Editorial: NARAL Pro-Choice America's Endorsement of Barack Obama

Catholic Online ^ | 5/14/08 | Deacon Keith Fournier

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The NARAL endorsement for Senator Obama was to be expected.

This well funded, powerful organization knows that Senator Obama will be the Democratic nominee and has a very good chance at being the next President. They have, as I have, closely followed his record on this seminal issue. They know, as I do, that he favors legal abortion throughout all nine months of pregnancy as a “choice” to be made by the mother, in consultation with others.

On July 17, 2007 he made his position very clear in an address to Planned Parenthood with these words:

“I have worked on these issues for decades now. 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....we fought together in the Illinois State Senate against restrictive choice legislation—laws just like the federal abortion laws, the federal abortion bans that are cropping up. I’ve stood up for the freedom of choice in the United States Senate and I stand by my votes against the confirmation of Judge Roberts and Samuel Alito.... 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.”

The Senator from Illinois is a supporter of keeping abortion legal throughout all nine months of pregnancy. Shockingly, he even opposed the ban on Partial Birth Abortion.

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Treating people as products to be used rather than persons to be protected by law has eroded the foundation of authentic freedom. By denying the pre-eminent right to life, and denying to an entire class of people the freedoms both to be born and to have a future, the entire structure of human rights has been put at risk.

The recognition of the right to life as fundamental and unalienable must be the very first question we ask in evaluating any Presidential candidate in 2008, no matter what their political label and no matter what other positions they hold.

Calling the taking of innocent human life in the womb a “right” is simply wrong.No candidate who does so deserves support.

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He should love it. He would never want his girls burdened with a baby........get em an abortion Barry.

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Obama + veto proof liberal majority = liberal judges = lots of abortions

Scary. But not a big deal to sellouts like Kmiec