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Posted on 06/13/2008 12:58:29 PM PDT by Graybeard58
WASHINGTON, D.C., June 10, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Barack Obama, the presumptive pro-abortion nominee of the Democratic Party, has plans to reward the allies that helped him topple Hillary Clinton from her throne by making total unrestricted abortion in the United States his number one priority as president.
In light of Obama's recently achieved status as the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, Focus on the Family's CitizenLink has decided to remind its supporters that almost one year has passed since Obama made his vows to the Planned Parenthood Action Fund that abortion would be the first priority of his administration.
"The first thing I'd do as president is sign the Freedom of Choice Act," Obama said in his July speech to abortion advocates worried about the increase of pro-life legislation at the state level.
The Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA) is legislation Obama has co-sponsored along with 18 other senators that would annihilate every single state law limiting or regulating abortion, including the federal ban on partial birth abortion.
The 2007 version of FOCA proposed: "It is the policy of the United States that every woman has the fundamental right to choose to bear a child, to terminate a pregnancy prior to fetal viability, or to terminate a pregnancy after fetal viability when necessary to protect the life or health of the woman."
Obama made his remarks in a question-and-answer session after delivering a speech crystallizing for abortion advocates his deep-seated abortion philosophy and his belief that federal legislation will break pro-life resistance and end the national debate on abortion. (see transcript: http://lauraetch.googlepages.com/barackobamabeforeplannedpar...)
"I am absolutely convinced that culture wars are so nineties; their days are growing dark, it is time to turn the page," Obama said in July. "We want a new day here in America. We're tired about arguing about the same ole' stuff. And I am convinced we can win that argument."
Besides making abortion on demand a "fundamental right" throughout the United States, FOCA would effectively nullify informed consent laws, waiting periods, health safety regulations for abortion clinics, etc.
Furthermore, medical professionals and institutions that refused abortions also would lose legal protections. FOCA would expose individuals, organizations, and governments - including federal, state, and local government agencies - to costly civil actions for purported violations of the act.
"Thirty-five years after Roe, abortion supporters, like Senator Obama, are dismayed that abortion remains a divisive issue and that their radical agenda has not been submissively accepted by the American public," states Denise M. Burke, vice president of Americans United for Life.
"Rather than confronting legitimate issues concerning the availability and safety of abortion, they choose to blatantly ignore the concerns and interests of everyday Americans, as well as the growing evidence that abortion hurts women."
Hillary Clinton, once the longtime Democratic front-runner and anticipated abortion president, conceded defeat last Saturday to Obama, who captured the nomination from her after a long and bitter campaign.
Obama has won the crucial endorsement of abortion activist Frances Kissling, who broke from the ranks of other radical feminist leaders earlier this year to endorse Obama, saying Obama, not Clinton, would better use the bully pulpit of the presidency to accomplish their aims and end the culture wars over abortion.
yup
>>>>>McQueeg has repeatedly proven that he is dangerous to the U.S. Constitution and the rule of law.>>>
don’t think so...but you’re welcome to your opinion. So your choice is to sit home or vote for Obama. Good Luck.
I could almost see the latter case - from a strictly hypothetical point of few. A person could declare himself a 'social conservative' - i.e., against unrestrictive abortion; against homosexual marriages; against pornography; etc; but then at the same time declare himself a fiscal 'liberal'. That is, high taxes, and womb to tomb support by the government... The problem with this example is that it is strictly hypothetical. Government is a godless blob, and once one surrenders their rights to this monster, they become enslaved to it and being a 'social conservative' means nothing because the government is going to rule your life as it sees fit.
But as I consider further Mr. Obama's claim that he is a 'committed Christian' vs. the evidence:
1) A 20 year member of an 'establishment' that preached racial hatred and division. A den of iniquity and poison which he felt fit to bring his young daughters.
2) Unbridled zeal and support for abortion (and even crossing over the line into blatant infanticide in the case where he bottled up a bill that was intended to protect babies that survived a botched partial birth abortion).
3) Support of homosexuality -- thus encouraging lost souls to continue on a path of depravity...
I'm left with the conclusion that the word "committed" must equal "anti" in Mr. Obama's lexicon...
a barbarian
It sure seems like it. It's like he's cast some sort of spell on people. They go crazy over him. I call it "the Messiah syndrome." LOL
Read his Tag Line. The guy is an idiot. He seems to believe that the conservatives would be better off without people of religion but having RINO’s is okay, by comparison.
i think he is a troll
Regarding your reply to Angkor:
Read his Tag Line. The guy is an idiot. He seems to believe that the conservatives would be better off without people of religion but having RINO’s is okay, by comparison.
i think he is a troll
IMO it’s real simple and the comparison is apt.
A “committed Christian” is a leftie social activist, as opposed to the mere “Christian” who goes to church every Sunday.
A “social Conservative” is also a churchgoing activist, with the signature cause of anti-abortionism.
“Sorry, McQueeg has already shown and demonstrated his complete disdain for the letter of the Constitution and his utter contempt for the the rule of law.”
McInsane appears to be nothing more than a democrat infiltrant into the republican party. This year, the American people have the choice between a marxist democrat and a “normal” democrat.
He is a son of bitch.
From this interview:
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewPolitics.asp?Page=/Politics/archive/200803/POL20080303b.html
Obama also has been more aggressive in framing his pro-abortion position previously than he was on Sunday. When he was in the Illinois Senate, for example, he repeatedly opposed a bill that would have defined as a “person” a baby who had survived an induced-labor abortion and was born alive.
In a 2001 Illinois Senate floor speech about that bill, he argued that to call a baby who survived an abortion a “person” would give it equal protection rights under the 14th Amendment and would give credibility to the argument that the same child inside its mother’s womb was also a “person” and thus could not be aborted.
When the Illinois Senate bill was amended to make it identical to a federal law that included language to protect Roe v. Wade—and that the U.S. Senate voted unanimously to pass—Obama still opposed the bill, voting it down in the Illinois Senate committee he chaired.
Yet, in Ohio on Sunday, Obama depicted abortion as a tragedy to be avoided, while being kept legal.
“On the issue of abortion, that is always a tragic and painful issue,” he said. “I think it is always tragic, and we should prevent it as much as possible .... But I think that the bottom line is that in the end, I think women, in consultation with their pastors, and their doctors, and their family, are in a better position to make these decisions than some bureaucrat in Washington. That’s my view. Again, I respect people who may disagree, but I certainly don’t think it makes me less Christian. Okay.”
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Seriously, though it steps into the realm of hyperbole,
how can an informed, sentient individual actually support the idea of letting an “accidentally born” infant die because to do otherwise “would put too much of a burden on the mother.”
Abortion is THE quintessential expression of “liberalism”.
Liberalism is about forcing the responsible and innocent to pay for the consequences of the irresponsible. The only individual freedoms that libs support are those related to consequence-free sexual behavior choices.
Abortion forces the MOST innocent human (in God’s image) to pay, with its very life, for irresponsible sexual behavior choices.
You may want to hear this as well:
Fr. Mitch on same sex and abortion re: Obama’s misuse of the scripture (No.15) from:
http://www.ewtn.com/vondemand/audio/seriessearchprog.asp?seriesID=6694&T1=threshold+of+hope
listen now
http://www.ewtn.com/vondemand/audio/resolve.asp?audiofile=toh_03042008.rm
But, if no women got pregnant, then the abortionists wouldn’t be able to kill babies! What are you thinking?
So what exactly are you saying? Spell it all the way out.
Tell me the many benefits of an Obama effect on the supreme court nominations and the law.
ping to #59.
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