Every candidate who gets the NYTimes to cover the full pro-life spectrum is a good one to have in the running:

“I am pro-life and whole life,” Mr. Brownback said Saturday, explaining that that meant fighting for the unborn but also for “the child in Darfur” and “people that are being trafficked out of North Korea.” He traces his interest in humanitarian causes to a cancer scare in the mid-1990s, when he was a member of the House of Representatives. With the prognosis uncertain, he said he awoke in the middle of the night tormented about his life’s direction. Concluding that he was too consumed with worldly ambition, he said he crumpled his résumé into a ball and threw it away. “To me, it was a very symbolic moment,” Mr. Brownback said in an interview. “That this is not what my life’s about.” He pored over biographies of William Wilberforce, a 19th-century evangelical British parliamentarian who worked to end slavery in the British Empire and is a modern-day hero to many conservative Christians. Soon he was making the first of many trips to Africa.