Planned Parenthood and NARAL hail Barack Obama as “100 percent” pro-
choice. But perhaps they should create a special new category for pols
who go above and beyond the call of duty to vote for abortion rights
even when they are not in legislative play.
Barack Obama would deserve a place of honor amongst these 110 percent
pro-choicers, as he sees abortion rights threatened almost everywhere,
including in anti-infanticide bills.
It has now been established that his opposition to the Born Alive
Infants Protection Act rested on an excess of pro-choice zeal, as
evident in the fact that 100 percent pro-choicers such as Hillary
Clinton voted for the Senate bill. That’s the sort of enthusiasm which
should earn Obama the Margaret Sanger Award.
Obama feared that the legislation could cause Roe v. Wade to unravel,
though no such threat existed, since the legislation didn’t pertain to
unborn children.
But no matter: his pro-choice heart was in the right place. Abortion
rights can never be safe enough.
THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY has long made abortion its organizing principle
and came close four years ago to naming an actual Planned Parenthood
doctor (early in his career Howard Dean worked there for a time and
served on its board) its nominee.
Obama is its ideal standard bearer. He’s a candidate who won’t
apologize for voting against an anti-infanticide bill even on
fictitious reasons while apologizing for not doing more to support
activists who wanted Terri Schiavo dead.
Remember that statesman-like moment in one of the Democratic primary
debates? Asked about his biggest mistake in the Senate, he grandly
abased himself by saying: “When I first arrived in the Senate that
first year, we had a situation surrounding Terri Schiavo. And I
remember how we adjourned with a unanimous agreement that eventually
allowed Congress to interject itself into that decision making process
of the families.
“It wasn’t something I was comfortable with, but it was not something
that I stood on the floor and stopped. And I think that was a
mistake…”
The Democrats are the party of socialized medicine — a system which
assumes the right of the state to meddle in the health care decisions
of families — but they would never dream of “interjecting themselves”
into such minor health care matters as abortion and euthanasia.
Obama’s Schiavo apology is worth recalling in light of this current
controversy. Even if one were to put the most generous possible
construction on his maneuverings around the Born Alive Infants
Protection Act — he now claims he would have supported it and favors
health care for babies that survive abortion — his support for
euthanasia establishes that he accepts the principle of denying care
to those outside the womb.
What does it matter if the human is nine months old or 90 years old?
If there are “good” reasons to deny care to the disabled or elderly,
similarly good reasons can be concocted to deny care to babies that
survive abortion.
EXTENDING THE LOGIC of abortion and euthanasia to infanticide is not
very hard, and explains why the Democrats drag their feet on bills
banning it except when immediate political reasons necessitate their
support.
Obama’s casual comment at the Saddleback forum — he dismissed a
question about the beginning of human life as “above his pay grade” —
suggests he doesn’t like to exert himself on the abortion issue. But
he does.
Obama more than earns his pay as a Democrat by advancing pro-abortion
certitudes, based on what he now admits is a doubt that he can’t
bother himself to study up on, and by treating abortion as his first
legislative priority.
“The first thing I’d do as President is sign the Freedom of Choice
Act,” he assured the Planned Parenthood Action Fund in 2007. That Act
would impose an abortion-on-demand regime on every state in the
country, sweeping away all existing regulations.
Nor was coming up with sophistical reasons for opposing the Born Alive
Infants Protection Act — reasons which pro-lifers note Barbara Boxer
couldn’t even bring herself to fake up — above his pay grade.
Should that outlier category for 110 percent pro-choicers ever be
created, a President Obama will no doubt occupy it.
How Racism Works...
What if John McCain were a former president of the Harvard Law Review?
What if Barack Obama finished fifth from the bottom of his graduating
class?
What if McCain were still married to the first woman he said "I do"
to?
What if Obama were the candidate who left his first wife after she no
longer measured up to his standards?
What if Michelle Obama were a wife who not only became addicted to
pain
killers, but acquired them illegally through her charitable
organization?
What if Cindy McCain graduated from Harvard?
What if Obama were a member of the Keating-5?
What if McCain were a charismatic, eloquent speaker?
If these questions reflected reality, do you really believe the
election numbers would be as close as they are?
This is what racism does. It covers up, rationalizes and minimizes
positive qualities in one candidate and em
phasizes negative qualities in another when there is a color
difference.
You are The Boss... which team would you hire?
With America facing historic debt, 2 wars, stumbling health care, a
weakened dollar, all-time high prison population, mortgage crises,
bank
foreclosures, etc.
Educational Background:
Obama:
Columbia University - B.A. Political Science with a Specialization in
International Relations.
Harvard - Juris Doctor (J.D.) Magna Cum Laude
Biden:
University of Delaware - B.A. in History and B.A. in Political
Science.
Syracuse University College of Law - Juris Doctor (J.D.)
vs.
McCain:
United States Naval Academy - Class rank: 894 of 899
Palin:
Hawaii Pacific University - 1 semester
North Idaho College - 2 semesters - general study
University of Idaho - 2 semesters - journalism
Matanuska-Susitna College - 1 semester
University of Idaho - 3 semesters - B.A. in Journalism
Now, which team are you going to hire ?
PS: What if Barack Obama had an unwed, pregnant teenage daughter....
repo wrote:
> http://sigmundcarlandalfred.wordpress.com/2008/08/22/obama-so-pro-choice-he-votes-for-abortion-rights-even-when-he-doesn%E2%80%99t-have-to/
>
> Planned Parenthood and NARAL hail Barack Obama as �100 percent� pro-
> choice. But perhaps they should create a special new category for pols
> who go above and beyond the call of duty to vote for abortion rights
> even when they are not in legislative play.
>
> Barack Obama would deserve a place of honor amongst these 110 percent
> pro-choicers, as he sees abortion rights threatened almost everywhere,
> including in anti-infanticide bills.
>
Where would the average anti-liberal right winger woman go when they
get knocked up and the government forces women to have children, but
they cannot afford to have children at that time, for whatever reason?
Bleeding to death
in a rat cockroach infested run down apartment perhaps?