November 2, 2008
June 15, 2008
Obama's Pro Choice Record, More Than Just Pro Abortion
As an Illinois state senator, Barack Obama twice opposed legislation to define
as "persons" babies who survive late-term abortions... Mr. Obama said in a
speech on the Illinois Senate floor that he could not accept that babies wholly
emerged from their mother's wombs are "persons," and thus deserving of equal
protection under the Constitution's 14th Amendment...
...Mr. Obama has
compiled a 100% lifetime "pro-choice" voting record, including votes against any
and all restrictions on late-term abortions and parental involvement in
teenagers' abortions
To Mr. Obama, abortion, or "reproductive justice," is
"one of the most fundamental rights we possess." And he promises, "the first
thing I'd do as president is sign the Freedom of Choice Act," which would
overturn hundreds of federal and state laws limiting abortion, including the
federal ban on partial-birth abortion and bans on public funding of
abortion."
Then there's Mr. Obama's...opposition to laws that protect
babies born-alive during botched abortions. If partial-birth abortion is, as
Democratic icon Daniel Patrick Moynihan labeled it, "too close to infanticide,"
then what is killing fully-birthed babies?
On the campaign trail, Mr.
Obama seldom speaks about abortion and its related issues. But his few moments
of candor are illuminative. When speaking extemporaneously, Mr. Obama will admit
things like "I don't want [my daughters] punished with a baby." Or he'll say
that voting for legislation allowing Terri Schiavo's family to take its case
from state courts to federal courts in an effort to stop her euthanasia was his
"biggest mistake" in the Senate. Biggest mistake?
...He recently compared his
relationship with unrepentant domestic terrorist William Ayers, a member of a
group responsible for bombing government buildings, to his friendship with
stalwart pro-life physician and senator Tom Coburn...
...In "The Audacity
of Hope," Mr. Obama denounces abortion absolutism on both ends of the
ideological spectrum. That is audacious indeed considering Obama's record, which
epitomizes the very radicalism and extremism he denounces.
(Thank you, Ron.)
February 27, 2008
Obama Calls Vote to Help Terri Schiavo Biggest Mistake
Obama Calls Vote to Help Terri Schiavo Biggest Mistake
by Jennifer Mesko, managing editor
'Whether it's abortion or end-of-life issues, he's been consistently anti-life.'
During the 20th Democratic presidential debate Tuesday, U.S. Sen. Barack
Obama said the one vote he would take back was his 2005 U.S. Senate vote to help
save the life of Terri Schiavo, a brain-injured Florida woman.
"We adjourned with a unanimous agreement that eventually allowed
Congress to interject itself into that decision-making process of the families,"
Obama said. "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."
Schiavo was not dying nor terminally ill; she was not brain-dead nor in
a coma. Yet for seven years, her husband, Michael, sought to have her feeding
tube removed. Congress intervened toward the end, but it was not enough. Schiavo
died March 31, 2005, after 13 days of court-ordered dehydration and starvation.
Jill Stanek, a pro-life speaker and blogger, called Obama "utterly pro-death."
"He lives in 'opposite world,' where he is an environmentalist,
to the extreme, and very pro-animal," she said. "But when it comes to the
sanctity of human life, he takes every stand against it, up to, and including,
babies who have been aborted alive.
"His priorities are completely unintelligible."
When asked Tuesday which vote she would take back, Sen. Hillary Clinton,
D-N.Y., said she would not vote for the Iraq war again.
Tuesday wasn't the first time Obama talked about his "mistake."
During an April 2007 debate, he said: "I think professionally the
biggest mistake that I made was when I first arrived in the Senate. There was a
debate about Terri Schiavo, and a lot of us, including me, left the Senate with
a bill that allowed Congress to intrude where it shouldn't have.”
Bruce Hausknecht, judicial analyst for Focus on the Family Action, said
Obama has been disingenuous.
"How can Obama reconcile his cavalier dismissal of Terri Schiavo's
predicament as a 'family matter,' when he has stated he wants to appoint judges
who are 'going to protect people who may be vulnerable in the political process,
the outsider, the minority, those who are vulnerable, those who don't have a lot
of clout'?
"Whether it's abortion or end-of-life issues," Hausknecht said, "he's
been consistently anti-life."