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Posted on 05/21/2008 3:56:13 PM PDT by wagglebee
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Michelle Obama, the attorney wife of pro-abortion Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, is coming under fire for a letter she wrote defending partial-birth abortions. The 2004 letter, written to help Obama in his campaign for his U.S. Senate seat, opposes the ban on the abortion procedure.
In February 2004, Michelle Obama penned a fundraising letter to help her husband Barack raise funds for his Illinois-based Senate seat.
The letter contends the federal ban on partial-birth abortions "is clearly unconstitutional" and "a flawed law."
Though the three-day-long partial-birth abortion procedure involves the partial birth of a baby during the middle trimester of pregnancy and the jamming of scissors into the back of her head to kill her, Obama's wife describes it as "legitimate" medicine.
"The fact remains, with no provision to protect the heath of the mother, this ban on a legitimate medical procedure is clearly unconstitutional and must be overturned," Michelle Obama writes in the letter.
She also said the Bush administration should not encourage the abortion practitioners who sued to reverse the ban to drop their lawsuit to make it unconstitutional. The Supreme Court later sided with Bush and Congress in saying the ban is legitimate.
In closing, Obama told prospective donors that they could "count on" Barack to "keep the Bush team from appointing the Supreme Court justice that will vote against Roe v. Wade."
Noted pro-life advocate Jill Stanek highlighted the letter on her blog and said Michelle was "leeching off the partial birth abortion ban" to raise funds for her husband.
"I'd like to ask Michelle to explain her legal opinion about this law the Supremes went on to declare constitutional," Stanek said.
"I'd like to ask Michelle how in the world she could in good conscience raise money from fear-mongering about this barbaric abortion procedure," she added.
Stanek pointed out that Barack Obama recently issued a warning to "lay off my wife" after she came under fire about an unrelated issue.
Stanek said the request amounted to "Free speech for me but not for thee" -- something she called "a typical left-wing position."
"So it's fine to kill late-term babies, but we can't risk hurting Michelle's feelings about it," she added.
"The fact remains, with no provision to protect the heath of the mother, this ban on a legitimate medical procedure is clearly unconstitutional and must be overturned," Michelle Obama writes in the letter.
Whether the baby is alive or has been murdered, delivery is still necessary, so I can think of NO SCENARIO where partial birth abortion could possibly save a woman's life.
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Don’t mention his wife. Or his ears. Or his middle name.
you are not programmed to refuse the Messiah’s message to not pick on his wife. leave all thought and reason to the all mighty
ALBAMBI!
he knows better than me.
/s
Or his pastor, or his church, or the fact he’s a muslim, or that he’s an appeaser, or ......
Help us out guys there’s got to be more...........
Exactly. If you have to get the baby out for medical reasons, get it out, but do all possible to save its life.
Mainstream Democrats. What’s the big deal?
I remember Ronald Reagan once said, “It seems that everyone in favor of abortion has already been born.”
...or his race, or his “parenthood = punishment” stance...
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I can understand why she would write such a letter. Her people use abortion as birth control. And there are those that want these people in the White House?
Just curious, how popular is the partial birth abortion issue among the Democrats?
?or his race, or his “parenthood=punishment” stance...
or aby of his best friend’s names.......
Or his lack of experience, or his lack of respect for the nations flag, or his need to play with his crotch rather than his respect for the flag, or his stand on aborting the innocent baby, or his - and the list keeps getting longer.
Didn’t Senator Bob Casey Jr., The Catholic Senator from Pa.,stronly endorse and recommend Obama to the voters of Pa.?
Isn’t Bishop James Clifford Timlin of the Scranton Diocese a leading Democrat and supporter of Bob Casey Jr?
Michelle Obama is such a pathetic and filthy little bug.
This disgusting creature shouldn’t be allowed into the White House on a tour, let alone live there.
The last time Michelle got something right was when she tied her star to a rising politican. Too bad he’s gay, but hey, she can’t have everything.
3 days? It takes 3 days? Wagglebee, can you explain?
I don’t know, and I’m not sure I want to know why it takes three days. I do know that the natural labor process comes into play, but I’m not totally sure why it takes so long.
Here is some info from Priests for Life which is fairly comprehensive, perhaps some of the FReepers I’ve pinged can better explain what is involved.
http://www.priestsforlife.org/partialbirth.html
..usually laminaria is used & yes it can take a couple days before the actual abortion takes place.
He used his grandmother..."a typical white person"...to call attention to white racism. If Madalyn Dunham feared black men, statistics support that fear.
ps...laminaria is seaweed or kelp
So they are saying the induction can take up to 2 days, and the birth another 24 hours.
I was induced for both of my children, and it never took more than 26 hours to give birth.
This kind of writing can be misleading, I suppose.
Thanks for your answer.
wagglebee, the link doesn’t work
No problem. Every time she says something stupid or controversial send her out for thorough interviews with someone like O'Reilly and she's off limits.
http://www.priestsforlife.org/partialbirth.html
It’s works fine for me. Google “Priests for Life” (Father Frank Pavone’s group, he was the priest who did the Terri’s memorial service for the Schindlers) and on the right side of the page about two-thirds of the way down there are topics, click on Partial Birth Abortion.
In abortion, where's the hurry?-(extreme sarcasm)...the only outcome they want is a dead baby...
I'm not sure why they would make the procedure so drawn out...allowing the cervix to open gradually (even if the woman is dead set on aborting, it seems it would be agony waiting for it to happen for 3 days)
Anyone have more imput?....anyone?....anyone?
Keep in mind that the monsters can't let the baby be born before they slaughter it, they have to just get the head out and then proceed with the slaughter. I've seen pictures and it is devastating.
must be my computer?
Evil. Sick, evil and cruel. Democrats are sick.
I have no problem with the link, just use Google.
It's not them.
It's the baby, trying not to come out.
I've seen the pictures too.
*shudder*
Michelle Obama’s claim that partial birth abortion is a legitimate medical procedure is at the same level of hypocrisy that Mengele’s death experiments were.
She is a hardened B-tch with a cold heart.
There is NO POSSIBLE WAY that ANYBODY could view these pictures and still claim that the murder victim is not a human being.
I know.
Perhaps when Michelle is criticizing the USA as a “mean” country, she is thinking of these horrific acts of infanticide. Could she have just a ray of conscience, enough to shine through the racism, the anger, the resentment?
If you mean her fellow baby killers and their facilitators, you're absolutely right. Its a method to keep the losers down on the lieberal plantation since the overwhelming majority of these barbaric murders are covered by welfare benefits.
more proof of an afro freak parade that woulda never stood the light of day even as Dems had the media done it’s job
Awesome video:
The same kind of terrorists who support Obama did this:
http://www.frugalsites.net/911/attack/
Never apologize for them.
Never appease them.
Never forget.
Hillary Clinton had her special cause, Health Care in America.
Laura Bush promotes her special cause, Libraries and Reading.
First Lady Michelle Obama will open her own Special Office, Baby Killer Office.
The whole procedure sounds barbaric like something performed by some Nazi doctor in a concentration camp. Just thinking about it makes me sick. How can anyone, any mother, defend such things?
Thanks.
the pba procedure generally takes 2 to 3 days to complete, that’s why it’s a load of hogwash that the politicians put a health-of-the-mother clause in the bills they write. Something is implanted and the cervix dialated overnight. If a mother is in an emergency situation, a simple c-section can be performed and the baby saved. If a mother really was critical from some type of medical illness or injury; she would not wait 2-3 days for a pba procedure, a c-section would be done and her ailment would be immediately treated the same day.
It’s a scam perpetrated by the evil ones out there, like that idiot tim russert on meet the depressed and all the democrat politicians, who constantly state and repeat themselves about having a “health of the mother” clause in the ban on pba legislation. Incidentally, the ban on PBA written by Smith and Santorum and signed by Bush does NOT ban the PBA procedure.
The New Underground Railroad,Thousands of women come to New York each year for late-term abortions.
Thanks for your reply.
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