The Mendacity of Hope: Barack Obama’s Radical Agenda for Abortion
by Abortion remains a contentious issue for the country despite 36 years since the controversial Roe v Wade Supreme Court decision in 1973. Barack Obama’s election as the first African-American President is historic but what are his views on human life and what is his agenda for abortion? Obama has promised “The first thing I’d do as president is sign the Freedom of Choice Act”, which would nullify every federal, state, and local law limiting or regulating abortion. Let’s all “hope” Obama as the first “post partisian” president will indeed bring “change” but not just to America but also to himself with a repudiation of his militant commitment to unrestricted abortion with the appointment of non activist judges that respect our constitution and the inalienable rights of all Americans whether they be born or unborn.
It has been over 35 years since the controversial Roe v Wade Supreme Court (7-2) decision to make early term abortions legal in the US. Despite the landmark decision in 1973 abortion rights are still being vigorously contested in many quarters of the country. For those against abortion mainly for religious beliefs but also for profound moral reasons argue that abortion as defined by Roe is the willful taking of a human life endowed with all the rights and protections guaranteed everyone by the government. On the other side those in favor of the right to abortion argue that women should have control over their own bodies making it an issue of privacy; a personal decision that should not be privy to government. These disparate and contentious points of view underscore the essence of the debate that has been ongoing for nearly four decades and in all likelihood will continue to rage on for the foreseeable future certainly through and beyond the Obama administration.
So where does our newly elected “post partisan” President stand on this inflammatory issue of abortion? As the most liberal democrat while in the US Senate, Obama strongly supports a women’s right to choose to terminate her pregnancy for any reason through legal and safe abortion procedures as defined by Roe. If you accept his voting record as well as his public speeches and policy statements, Obama will apparently do just about anything and everything he can to preserve a women’s right to affordable and unfettered abortion on demand as promoted by tax subsidized abortion providers like Planned Parenthood. Indeed, Obama’s explicit even enthusiastic support for abortion on demand has rightly earned him a 100% rating from NARAL (National Abortion & Reproductive Rights Action League) Pro-Choice America as well as an enthusiastic endorsement from Planned Parenthood the largest abortion provider in the US. In contrast, Obama not surprisingly has received a rating of 0% by the NRLC (National Right to Life Committee) the largest and most influential nonprofit prolife advocacy organization.
Obama’s wife Michelle who is his closest political advisor is also pro choice and strongly supports a women’s right to abortion on demand. Like her husband Mrs. Obama who also graduated from Harvard law school holds extreme views on abortion and wrote a controversial fund raising letter defending a partial birth abortion procedure known as “intact dilation and evacuation”, a contentious late-term abortion technique. In her letter she called partial birth abortion a “legitimate medical procedure” and declared the federal ban “a flawed law” that “is clearly unconstitutional”. However, the Supreme Court in 2007 disagreed with her narrowly upholding the ban with a vote of 5-4.
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Post CommentJeannie
On January 18, 2009 at 8:36 am
Loved your article…it was great!
Marie
On January 18, 2009 at 3:51 pm
This article was very informative. I don’t think the general public knows how extreme Obama’s position is on abortion.
Mack
On February 3, 2009 at 10:16 am
This is America, and we have the right to CHOOSE what we want. If you are pro-life, you can still CHOOSE to NOT have the abortion. Obviously. And as for the pro-choicers out there, if they want an abortion, they’ll get it whether it’s legal or not, and better legal for their protection.
Chris Chen
On February 3, 2009 at 9:09 pm
Obama said in one of the debates that America’s greatest moral failure was not doing enough for its underprivileged. He pandered to the christian right when he lamented ”We still don’t abide by that basic precept of Matthew — whatever you do to the least of my brothers, you do to me.”
Yes Mack this is America where we still believe in protecting and helping those unable to do so for themselves. And who is lesser, more in need of protection, less able to speak out than an unborn human being? A protection of which we all needed at one time.
But instead of keeping his promise to reduce abortions Obama within days of becoming the historic 44th President furtively signed an executive order to restore US funding of abortions in the third world contries for the sole purpose of population control.
Patrick J. Williams
On March 15, 2009 at 11:54 pm
It is difficult to find anyone in the world today as vehement about destroying our youngest human persons. He is quite willing to reestablish the killing of babys that are already viable out of the womb. If a baby is embarrasing or inconvenient to its mother or world population his judgement is to kill that child. Why are we surprised. He is a Marxist and a Christian-by-Political-Convenience-Only. He will make a “god” of the government and establish his Marxist philosophy as rapidly as he can. His first step is to bankrupt the country and make us all dependent on his government.
How can we avert this coming disaster?