Posted on 08/22/2008 2:46:49 PM PDT by wagglebee
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- How strongly does Barack Obama believe in unlimited abortions? Strongly enough that the only article he wrote for the Harvard Law Review while he was a law school student talked about how fervently believed in legalized abortion. Obama's name wasn't attached to any other legal scholarship during the time.
In an article unearthed by the Politico web site, Obama, as the president of the Harvard Law Review, wrote an unsigned article touting abortion.
The web site says the article comes in at six pages and is contained in the third volume of the 1990 Harvard Law Review.
In the work, Obama considered a parenthetical abortion issue -- whether unborn children have a legal right to sue their mothers for damage sustained during pregnancy, from such things as alcohol or illegal drugs.
Obama says no and writes supportively of the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court case and another from the Illinois Supreme Court saying no such right exists.
According to Politico, Obama wrote: "[T]he case raises the broader policy and constitutional considerations that argue against using civil liability to control the behavior of pregnant women."
In a discussion of abortion itself, Obama wrote that government has more important business than "ensuring that any particular fetus is born."
He also decried any limits on abortion, saying the government has an interest in "preventing increasing numbers of children from being born in to lives of pain and despair."
Politico said the Obama campaign confirmed the pro-abortion presidential candidate wrote the piece in question and that it was one of the typical articles law students would write briefing and opining on federal and state court decisions.
In an email to the web site, Obama spokesman Ben LaBolt also confirmed that Obama "remains committed to" the sentiments he expressed in the piece.
Obama's article is on page 823 of Volume 103 of the Harvard Law Review and would likely be located in larger public libraries and databases that chronicle legal articles in scholarly publications.
He is truly satanic.
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Don’t have the time to waste on this empty suit. Did the opinion contain words containing more than two syllables? (besides abortion, that is....)
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Good find. I’m sending it to my liberal “friend” who ran off and stuck me with a $65 lunch bill when I told him that Barak wrote no papers at Harvard or while teaching at the University of Chicago law school for three years. My “friend” is an extremely devout Catholic.
Proving once again that Obama supporters are idiots, and dishonest to boot.
Being unfamiliar with the how the Harvard Law Review works, is it normal protocol for writers NOT to sign off on their work ?
Since he didn't sign off on it, can't he simply deny the work ?
“In a discussion of abortion itself, Obama wrote that government has more important business than “ensuring that any particular fetus is born.”
“He is truly satanic.”
Truly satanic indeed! How could someone make such a cold and heartless statement? Abortion is America’s Holocaust and we should have a memorial for the 50 million+ precious and innocent children that have been slaughtered.
Give "TheOne" a break, he simply was learning the language of being nuanced, the favorite word of any elitist liberal < / s >
I cannot imagine a scenario where any truly devout Christian (Catholic or Protestant) could vote for the most pro-abortion politician in America.
I think the system has changed since then, but at the time, the Law Review published "articles" by law professors, which were signed, and "notes" by law students, which were anonymous.
What issue #? Just great! Sigh.
(I'm trying to find it in our university's database)
His obsession with abortion makes me think he got some woman out there pregnant and she refused to get rid of it! I heard part of his “punishment” speech and I swear he said it was punishment on the boy too. He said it like it was an afterthought. It made me GASP!
As a typical leftist anything he wrote would almost certainly concern either abortion, the environment, homosexual “rights” or race. Or he might write something on “social justice” and hit all four as these subjects would constitute the bulk of any such essay with any left over blather being devoted to income redistribution. There isn’t much else that lefties are concerned with. Also note that the left’s preoccupation with disarming the nation has as its ultimate goal the redistribution of the monies “saved” into projects promoting abortion, the environment, homosexual “rights” and racial reparations in one form or another. That the U.S. might find itself under attack and retreating across the world is just an added bonus.
How could he have been the President of the Harvard Law Review and not have published at least one major work?
Affirmative Action?
That’s why I’m voting against Obambi by voting for McCain.
Obambi must be stopped.
“How could he have been the President of the Harvard Law Review and not have published at least one major work?”
The position was determined through a vote by the members of the class.
So with all the white liberal guilt going around at the Harvard Law School of course they vote for the black guy.
“...As a typical leftist anything he wrote would almost certainly concern either abortion, the environment, homosexual “rights” or race...”
Those are the primary issues the democrats have been running on for decades. Add the ‘stop the war’ crowd now.
Strange that there are no ‘peace’ protesters demanding Russia get out of Georgia.
Sadly, many people around the world would never dare protest Russia. Only the USA can be the evil. Just pathetic!
If he believes so strongly in abortion, why doesn’t he just abort himself?
Maybe deep down he wishes he had been aborted. He is one messed up dude!
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