Gov.
Sam Brownback took a defiant wait and see attitude Friday in the wake
of federal court rulings in Oklahoma and Utah striking down state
constitutional amendments prohibiting same-sex "marriage."
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judge has ruled that a brain-dead pregnant woman in Texas must be taken
off life support by 5 p.m. Monday. Marlise Munoz, 33, who is believed
to be about 22 weeks pregnant, "is deceased" according to the ruling
judge.
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Were there to be no support in the whole history of ethical and moral thought, were there no acknowledged confirmation from medical science, were the history of legal opinion to the contrary, we would still have to conclude on the basis of God's Holy Word that the unborn child is a person in the sight of God. He is protected by the sanctity of life graciously given to each individual by the Creator, Who alone places His image upon man and grants them any right to life which they have.