial-birth abortion, which is a terrible procedure, a late-term child being pulled out, mostly delivered, turned over, and then the abortion performed.”