Posted on 02/28/2008 9:39:45 AM PST by BGHater
On Wednesday a full transcript of Democrat presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama’s July 2007 speech to the Planned Parenthood Action Fund in which he vigorously defended legalized abortion became available.
In the July 17 speech, Obama attacked the Supreme Court decision that upheld the federal partial-birth abortion ban and the nomination of Supreme Court justices who favor overturning Roe v. Wade. In the speech the senator said, "There will always be people, many of goodwill, who do not share my view on the issue of choice. On this fundamental issue, I will not yield and Planned Parenthood will not yield."
Obama based his speech around the question, “What kind of America will our daughters grow up in?”
He specifically argued against the Supreme Court decision Gonzales v. Carhart, which upheld restrictions on partial-birth abortion.
“For the first time in Gonzales versus Carhart,” Obama said, “the Supreme Court held—upheld a federal ban on abortions with criminal penalties for doctors. For the first time, the Court’s endorsed an abortion restriction without an exception for women’s health. The decision presumed that the health of women is best protected by the Court—not by doctors and not by the woman herself. That presumption is wrong.”
He warned abortion supporters that the partial-birth abortion ban should not be construed as an isolated effort, saying it was wrong to presume the law was “not part of a concerted effort to roll back the hard-won rights of American women.”
Obama said the decision had encouraged an Alabama lawmaker to introduce a measure to ban all abortions. “With one more vacancy on the Court, we could be looking at a majority hostile to a woman’s fundamental right to choose for the first time since Roe versus Wade and that is what is at stake in this election,” Obama claimed.
The senator said he had a long tradition of support for legalized abortion, citing his efforts in the Illinois State Senate and his classes as a law professor. “I have worked on these issues for decades now,” he said. “I put Roe at the center of my lesson plan on reproductive freedom when I taught Constitutional Law. Not simply as a case about privacy but as part of the broader struggle for women’s equality.”
The dissent of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg in Gonzales v. Carhart won praise from Obama while Justice Anthony Kennedy, who spoke for the majority, was held up for ridicule.
“The only thing more disturbing than the decision was the rationale of the majority. Without any hard evidence, Justice Kennedy proclaimed, ‘It is self-evident that a woman would regret her choice.’ He cited medical uncertainty about the need to protect the health of pregnant women. Even though the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists found no such uncertainty. Justice Kennedy knows many things, my understanding is he does not know how to be a doctor,” Obama said.
On the topic of judicial appointments, Obama reaffirmed his opposition to the confirmation of Supreme Court Justices Roberts and Alito, who are believed to be hostile to the Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion nationwide.
Obama also depicted his opponents as divisive, saying, “They want us to believe that there’s nothing that unites us as Americans—there’s only what divides us. They’ll seek out the narrowest and most divisive ground.”
Senator Obama said he was “absolutely convinced that culture wars are so nineties,” saying it was “time to turn the page.”
“We’re tired about arguing about the same ole’ stuff,” he continued. And I am convinced we can win that argument. If the argument is narrow, then oftentimes we lose.”
He said abortion advocates should emphasize their support for women to have the “same chances” as men.
Laura Echevarria, the political writer and former National Right to Life Committee spokeswoman who transcribed the July speech, criticized Obama’s remarks.
"Many Americans see Barack Obama as a kind and compassionate candidate," she said. "However, Mr. Obama's compassion does not extend to our most vulnerable members of society- -unborn children."
Obamintation is one evil bastard without a doubt. I was talking to my inlaws they other day, who are enamored with the bastard. I told them when it comes down to it, I as a Christian CANNOT ever vote for a person who supports abortion in any way shape or form. That shut them up. They are both good lutherans, not of the liberal variety.
Obama also said in the debate the other night that he regrets having supported the federal legislation to save Terry Shiavo’s life. So he supports abortion unconditionally, infanticide, and allowing the life of an innocent disabled American women to be taken. Not alot of “hope” for those who can’t defend themselves eh Barrack?
McCain should nail Obama’s butt to the wall on the abortion issue. You know that Obama will try to paint McCain as anti-choice, anti-female etc. Maybe McCain should be prepared to expose Obama on the racist roots of Barrack’s beloved Planned Parenthood. He should have his stats ready on the abortion rates in black and minority communities.
2/27/08 “Planned Parenthood:wanting fewer blacks ‘understandable’. Abortion provider says ‘yes’ when ‘donor’ wants to reduce minorities”
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=57526
“The Negro Project”
Margaret Sanger’s eugenic plan for Black America”
http://www.citizenreviewonline.org/special_issues/population/the_negro_project.htm
This guy is dangerous. Doesn’t he realize Planned Parenthood is the baby of a woman who hated blacks and wanted to get rid of minorities????
I know it’s not “PC” to recognize the truth in some instances but the simple truth is that the constituancy in question bought into living on the democrat plantation over 50 years ago and they have been dumbed down through several generations of public (government) school to the point where even if you hit them over the head with the truth they wouldn’t see it.
When you poll black people on their beliefs the arregate result is generally conservative on most issues. But when you point out that the Democratic Party’s entire history and policies have been antithetical to the best interests of the black community, and that to the extent that a major political party is responsible for any political and civil liberty that black people have, they owe it to the Republican Party, and even when you can prove that historically and factually the most amazing case of political cognitive dissonance then occurs.
The common response is, well that may be true but only the Democrats are “for us”. They usually go on to an entirely erroneous understanding of Nixon’s Southern strategy, a distortion of Berry Goldwater’s principled opposition to the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and completely ignore the fact that the Democratic Party was founded amongst other things, to extend slavery into the territory’s. The Democratic Party opposed 13, 14, and 15th amendment to the United States Constitution, reconstruction, every bit of foundational civil rights legislation from 1866 to 1968, instituted Jim Crow in the Southern states, refused to enact antilynching laws, and most importantly destroyed the two-parent black family with Lyndon Johnson’s welfare state. When you point out the fact that the modern-day Democratic Party is home to the pro-abortion forces that have enhanced the wildly disproportionate abortion rate in the black community, that doesn’t seem to register either.
The black community is in the throes of the worst political brainwashing outside of the Soviet Union and I just don’t know what can be done about it. I constantly engaged in debates with people in my community and they are determined to vote for Democrats despite the clear and present evidence of their utterly destructive policies. The staggeringly high level of political cognitive dissonance amongst my people is frightening.
Very well thought out and accurate to a tee in your assessment. You should be writing books Frank. The truth needs to get out there and you obviously have a great voice.
I attended college 17 years ago in Los Angeles at a school with a large black community. I was having a debate one day with a young black woman about Margaret Sanger and Planned Parenthood. She was saying what a great feminist Sanger was and what a great example her life was to women. (She had obviously been brainwashed in some woman studies class.) I then shared Sanger’s views on black eugenics and this woman was horrified. I told her to do some research because all the evidence is easily available and she wasn’t going to learn it in school. I said it is imperative the truth gets out to the black community because the percentage of abortions for blacks was much higher than for the general population. Seventeen years later and nothing has changed. Margaret Sanger’s vision is still alive today in the pro-choice movement, whether people are aware of it or not.
It would be revolutionary for a politician to have the caring and the courage to point out the facts regarding this issue.
So. . .I take it you also credit Rudy Guilliani with reducing abortion in his state (as he claimed occurred)?
I can see that. It’s not a good thing to be on the dole either, black or white. They become used to it, generation after generation, and they are lied to in college about how awful America is and has been to their race. Don’t they realize that white Christians were the ones who brought them out of slavery? Gerrit Smith and his abolitionists were a stone’s throw from where I live.
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