Posted on 10/28/2008 4:11:05 PM PDT by wagglebee
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- A leading pro-life group that works with state legislators to pass laws that reduce abortions is reminding voters that presidential candidate Barack Obama wants all of those laws overturned. Americans United for Life says Obama's position will increase abortions after they've dropped to historic lows.
The organization is releasing an open letter to newspapers across the battleground state of Ohio questioning why Obama favors a Congressional bill, the so-called Freedom of Choice Act, that would overturn every limit on abortion.
"Many people still don't even know about this radical bill and Obama has promised Planned Parenthood it would be his first priority in the White House," AUL president Charmaine Yoest told LifeNews.com on Tuesday.
Sen. Obama last year promised the national Planned Parenthood abortion business, "The first thing I'd do as President is sign the Freedom of Choice Act."
John McCain opposes the legislation and would veto it as president.
Yoest says FOCA would wipe away every restriction on abortion nationwide, and prevent enactment of future protective measures like common-sense parental involvement laws and prohibitions on partial birth abortion.
The letter specifically focuses on how the Obama-backed legislation would overturn parental notification and consent laws and leave parents in the dark about their minor daughters having an abortion.
AUL's letter tells the story of a 14-year-old girl from Cincinnati who became pregnant by her 22-year-old soccer coach.
"Planned Parenthood gave her an abortion after turning a blind eye when the soccer coach pretended to be a family member for the parental notification requirements," Yoest said.
AUL explains that the FOCA bill would make unlimited abortions the national law and overturn state laws such as informed consent requirements, bans on taxpayer-funding of abortion and conscience protections for pro-life doctors, nurses, and other medical professionals.
AUL says having a Congress and White House controlled by abortion advocates makes it easier for the bill to become law.
"With a single stroke of the pen, the Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA) would establish the right to abortion as a fundamental right (like the right to free speech) and wipe away every restriction on abortion nationwide," the group adds.
Twenty senators (including Obama) and 109 U.S. Representatives have co-sponsored the bill.
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“Lest we forget at least an over-the-shoulder acknowledgment to the very first radical from all our legends, mythology, and history (and who is to know where mythology leaves off and history begins — or which is which), the first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom – Lucifer.”
IF Obama gets elected, he’ll not only be POTUS and CIC, he’ll be the single top abortion promoter in America today.
On top of that, Obama will be sign off on Barney Frank’s call for a 25% cut in national defense spending. Add to that higher taxes and more government welfare state spending and what you have is a complete reversal of the Reagan agenda.
Not bad for a community organizer working under the most corrupt political machine in the nation.
NEWSMAX.com: "EXPECT FEWER LIBERTIES IF OBAMA WINS" by David Limbaugh (COMMENTARY SNIPPET: "I am sincerely worried that if Obama wins, the checks and balances incorporated into our Constitution may not be enough to prevent a radical and irreversible diminution of our individual liberties because a confluence of factors has emerged to create a climate conducive to fundamental change. These are the factors:") (October 28, 2008, 8:40 am)
The Resistance will continue the battle.
I find obama repulsive, but none more than his stance on abortion/choice when his socialist-big-government has to control everything, thus giving you NO choice in other matters of your life. Given that it would seem that he should be pro-life, especially because he needs all the future tax payers to pay for his entitlement plans.
I have a link to the video: If you hit on the link please also hit “digg it” It will push it up on the search.
http://digg.com/2008_us_elections/Obama_promises_to_overturn_the_partial_birth_abortion_ban
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