Catholics Reject Rudy on Abortion

Leticia takes a couple of conservative Catholic pundits (who should know better) to task for settling for Rudy, and she gets in a good plug for Brownback, as well:

The other night, Laura Ingraham and Kate O'Beirne, (author of "Women Who Make the World Worse" and frequent guest on "The World Over" on EWTN) conservative pundits for whom I have a lot of respect, sorely disappointed me when they agreed on her radio program that conservatives will just have to settle for Rudy, despite his pro-death opinions, oh, wait . . . he's coming around on Partial-Birth infanticide. . . Laura said we should be happy he's converting on that issue. Puuuuleeeeze!

Be happy he's starting to back off the slaughter of the nearly-born in an election year?! Just who is she kidding?! Convert, my foot, there are no converts in election years, only slippery politicians! Rudy has half of the Republicans thinking he's pro-life, however the more saavy Republican bloggers are on to him, and support Sam Brownback. Do your homework, people!

Thank Heavens, it seems that faithful Catholics have no such illusions about Rudy. I like what he accomplished in New York too, it is a much safer place, but he doesn't have any type of moral authority. In fact, the ladies accurately pointed out that, of the leading Republican candidates, the Mormon Romney was married the fewest times!

We can do better than Guiliani. We can support Sam Brownback for president. He was out in front as a pro-life leader before the national spotlight was on him as a presidential candidate. He supports human rights across the board, whether, the unborn, the elderly infirm, the disabled (here he is at the Blogs for Life Conference with my daughter). He has fought against the international trafficking of humans, and was among the first to raise his voice for the suffering in Sudan and Darfur, again, BEFORE it was the thing to do. See my letter to the editor of the National Catholic Register this week, as well as the support voiced by the newspaper's editor, Fr. Owen Kearns.

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Here's the text of Leticia's letter to the editor of the National Catholic Register:

As a participant in this year’s March for Life, as well as the Bloggers for Life Conference that day, I can confirm the high visibility of Sam Brownback supporters at the march (“Braving 2 Kinds of Cold,” Jan. 28). I can also tell you why.

A pro-life leader in the Senate since he won Bob Dole’s seat from a pro-abortion governor’s appointee in 1996, Sen. Brownback has sponsored such landmark bills as the Fetal Pain Awareness Act, which he recently re-introduced, and a failed bill that would have offered updated information on disabilities to mothers expecting a child with a disability. He pointed out at the march that unborn Down syndrome babies are aborted at a rate of 80%, yet there are waiting lists of parents to adopt them. He pleaded with mothers expecting a child with Down syndrome not to abort them. He explained that he and his wife have adopted their fifth child, a girl in third grade born to a selfless mother in China who gave her life. These comments brought on some of the most enthusiastic cheers at the march, as the crowd of 127,000 knew of his sincere dedication to the pro-life cause.

Sen. Brownback has been a Catholic since 2002. He came into the Church after reading the works of Pope John Paul II and Blessed Mother Teresa, for whom he obtained the Congressional Medal of Freedom, America’s highest honor. His public stands against human trafficking worldwide and for the desperate situation in the Sudan, along with his willingness to work with senators across the aisle, have shown him to be a man who puts the Church’s social teaching first, his political career second.

Sam Brownback has a sense of mission in his political career due to a bout with cancer. He is a man of the highest integrity who rightly deserves the support of Catholics and pro-lifers of all denominations in his bid for the presidency.