Gov. Brownback is the keynote speaker at the Closing Banquet at the 2012 National Right to Life Convention.
Sam Brownback was elected the 46th governor of Kansas in 2010. He and Lt. Gov. Jeff Colyer, M.D., are committed to working with Kansas business and community leaders from across the state as well as current and former state legislators to craft Kansas solutions. Their Road Map for Kansas is a detailed plan to Grow the State’s Economy; Excel in Education; Reform State Government; and Protect Kansas Families.In just two legislative sessions he has signed multiple pro-life bills into law, including two-parent consent for abortions for minors, healthcare provider’s conscience protection, abortion clinic licensing, “the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act,” which protects unborn children who have the capability of feeling pain (which substantial medical evidence currently demonstrates to be from at least 20 weeks fertilization) from abortion, and elimination of elective abortion coverage in private health plans. Also during his administration, budget provisos have been enacted to fund pregnancy help centers, prohibit abortion training at the state medical university, and redirect federal Title X funding to public health clinics providing comprehensive care.
Gov. Brownback is best known to pro-lifers nationwide for his stalwart service in Congress, first as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives and then as a United States Senator. In 1994 Sam Brownback was elected to Congress in the Republican Revolution that brought the first Republican-controlled House of Representatives to Washington since Dwight D. Eisenhower was president. Two years later Kansans elected Mr. Brownback to the U.S. Senate seat once held by Bob Dole. Sen. Brownback was always an effective advocate for Kansas interests. Having pledged to serve only two full terms, he did not seek re-election to a third term in 2010.
National Right to Life is grateful to Gov. Brownback for his pro-life efforts while he was in the U.S. Congress. During the first two years of the Clinton administration, 1993 and 1994, pro-lifers were under siege as never before. Mr. Brownback joined in the first big fight, in 1995, the epic battle to ban partial-birth abortions. Over the next few years, his involvement in pro-life issues increased, especially after he moved to the Senate in the 1996 special election. During the ensuing 14 years, there was not a single important fight on a pro-life issue in which Sen. Brownback did not play a key role, whether pro-lifers were on defense or offense.
Gov. Brownback believed deeply then as he does now that we must confirm judges who will interpret the law and not legislate from the bench.
He is married to Mary Brownback and they have five children.
Gov. Sam Brownback is the honored guest speaker at the convention closing Banquet on Saturday, “We The People … Defending Life!”