Barack Obama Promotes Abortion, Slams Abstinence in Iowa Speech

LifeNews.com ^ | October 8, 2007 | Steven Ertelt

[monomaniac]

by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
October 8, 2007

Des Moines, IA (LifeNews.com) -- Campaigning in Iowa over the weekend, pro-abortion presidential candidate Barack Obama attempted to moderate his views on abortion and abstinence education. However, he made it clear he has no interest in limiting or reducing abortions and his pro-abstinence stance is tempered by his backing of sexual education.

Speaking in the northeast town of New Hampton late Friday, Obama responded to a question in a forum from a Denver resident in the first primary state for a family reunion.

The questioner asked Obama to reconcile how society gets upset at someone like Michael Vick, the football player who caused a furor by betting on dog fights, and seems unconcerned by the tremendous loss of human life from abortions.

"What would you do about that and what's happening in our society when people can’t seem to see this contradiction?” the questioner asked.

According to a New York Times report, Obama told the audience that the issue abortion isn't ever going to go away and said people wrestle with the debate between acknowledging the humanity of the unborn child and wanting to help women.

However, ultimately, Obama said abortion must remain legal despite the loss of human life.

"A lot of people have arrived in the view that I’ve arrived at, which is that there is a moral implication to these issues, but that the women involved are in the best position to make that determination," he said.

He also rejected the comparison between abortion and Michael Vick's actions.

"I reject a comparison between a woman struggling with these issues and Michael Vick fighting dogs for sport. I don’t think that’s sort of how people perceive it," Obama said.

The Times said Obama made it clear that there is an impasse on the issue of abortion.

“Now, this is one of those areas – again, I think it’s important to be honest – where I don’t think you’re ever going to get a complete agreement on this issue. If you believe that life begins at conception, then I can’t change your mind," he said.

He also indicated he favored some limits on late-term abortions, despite his stance against the partial-birth abortion ban.

"I think there is a large agreement, for example, that late-term abortions are really problematic and there should be a regulation," he said, though qualifying that his support for late-term limits includes health exceptions that render such limits meaningless.

Obama told the audience that people on both sides of the abortion debate should find agreement on preventing unwanted pregnancies, but he acknowledged he doesn't support abstinence education, a method to do that.

“I’m all for education for our young people, encouraging abstinence until marriage, but I also believe that young people do things regardless of what their parents tell them to do and I don’t want my daughters ending up in really difficult situations because I didn’t communicate to them, how to protect themselves if they make a mistake," he said.

[johniegrad]

despite his stance against the partial-birth abortion ban.

You gotta be kiddin' me. This guy voted for this type of abortion in Illinois on several occasions.

[the invisib1e hand]

“I’m all for education for our young people, encouraging abstinence until marriage, but I also believe that young people do things regardless of what their parents tell them to do and I don’t want my daughters ending up in really difficult situations because I didn’t communicate to them, how to protect themselves if they make a mistake," he said.

The man who spoke these words is either a spineless pussy or he's diabolical charlatan.

[weegee]

“Now, this is one of those areas – again, I think it’s important to be honest – where I don’t think you’re ever going to get a complete agreement on this issue. If you believe that life begins at conception, then I can’t change your mind," he said.

Osama Obama is lying. He says in this same Q&A that it IS the loss of a life. He says that the (selfish) interests of the mother win out. And slave owners had their property rights to consider. < /sarcasm >

[originalbuckeye]

Nah, he’s just learned the typical Dem strategery of straddling every issue so that both sides think you are with them. I sure hope the Presidential Debates tie down the Dem (likely Hillary!) to positions that will alienate enough voters so that we (the Pubbies) can be victorious.

[Dionysiusdecordealcis]

Just us chilluns here, busy building the Kingdom of Heaven on earth, folks. Just friendlly ole Barry Obama, pious and devout, lover of God and neighbor, busy building the Kingdom. No need to get all riled up folks, aw shucks, I din’t really mean it, when I singlehandedly buried that Illinois bill that would have outlawed letting “accidentally” born babies (sort of an abortion-malfunction, you might say) die naked and gasping for breath in the dirty-laundry hamper. No sirree Bob, just little ole BarryO here, being a good little boy, building the kingdom, getting religion, singing the songs of Zion, don’t you pay me and my budds no heed, just us homies butchering babies for the kingdom . . .

Signed, Barry Empty-Suit Osamabama

[weegee]

What is the difficult situation he’s referring to here?

Getting an abortion?
Becoming an unwed mother?

If children don’t listen to their parents, what is he going to communicate to them that will persuade them to wait until marriage or use birth control?

[DakotaRed]

Today, he says, “abortion must remain legal despite the loss of human life.”

Yesterday he said, “I just want all of you to pray that I can be an instrument of God...” And, “I am confident that we can create a Kingdom right here on Earth.”

Not too sure what sort of Kingdom he intends to create.

[caisson71]

Or, he’s a Dimocrap running for the highest office in the land where one cannot have principles to defend.

[DGHoodini]

Tsk, Tsk...One amateurish spouting of uninformed positions after another.

Gee Mr “Blessing”...Howw do you reckon God’s will on Earth, with the slaughter of his not yet born innocents?

Would that be the way you reckoned it was smart to attack
Blackwater without the facts, or without being in position to know what they are doing for the US war effort? Do you even realise that your campaign trail opportunism, is going to have you eating crow, if you are eventually elected, and then have to have the responsability of being Commander in Chief, resting solely on your shoulders?

As I have said all along Mr Obama...You don’t have a clue as to what you need to know to be Presikdent...uch less an effective one. And our enemies know it, and will test you sorely. You think your pudlic appearances are unpleasant??

Youm have no clue what you would be in for...from even your
domestic detractors. ...and when US bases and embassies start blowing up all around the world, on your watch...What will you do then...???

[onedoug]

He’s an islamist.

[ought-six]

This guy is nothing but a stunted turnip.

[Fester Chugabrew]

I don’t think that’s sort of how people perceive it," Obama said.

Guess what, Mr. Obama. Unborn children are not interested in your thoughts. They just want to live freely, like you.

[EternalVigilance]

I'm amazed how much evil can be squeezed into one empty suit.

[Fester Chugabrew]

. . . either a spineless pussy or he's diabolical charlatan.

Try both.

[Calvin Locke]

The problem is that people that know better will support him.

[jimt]

The title of this article doesn’t remotely match the tenor of the Obama quotes.

LifeNews should try for “a little less heat and a little more light”.