Brownback to drop out

From Lifenews:

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- One of the strongest pro-life candidates will leave the race for the Republican nomination for president on Friday. Kansas senator Sam Brownback, who many pro-life advocates favored but who never could rise up out of the back end of the polls, said he would quit the race after reporting fundraising problems.

Brownback had a sterling pro-life record as a member of the Senate and was the key sponsor of pro-life bills to ban human cloning and help limit the number of abortions.

He finished third in the August pre-caucus event in Iowa but that was considered a bust in some circles because fellow pro-life candidate Mike Huckabee spent less on the event and came in second.

With Brownback's departure, a scramble will begin for the many pro-life activists in the leading primary states who had signed on to his campaign.

His withdrawal could help focus pro-life efforts to make sure pro-abortion former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani doesn't secure the GOP nod next year.