Brownback, Sudanese for WTF?

Try to ignore that George Clooney and Barak Obama are in this photo. It's hard, I know, but just try anyway. That rabbity-looking guy sliding off the left side of the photo? That's Senator Sam Brownback.

Brownback is perhaps the most outspoken member of Congress when it comes to demanding an end to the Genocide in Darfur. Indeed, Brownback has been involved in Sudan for years, before the genocide and during Sudan's 20+ year civil war.

He's sponsored and pushed numerous Peace Acts over the years. True to his morals, he's divested his personal finances from any company doing business in Sudan.

And then, today, this: Brownback Questions Abortion For Rape Victims

Rape is terrible. Rape is awful. Is it made any better by killing an innocent child? Does it solve the problem for the woman that’s been raped?

I should not be surprised at this statement. After all, Brownback is the poster-child for conservative Christianity. No gays, no evolution and for god's sake, no stem cell research.

However, for a man who's visited Sudanese refugee camps to then question abortion, it makes me wonder what exactly he saw while he was there.

Did he see the massive starvation of children?

The mutilation and disfigurement of the victims?

The denial of prenatal care? The denial of health care?
Did he even question the lives these children of rape face, the menacing retribution in their future?

Or do these not matter because he was talking specifically about American women?

In Sudan, boys are also raped by gangs. But as there is no living reminder, these crimes are ignored. Would Brownback like to draft a new law punishing male survivors of rape for engaging in homosexual activities?

It's not the hypocrisy that bothers me so much as the absolute lack of compassion from a man who claims to want to end human suffering.

~Lila Schow
Because Responsible Citizens Clean Up After Their Government http://goodusgov.org/