Sam Brownback: “I want to talk in the brief period of time that I have about the soul of a nation, the soul of our Nation and what…”

“I want to talk in the brief period of time that I have about the soul of a nation, the soul of our Nation and what happens to it when, once pierced with consciousness that this procedure goes on, allows it to continue to go on. Government-sanctioned brutality presently exists in America in the form of partial-birth abortion. We know that now. The cold mechanics of partial-birth abortion involve the near delivery of a late-term infant to facilitate the extraction of the child's brains. This procedure will be performed several times this month throughout our Nation, and we know that, and we know that we sanction that as a State-sanctioned form of death. I speak today of deep concern for the soul of our Nation which is permitting these defiling acts to continue with our consent. Why do otherwise decent nations permit their young to be ripped apart? Why do they permit the shameless repeated acts of cruelty against their weakest and most vulnerable? People of conscience must intervene now.”