Listen up. I know something that you bitter rural folks don't know...
Posted on 04/15/2008 2:51:20 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
A pro-life group is tagging Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama for a speech he gave last year at a Planned Parenthood forum. Obama indicated the first action he would take as president would be signing a comprehensive pro-abortion bill that would entrench Roe v. Wade.
"Well, the first thing I'd do as president is, is sign the Freedom of Choice Act," Obama said at a July 17 event for the nation's leading abortion business.
The FOCA bill would make legalized abortion the law of the land, but it would go further and overturn state pro-life laws nationwide.
As Douglas Johnson, the legislative director for National Right to Life, told LifeNews.com -- FOCA would be the most aggressively pro-abortion law ever adopted.
He said the measure would do more because it also would go further than Roe, invalidating all of the major types of pro-life laws that have been upheld by the Supreme Court in the decades since Roe.
"The claim that the bill would ‘codify Roe' is just a marketing gimmick by the proponents," explained Johnson. "The sponsors hope that journalists and legislators will lazily accept that vague shorthand phrase – but it is very misleading."
"The references to Roe in the bill are in non-binding, discursive clauses," he said. "The heart of the bill is a ban that would nullify all of the major types of pro-life laws that the Supreme Court has said are permissible under Roe v. Wade, including the ban on partial-birth abortions and bans on government funding of abortion."
Because of the reach of the bill and Obama's commitment to make it his first priority as president, one pro-life group says it shows how extreme Obama is on abortion.
Rev. Patrick Mahoney, the head of the Christian Defense Coalition tells LifeNews.com the statement also goes against the comments Obama made in a Sunday night forum on faith where he said he wanted to work to reduce abortions and have common ground with pro-life advocates.
"It is shocking that Senator Obama would make his first priority as President of the United States signing the Freedom of Choice Act," Mahoney said. "This piece of legislation would expand and codify abortion and nullify any state or federal restrictions on abortion."
"With critical issues facing America like poverty, health care, the economy, national security and education; it is stunning that Senator Obama's first priority as President would be to expand 'abortion rights,'" Mahoney told LifeNews.com.
"This public statement shows how radical Senator Obama is on the subject of abortion and how out of step he is with the American public," he added.
Mahoney said his long-standing pro-abortion position "puts him in conflict with evangelicals and Catholics who support building a culture of life."
He said his group would confront Obama about abortion on the campaign trail.
Obama is a lying SOS
Barack Obama Claims He's Not "Pro-Abortion," Abortion Not a "Good Thing"
Yep, he's the Great Unifier all right. His first act would be to take a radical, partisan position on the most divisive issue in American politics.
What an utter joke he is.
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See also what Jill Stanek has to say about Obama and live birth abortion.
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This guy (Obama) is dangerous and must be defeated if he wins the Democrat presidential nomination, as seems likely, today. I'll consider voting for John McCain, a Democrat-Lite politician posing as a 'Republican', with lots of loopy liberal beliefs - global warming, open borders, closing Guantonamo and putting terrorist suspects into the U.S. justice system, etc.- in order to prevent a dedicated, radial leftist like Obama from attaining the presidency.
Funny...the President can’t STOP abortion but he apparently can make abortion on demand a right.
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More and more, this guy is proving not ready for prime time as a politician. If he tries to enshrine abortion through the legislative process, he’ll be a grease spot by morning. The only way these guys get to keep the abortion industry going is through the courts, which has been a successful strategy for years.
Could it be he’s a Democrat?
The guy is not just incompetent, he's a certifiable nutcase.
The guy is not just incompetent, he's a certifiable nutcase.
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