For those that believe Barack Obama is Pro-Life, I challenge you to read through this post and then ask yourself if you still believe that he’s Pro-Life?
Obama’s public face about abortion is just one big lie. Out in public, debates, etc he puts on this “I don’t like abortion, I just want women to have their right to do it. I think we need to cut down on the number of abortions through prevention, education, etc, etc” — It SOUNDS “compassionate”.
But before the economy took it’s big plunge, he told Planned Parenthood, and this is recorded too– that his FIRST action as President would be to enact the Freedom of Choice Act– which WIPES OUT every single measure that DOES actually cut down on the number of abortions. He knew he could become the leader of the free world– and THE most important thing to him, the most pressing concern to him is lifting ANY and ALL restrictions on abortion???
Right now 36 states have parental notification laws— the Freedom of Choice Act would WIPE OUT a state’s right to require parental notification. So your 12 year old daughter could go get an abortion without your knowledge or consent. She needs consent to get a cavity filled. She needs consent to go on a school field trip. She needs consent to get a tattoo. But Obama thinks she should be able to get an abortion without mom or dad even knowing.
26 states have informed consent laws which provides someone seeking an abortion with MEDICAL information (not moral or religious counseling) about the present state of the baby, what the abortion process actually is and how it works. Doctors do that with ALL medical procedures. You go in to have a corn removed from your big toe and the doctor will explain to you what he’s going to do and how he’s going to do it. They do that with ANY procedure. But pro-choicers want to say that in the case of an abortion, any “counseling” or “description” of the process is only to put undo pressure on the mother to not go through with it.). FOCA would WIPE OUT informed consent laws.
34 states have funding restrictions and do not allow tax payer dollars to fund abortions. So in those states, women on Medicaid and welfare women can’t have an abortion using my tax dollars. FOCA would wipe that out and give women and young girls of any age, without parental consent an abortion using taxpayer money.
26 states have late-term and partial-birth abortion bans. FOCA would ABOLISH these bans even though the Supreme Court JUST ruled last year to uphold a state’s right to ban partial-birth abortions. So women would be able to get an abortion no matter how far along the pregnancy is, and would be able to have a partial-birth abortion for ANY reason, health wouldn’t even be an issue.
45 states have Protection of Conscience Laws– these laws allow doctors the right to NOT perform an abortion if he/she has a moral objection. They also stop doctors from being sued for discrimination, and stop doctors, nurses, technicians, etc from being fired for refusing to perform abortions, assist in them, etc. Conscience Laws would be WIPED OUT with FOCA. So even though there are PLENTY of doctors who are perfectly willing to perform them, doctors who object to doing so would either be FORCED to perform them or face being fired and/or sued, or they’d be forced to quit in order to avoid being sued and/or fired.
Obama spews all these LIES about worrying about the health of the mother… give me a flipping break. The overwhelming majority of all abortions, (95%), are done as a means of birth control. Only 1% are performed because of rape or incest; 3% due to the mother’s health problems. And 1% because of fetal abnormalities.
And what does the health of the mother have to do with all of the above restrictions being taken off the law books? What does the health of the mother have ANYTHING to do with a doctor who morally objects to performing abortions? He’s going to MAKE doctors perform abortions JUST because their patients want one? A doctor can be sued, fired etc just because he says “Sorry, I don’t do abortions but you can go to Planned Parenthood or Dr. Smith”?
He doesn’t give one WHIT about the health of the mother– otherwise why would he want to allow doctors to be PUNISHED for not wanting to participate in one, when the woman can just go to any other doctor who will?
Obama wants to lift every single solitary measure that in ANY WAY limits abortions. So when he says “I’m personally against abortion, I think there should be fewer abortions, and I think we should do everything we can to reduce the number of abortions,”he is LYING THROUGH HIS TEETH. He’s doing EXACTLY the opposite. He’s wanting to GUARANTEE that anyone of any age, for any reason, at any time during the pregnancy can have access to free (read that: Taxpayer funded) abortions, and is willing to FORCE doctors, nurses, techs, etc to choose between their moral conscience and keeping their jobs.
So… do you still believe that Obama is Pro-Life?
You know Obama wanting to give people back what was their’s in the first place cannot be misconstrued as a lie. God designed us with free will and for any man to take that right away is WRONG!
Do I agree with abortion? Not any more but do I agree that we have a right to take away someone’s choice…heck no.
We have no right to sit on someone else’s fence and worry about what they do. We all need to worry about what is in our own backyard instead.
And if Obama is lying, he is not doing anything any different than any other President in my lifetime has and I am 40 yrs old.
Goodness…get real!
You didn’t answer the question LaTara.
LaTara, abortion is killing someone ELSE. Do you honestly believe a woman should have the right to kill someone, just because that “someone” is in her body?
So… do you still believe that Obama is Pro-Life?
“Do I agree with abortion? Not any more but do I agree that we have a right to take away someone’s choice…heck no.”
This statement was in the back of my head all day and it’s really been bugging me. I don’t understand the, “I don’t agree with it, but I don’t think we have a right to take away someone else’s choice” mentality.
We’re not talking about someone’s right to choose whether or not to have cheese on their burger, or what color to have their car painted.
We’re talking about whether or not someone should have the “right” to kill their child. Yes, in the case of abortion, it’s not yet “born”, but it’s STILL a living baby, it just isn’t living on it’s own. But neither is my already born daughter. She’s JUST as dependent on me as she was in the womb. She can’t feed herself and take care of herself– if I don’t do it she’d die. And I’d be arrested for it, too. And not feeding her would be a PASSIVE thing– it’s something I’d NOT be doing. I wouldn’t be DIRECTLY “killing” herl. It would be INdirectly killing her by what I’m NOT doing.
LaTara, if you personally don’t “agree” with abortion, WHY don’t you agree with it? Why do you “personally” think it’s wrong, yet think it’s okay for someone else to do it?
Great article Angela, very informative. It would be good if millions of ignorant people could read it. Especially before going into a abortion chamber to exterminate their child that God trusted them with. We will all answer for the American holocaust, we have blood on our hands. Thanks again for what you do!
Dan
LaTara, if you personally don’t “agree” with abortion, WHY don’t you agree with it? Why do you “personally” think it’s wrong, yet think it’s okay for someone else to do it?
That was a great question Tracy!!
Dan, what do you say to those that call themselves Christ followers who voted for Obama OR any politician that is pro-abortion? What do you say to those people? What are your thoughts on that?
The whole thing bugs me actually. How can you be “Christian” OR “Catholic” OR “Greek Orthodox” OR “Protestant” OR “Evangelical” and have voted for Obama? I don’t understand that at all.
Great post! Straight and to the point explanation of what Obama intends to do with FOCA and presents how he has no concern for the unborn and the laws in place to help prevent abortions. What is the purpose of reversing laws such as the right to conscience law? There are plenty of places women can go to have abortions why FORCE doctors,etc who do not perform them due to moral conscience to perform an abortion? It is insane for anyone to think he is pro-life…I have never heard he is pro-life…I have always believed him to be more than pro-choice but PRO-ABORTION, as he feels a women should not be ‘punished’ with a baby! The man is sick,arrogant and can not be trusted. Thanks for the post!
Just when I was beginning to think the Kool Aid had been distributed & my home was missed, here you are!
God Bless your clear vision & ability to compare & contrast what is said with what is actually happening in our country.
Oh ~ and not just here! Wasn’t Obama’s first order of business as President to allow U.S. foreign funding to be used for abortions worldwide?! So our country, once so highly revered, is now known for funding the murder of babies worldwide!!! For the first time in my life, I am ashamed of my country.
ABORTION IS MURDER!!!
Premeditated Murder!
It is KILLING A HUMAN LIFE!!!
What about the HUMAN RIGHTS of the BABY??
What about Informed Consent?
And please spare me the “woman’s right to choose” argument. It just creates a moral gray area where none really exists. If you choose to NOT use prevention, then you choose TO get pregnant. Period. No gray – it is clearly black or white.
If abortion was NOT an option, women would take prevention more seriously. (As I and all my friends did.) And let’s remember the many couples who cannot have children. They would be happy to cover the medical expenses & give that baby a loving home, and you would have given a precious gift to a needy couple instead of becoming a murderer.
It appears each time Obama opens his mouth he is giving us something that will further degrade the moral & social fiber of our society, and he bestows it is though it is a good and rightful gift. All he is actually doing is tightening his grip on our ever diminishing freedom and our right to be independent, intelligent, moral, responsible & informed.
God bless us all.
Obama IS Pro-Abortion TOTALLY!! Thank you so much for your comment Patty!!
As my dad would say, “They’re not thinking Christians!” They’re just wrong! #tcot #sgp
Before I was saved [it took me long enough] I voted primarily Dem even though I conveniently claimed to be pro-life. I bought into the jive that you have to consider the ‘whole’ candidate or the ‘big picture’. There is also the contention that a pro-life candidate with “not a chance to win” is a wasted vote.
Bottom line: abortion is murder. Wanton disregard for life. Depraved indifference. You’re either with life or against life. The viability question is a canard if there ever was one. Anyone with a baby knows that no unattended baby could survive on his or her own – they are wholly and completely at the mercy of a loving parent. To suggest that a baby in the womb, all the more vulnerable, is any less viable is just so twisted.
As the dad of 2 adopted kids I can attest that there is always another way out for a girl or woman in a crisis pregnancy. God will bless those who choose life.
Angela– people who voted for Obama, who are Christian often say that the reason they voted for him, even though they “personally” disagree with abortion, is because they are vehemently against the war and are those who’ve been convinced that it’s the Dems who are “compassionate” to the needy. They cite Christ’s admonitions to care for the poor, the sick, — which I think ALL Christians agree we should do.
The significant thing however, is that with all of Christ’s teaching about compassion and taking care of each other, you won’t find ONE place he preached that to the GOVERNMENT or it’s officials. He didn’t say that CAESAR should providing for their care by taxing the people. He wanted us to do what HE did– to voluntarily help those in need out of love. He said those things to the people– wanting them to take care of each other. When Christ came upon someone who needed help he willingly and VOLUNTARILY helped them himself. He didn’t gather up all the ill and afflicted and set them on Caesar’s palace steps and tell Caesar HE had to provide for them. He showed us by example that we should offer our help and have compassion. He never said ANYTHING about government “social programs” or that Caesar should be handling all that.
It’s also interesting to notice that in Christ’s story of the Good Samaritan, the Samaritan voluntarily took care of the beaten man, provided shelter, food and care for him. He didn’t create a bureaucracy and/or require the town’s citizen’s to pay higher taxes for the man’s room and board. He just OFFERED what he had.
Very response, Tracy. God calls us, not the government, to help those in need.
As for the big question at hand, I STILL believe Obama is pro-CHOICE.
Good article.
I’m not sure how anyone could mistake Obama for being pro-life, given his position on FOCA and the BAIPA. On the Born-Alive Infant Protection Act even Planned Parenthood backed off of their opposition after the wording was chg’d in Illinois to match the bill at the federal level, but Obama still opposed it.
@LaTara – we have plenty of laws that restrict individual choice on any number of things, especially when the choices in question impact others. Some people have no problem with drunk driving either, but it doesn’t mean it should be legal. Why should anyone have a right to take the life of another human being? No one does, with the exception of women and their unborn children, even for no reason other than convenience.
@Tracy – exactly, as Christians we are taught to help others, not depend on government to take care of those in need. Actually they do everyone a disservice when the gov’t forcibly takes from some to redistribute to others. I know I feel great about being able to help others locally. I don’t feel great about sending $ to the gov’t because I know they are going to waste most of it on things like researching why pigs stink, and they have little in terms of results to show for all their bureaucratic programs. In general, private charities are much more efficient and therefore do more good than the gov’t can do.
Back to the original question (sort of), if Obama was really concerned about women’s health and women’s rights, he’d be voicing some opposition to things like Muslim “honor” killings which are now taking place in America (and getting little to no coverage). Instead, he is talking about “reaching out” to the Taliban of all people (but he can’t be bothered to show a little common courtesy to Britain).
Most of you made excellent points! THANK YOU for participating in this discussion. It’s an important one!