Posted on 10/31/2008 7:43:23 PM PDT by jimluke01
It’s a day like any other. The kids are safe at school and you’re at work wishing you weren’t. All is as it should be. Then your cell phone rings. On the other end is your twelve-year-old daughter’s junior high school guidance counselor. Amid nervous hemming and hawing you detect that something’s horribly wrong. Then the words, “I’m sorry, she didn’t make it.”
At first it doesn’t register. Then it clicks and your soul is pierced. The room begins to spin and rapidly close in. You sink deep and grab for something. But nothing on this earth will hold you up.
Nightmare becomes reality as you learn that your little girl has just bled to death – alone and afraid – on a cold slab at the local Planned Parenthood clinic, the victim of a botched abortion. She was driven there, unbeknownst to you, by the very guidance counselor to whom you speak.
You didn’t even know she was pregnant. Like any child in her shoes, she was afraid to tell you – afraid of what you’d think – afraid you’d be ashamed. So she told someone else. Someone she trusted. Someone she thought cared for her. Someone who decidedly did not.
No one called. No one asked. No one said a word. They didn’t have to. They killed your baby and your baby’s baby in secret.
You feel powerless.
You should.
You are.
It was all legal, you see, and there’s not a thing you can do about it – nothing.
As Tuesday’s election fast approaches, you’re officially on notice. It’s not a question of whether similar scenarios will play out under an Obama presidency. It’s a question of how often and to what degree.
You needn’t wonder what the first official act of a President Obama will be. He’s told us. At a national Planned Parenthood fundraiser last year, Obama promised members of the billion dollar abortion industry their heart’s desire: Unfettered, unrestricted and federally enforced abortion on demand throughout all nine months of pregnancy.
“Well, the first thing I'd do as president,” an exuberant Obama told his fawning like-minded pro-aborts, “is sign the Freedom of Choice Act. That's the first thing that I'd do.”
What’s the Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA)? What would it do?
Well, contrary to Obama’s disingenuous rhetoric promising to “reduce the number of abortions,” FOCA would – with one stroke of the pen – remove every commonsense regulation placed on the abortion industry over the past three decades. Rather than reducing the already astronomical rate of abortions, the number would skyrocket ever-upward under an Obama presidency.
Among other things, FOCA would remove the right of parents to even know if their child is undergoing very risky and always deadly abortion surgery. Parental notification requirements in forty-four states would be wiped out. This means that some adult, any adult – even an adult sexual predator – could and would take his child victim to a sympathetic abortion clinic to destroy the human evidence of his crimes. All this, under the impenetrable veil of government-mandated secrecy.
But it gets worse yet. As the Family Research Council s Tom McCluskey illustrates, FOCA – Barack Obama’s much loved and most pressing piece of legislation – would additionally abolish the following:
* State abortion reporting requirements in all 50 states
(Again, it’s all about secrecy. This means that we would never again be able to track the number of abortions performed each year. Ask yourself what good could come from hiding such statistics.)
* Forty-four states' laws concerning parental involvement
(As previously mentioned, Mom and Dad, you don’t get to have a say – or even know – if some strange adult is killing your grandchild or risking the life of your own child through abortion surgery.)
* Forty-six states' conscience protection laws for individual health care providers
(Christian, Jewish and Muslim doctors – you will perform abortions or lose your license to practice medicine. “Kill the unborn child or find another line of work,” says the man who would be President.)
* Twenty-seven states' conscience protection laws for institutions
(Religious hospitals will be forced to perform abortions or shut down – period.)
* Thirty-eight states' bans on partial-birth abortion
(The horrific practice of partial-birth abortion, which is nothing short of infanticide, will once again be permitted and performed nationwide without restriction or encumbrance. This, despite the fact that the American Medical Association has held that PBA is never necessary under any circumstance.)
* Thirty-three states' laws requiring counseling before an abortion
* Twenty-eight states' laws requiring a waiting period before an abortion, and
* Sixteen states' laws concerning ultrasounds before an abortion
(Yet again, it’s all about secrecy. Informed consent is the enemy of Planned Parenthood. The abortion industry is all too aware that the more a woman knows about the baby she’s about to kill, the less likely she is to go through with it. An educated woman means dollars lost. That’s why the abortion industry so desperately wants the “informed” half of “informed consent” removed.)
So, to the Christian, the Muslim, the Jew – even to those who consider yourselves “commonsense pro-choicers,” I say this: Don’t be fooled. The man you’re considering for the highest office in the land is an abortion extremist among extremists. His own words, actions and policies reveal him as such.
Under a President Obama, true freedoms will be trampled, parental rights will be taken, and millions of lives will be lost. As demonstrated, to cast a vote for Barack Obama is to be complicit in the trampling of those freedoms, the taking of those rights, and the loss of that life.
That’s not a burden my conscience can bear.
What about you?
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Matt Barber (jmattbarber@comcast.net) is Director of Cultural Affairs with both Liberty Counsel and Liberty Alliance Action and Associate Dean with Liberty University School of Law. Send comments to Matt at jmattbarber@comcast.net. (This information is provided for identification purposes only.)
Matt does such good work - definitely gets your attention.
Good article. Thanks for posting. In campaigns for parental consent laws, I would like to see the rights of parents be emphasized more.
That is what us Mom’s are afraid of, Obama’s liberal muslim view of abortion. Thank you Matt
Excellent article.
Dear God! Protect the innocents. We beg You, LORD.
Pimps, and abortion clinics alike could streamline the whole business, create efficient, rapid whore maintenance program packages, eliminate the need for costly birth control and morning after pills.
For instance, an Obama-care Pimp special deluxe plan could combine a monthly checkup, on the spot abortion if a pregnancy is detected, and automatic treatment of STD'S. Group rates as low as 29.99/ month all required meds included, with Major Medical Problems Plus™ included, at taxpayers expense!
/s (I think)
Interesting...So Obama’s first act as POTUS would be to legalize murder...what a no good bum..He is totally unfit to be the President of the USA and we hope Americans are finally waking up to that realization...
This is happening already at Planned Parenthood abortion centers around the country. And politicians like Sebelius are covering up for them.
Planned Parenthood has been responsible for NUMEROUS abortions of minor girls, who were brought in by their boyfriends. They have covered up numerous cases of statutory rape, although laws in most states require them to report it.
There are a number of lawsuits bringing this out. It’s very hard, because PP has a ton of money, a ton of lawyers, and has bought a lot of prosecutors and politicians.
But if Obama gets in, he will see to it that statutory rape and abortion of underage girls is no longer even technically a crime. And he will see to it that kids start getting sex education in kindergarten.
That will include our own children and grandchildren, and those of all Americans. Don’t think you can escape it by homeschooling, because Obama will predictably outlaw home schooling as a favor to the unions.
Abortion will be legal. Rape will be legal. Home schooling will be illegal. Because he can.
I’m very sorry to hear it. I’ve been supporting several organizations who are trying to end these nightmares for many years, but it’s been an uphill battle. If Obama wins, that battle will be lost.
“If Obama wins, that battle will be lost.”
I know, and that has been my main focus this election. He really is a POS.
Oh dear God, my prayers are with you. I have NEVER fought so hard to protect those who need our unfailing prayers and efforts. Please know that you are in my heart for your loss, and know that with every breath I have, I am fighting so it never happens to another. I am only so sorry that all of our efforts were not enough to save yours. :( peace on you.
Thank you. Let’s us all keep up the fight for those who cannot fight.
I’m so sorry, papasmurf. I know I would be tempted to do something painful to the “guidance” counselor which wouldn’t be really right - I’m sad to say. Our only hope is prayer. Governor Palin wants to encourage a culture of life and this Obama creature wants to CREATE a worse culture of death, pushing it back to the days of the Clintons. I pray for you to be comforted. Life sometimes seems hard, but we have to try. We love our children and are most hurt through them. Your daughter was a victim and never forget that truth.
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I’m so sorry, papasmurf.
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