Posted on 11/05/2008 6:33:23 AM PST by cpforlife.org
The Most Pro-Abortion President in History: Barack Hussein Obama to Become 44th US President
Priests for Life: the pro-life movement has entered "a chapter of new strategy and determination"
By Kathleen Gilbert
WASHINGTON, D.C., November 5, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - In a landslide victory fueled by what may have been the highest voter turnout in a century, Sen. Barack Obama last night collected over twice as many electoral votes as rival Sen. John McCain to secure his future as the 44th president of the United States.
The epic campaign rivalry came to an end when Sen. Obama unexpectedly secured the battleground state of Virginia just before 11 p.m. EST last night, pushing his electoral count above the requisite 270 votes. He ended the night having won such battleground states as Pennsylvania, Florida, Ohio, New Mexico, and Iowa while Sen. McCain managed to capture only a handful of the more volatile electoral votes.
Sen. Obama will be joined by the most Democratic Congress in fifteen years, as Republicans lost five seats to Democrats and made no gains of their own. However, the 56 seats Democrats are expected to fill falls short of the 60 required for a filibuster-proof majority. Democrats are also expected to take the largest share of the House of Representatives, with some expecting a net gain of 20 seats.
In his acceptance speech, Sen. Obama reflected on the historicity of his election to office. "Tonight, because of what we did on this day, in this election, at this defining moment, change has come to America," he told a gleeful, flag-waving crowd.
While the majority of Americans are happily greeting Sen. Obama's promised change, many others, particularly pro-life Americans, fear that the gospel of change offered by the most pro-abortion president-elect in history heralds an era of new struggles and challenges for the pro-life movement.
Fr. Frank Pavone of Priests for life issued a strongly-worded video statement putting Obama's victory in perspective with the future of the pro-life movement.
"This is one of the biggest mistakes that the American people have made in the entire history of our nation," said Fr. Pavone, "and the many reasons why that's true will come to light as the months go on. But the biggest reason why that's true is that here we have a president-elect who cannot tell the difference betweens serving the public and killing the public.
"If you don't know when human rights begin, then you're in no position to govern a country that was founded on the principle of human rights," said Fr. Pavone. Sen. Obama, when asked at the Saddleback Church forum when he thought a child gained human rights, infamously answered that the question was "above my pay grade."
"A lot changes with this," Fr. Pavone continued, noting that pro-lifers will no longer be able to work inside the White House, and will be forced to turn to defensive maneuvers in the U.S legislature.
However, "change" is far from the whole story, says Pavone, who reminds viewers of the many things that remain the same.
"The American people are pro-life," he affirmed. "The American people have never bought into the extreme abortion position of Obama and his party. And they never will. That is why the American people ... will continue to work with us.
Above all, Fr. Pavone declared, "What is never going to change is that this movement is headed for victory.
"We have started a movement on behalf of the unborn, and that movement enters a new chapter today, a chapter of new determination, of new vigor, of new strategy."
Pavone spoke words of comfort to pro-lifers struggling to accept the election news.
"Be encouraged! It's fine to be disappointed about the outcome of an election," he said. "But we can never walk away from the cause. Together we will work, we will protest, we will defend, we will intervene, we will educate, and we will win this struggle for the lives of our unborn brothers and sisters."
To see Fr. Pavone's video and statement, go to: http://www.priestsforlife.org
To see Fr. Pavone’s video and statement, go to: http://www.priestsforlife.org
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Yup, the Libs love “choice” but not choice for the fetus. God’s creation gets no choice.
When the going gets tough the tough get going.We must pray and work harder than ever.As we know good often comes from something bad happening.
IF FOCA passes an estimated 125,000 babies per year will be aborted, OVER the current of 1,350,000 estimated.
I think it will be worse.
How so many millions of so called Christians could elect this Foreign Enemy is perhaps the most painful aspect.
“America needs no words from me to see how your decision in Roe v. Wade has deformed a great nation. The so-called right to abortion has pitted mothers against their children and women against men. It has sown violence and discord at the heart of the most intimate human relationships. It has aggravated the derogation of the father’s role in an increasingly fatherless society. It has portrayed the greatest of gifts — a child — as a competitor, an intrusion, and an inconvenience. It has nominally accorded mothers unfettered dominion over the independent lives of their physically dependent sons and daughters. And, in granting this unconscionable power, it has exposed many women to unjust and selfish demands from their husbands or other sexual partners. Human rights are not a privilege conferred by government. They are every human being’s entitlement by virtue of his humanity. The right to life does not depend, and must not be declared to be contingent, on the pleasure of anyone else, not even a parent or a sovereign.”
Mother Teresa (Wall Street Journal, 2/25/94)
Absolutly.
I think that it is a good time for the Church to begin excommunication of pro-abortion politicians.Start with Kennedy,work their way down.
I wonder if pro-lifers are willing to admit their tactics have been a complete and utter failure.
Well Father, 63+ million people voted for death and there weren't enough “pro-lifers” to beat that number.
It may not be scientific but I conclude that there are fewer than 63 million truly committed pro-lifers who are eligible to vote.
Lots of Christians, protestant and catholic, and Jews boUght tickets to hell yesterday when they went in the voting booth. Were you one of them?
Education works every time. Our country's public school system has produced a generation of empty obama-bots, exactly according to plan. But Christian schools don't teach what should be taught because of the cancer of political correctness.
Christian leaders have ceded victory and I condemn them for that.
The Culture of Death has returned to DC. God help us all.
I think I’m experiencing the five stages of depression in reverse. I’ve gone from acceptance of this election to bargaining to outright anger. I’m currently at anger and headed for despondency.
I wish I shared Father Pavone’s optimism on the abortion front. Realistically speaking, we’ve lost a major, major battle. We were always just one Supreme Court vote away. We had a pro-lifer in the White House and control of the entirety of Congress, and nothing happened.
The actions of the electorate, with the ample evidence of the horror of partial-birth abortion, fantastic 3-D imaging of the fetus, and even the example of a vice presidential candidate who proved that every Down’s child deserves to live... the electorate has proven it just doesn’t care.
Pin them down - tell them what they voted for. Push it in their face.
You voted for partially delivering a baby, stabbing scissors in the back of its head and sucking its brains out.
You voted for delivering babies and letting them die due to lack of medical attention.
You voted for the government forcing doctors, pharmacists, and hospitals to violate their consciences and values to perform abortions.
What do YOU suggest?
Education?
Do you really believe these people don’t know what they’re doing?
“choice” for men
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