Sam Brownback: “I agree, innocent lives should not be killed. We should be looking at every possible degree of evidence we possibly can.…”

“I agree, innocent lives should not be killed. We should be looking at every possible degree of evidence we possibly can. I wonder if we could also consider all the young, innocent lives that are killed at the same time, and somehow put together a blue ribbon commission to determine when life begins, and say we are not going to allow that to take place anymore, either. I was just calculating. Across the country, we have every year about 1.2 million abortions that take place. So today there have been over 3,000 abortions. I agree that innocent life should not be killed and we should do everything we possibly can to review that evidence, look at DNA evidence, anything we can. We should remove any sort of barriers to time limits on tests for DNA evidence. That is an important and good thing we should do. But can't we also consider at the same time, when does that innocent life begin? I think those are valid points that we should both pause and consider at this time.”