Obama and Abortion

Did you know that Barrack Osama (oops, sorry i meant Obama ;-) is one of the most extreme pro-abortion candidates ever to seek the Presidential Office of the United States?

According to articles like this (http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/viewarticle.php?selectedarticle=2008.10.14_George_Robert_Obama's%20Abortion%20Extremism_.xml) and videos like this one (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfL_H7zg1QI&feature=related), Obama is NOT only pro-abortion, but he is pro-infanticide too. This means that if a baby were to survive a late-term abortion, he believes that he/she should be left outside to die. In 2002, he voted AGAINST the Induced Infant Liability Act, which would have protected babies like these. As an Illinois legislator, he also voted against a bill that would give babies who survived abortions the same rights as other babies.

He is extreme because he is not only pro-choice (which could be defined as supporting the right of a woman to choose abortion in certain circumstances but also respecting pro-life Americans not to fund abortions with their tax dollars or to implicate themselves in other feticides), but pro-abortion in all its forms.

"Just for the sake of argument, though, let us assume that there could be a morally meaningful distinction between being "pro-abortion" and being "pro-choice." Who would qualify for the latter description? Barack Obama certainly would not. For, unlike his running mate Joe Biden, Obama does not think that abortion is a purely private choice that public authority should refrain from getting involved in. Now, Senator Biden is hardly pro-life. He believes that the killing of the unborn should be legally permitted and relatively unencumbered. But unlike Obama, at least Biden has sometimes opposed using taxpayer dollars to fund abortion, thereby leaving Americans free to choose not to implicate themselves in it. If we stretch things to create a meaningful category called "pro-choice," then Biden might be a plausible candidate for the label; at least on occasions when he respects your choice or mine not to facilitate deliberate feticide.

The same cannot be said for Barack Obama. For starters, he supports legislation that would repeal the Hyde Amendment, which protects pro-life citizens from having to pay for abortions that are not necessary to save the life of the mother and are not the result of rape or incest. The abortion industry laments that this longstanding federal law, according to the pro-abortion group NARAL, "forces about half the women who would otherwise have abortions to carry unintended pregnancies to term and bear children against their wishes instead." In other words, a whole lot of people who are alive today would have been exterminated in utero were it not for the Hyde Amendment. Obama has promised to reverse the situation so that abortions that the industry complains are not happening (because the federal government is not subsidizing them) would happen. That is why people who profit from abortion love Obama even more than they do his running mate.

But this barely scratches the surface of Obama's extremism. He has promised that "the first thing I'd do as President is sign the Freedom of Choice Act" (known as FOCA). This proposed legislation would create a federally guaranteed "fundamental right" to abortion through all nine months of pregnancy, including, as Cardinal Justin Rigali of Philadelphia has noted in a statement condemning the proposed Act, "a right to abort a fully developed child in the final weeks for undefined 'health' reasons." In essence, FOCA would abolish virtually every existing state and federal limitation on abortion, including parental consent and notification laws for minors, state and federal funding restrictions on abortion, and conscience protections for pro-life citizens working in the health-care industry-protections against being forced to participate in the practice of abortion or else lose their jobs. The pro-abortion National Organization for Women has proclaimed with approval that FOCA would "sweep away hundreds of anti-abortion laws [and] policies." (Robert George, The Witherspoon Institute)

In this video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDX52pEC7_w&feature=related) Jill Stanek talks about Barrack Obama's reaction during her testimony about how as a nurse, she witnessed many babies who were born alive and then left to die. He was unmoved, and even later opposed the Born Alive Infant Protection Act. For your info, on a federal level, EVERY Democrat in the U.S. Senate has supported this Act (including Clinton, Kerry, Kennedy, Boxer, etc) and even the hard-core pro-abortion group NARAL didn't oppose it. BUT Obama was the only one who voted against it!

In speeches like this one (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0faPpO0CaY), Obama - in the same breath that he uses to describe his own daughters as "miracles" - implies that having a baby would be akin to being punished.

If you don't know what late-term abortion is, watch these:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THS2zZ4m260&feature=related (The Silent Scream)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCVVXbAOSko (Killing Girls Documentary)


By the way, Barrack Obama himself was born as a result of a teenage pregnancy. By his own measure, then, does he consider himself as a "punishment" to his own mother?