Posted on 10/29/2008 7:52:25 AM PDT by truthandlife
arack Obama, the presumptive pro-abortion nominee of the Democratic Party, has plans to reward the allies that helped him topple Hillary Clinton from her throne by making total unrestricted abortion in the United States his number one priority as president.
In light of Obama's recently achieved status as the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, Focus on the Family's CitizenLink has decided to remind its supporters that almost one year has passed since Obama made his vows to the Planned Parenthood Action Fund that abortion would be the first priority of his administration.
"The first thing I'd do as president is sign the Freedom of Choice Act," Obama said in his July speech to abortion advocates worried about the increase of pro-life legislation at the state level.
The Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA) is legislation Obama has co-sponsored along with 18 other senators that would annihilate every single state law limiting or regulating abortion, including the federal ban on partial birth abortion.
The 2007 version of FOCA proposed: "It is the policy of the United States that every woman has the fundamental right to choose to bear a child, to terminate a pregnancy prior to fetal viability, or to terminate a pregnancy after fetal viability when necessary to protect the life or health of the woman."
Obama made his remarks in a question-and-answer session after delivering a speech crystallizing for abortion advocates his deep-seated abortion philosophy and his belief that federal legislation will break pro-life resistance and end the national debate on abortion. (see transcript: http://lauraetch.googlepages.com/barackobamabeforeplannedpar...)
"I am absolutely convinced that culture wars are so nineties; their days are growing dark, it is time to turn the page," Obama said in July. "We want a new day here in America. We're tired about arguing about the same ole' stuff. And I am convinced we can win that argument."
Besides making abortion on demand a "fundamental right" throughout the United States, FOCA would effectively nullify informed consent laws, waiting periods, health safety regulations for abortion clinics, etc.
Furthermore, medical professionals and institutions that refused abortions also would lose legal protections. FOCA would expose individuals, organizations, and governments - including federal, state, and local government agencies - to costly civil actions for purported violations of the act.
"Thirty-five years after Roe, abortion supporters, like Senator Obama, are dismayed that abortion remains a divisive issue and that their radical agenda has not been submissively accepted by the American public," states Denise M. Burke, vice president of Americans United for Life.
"Rather than confronting legitimate issues concerning the availability and safety of abortion, they choose to blatantly ignore the concerns and interests of everyday Americans, as well as the growing evidence that abortion hurts women."
Hillary Clinton, once the longtime Democratic front-runner and anticipated abortion president, conceded defeat last Saturday to Obama, who captured the nomination from her after a long and bitter campaign.
Obama has won the crucial endorsement of abortion activist Frances Kissling, who broke from the ranks of other radical feminist leaders earlier this year to endorse Obama, saying Obama, not Clinton, would better use the bully pulpit of the presidency to accomplish their aims and end the culture wars over abortion.
Bambi is a serial killer
Madness.
Sen. Barack Obama’s July 17, 2007 Speech to Planned Parenthood (transcript): http://lauraetch.googlepages.com/barackobamabeforeplannedparenthoodaction
Video footage of Obama’s speech can be obtained here: http://www.imoneinamillion.com/
Can someone help me clarify this deficit in my understanding of history?: what exactly was the difference between the Heinrich Himmler and Josef Goebbels? I just want to make sure I’m comparing Obama to the correct murdering fascist.
What does this jerk have against infants?
They’re innocent.
Abortion is THE quintessential issue for the left and their spiritual leader, the lord of lies.
Abortion uses deadly force to make the most innocent human pay for, with its life, the consequences of the irresponsible sexual behavior choices of others.
Liberalism couldn’t be summed up in a more precise package.
Hello??
Iowa? Indiana? Rural Virginia? Redneck regions of Pennsylvania?
Can you hear me now???
I’d really like to hear the left’s justification for defunding abortion alternative centers.
The real reason is to increase the number of abortions, but I’d really like to hear their excuse.
This evil law will put pro-life doctors, nurses, and hospitals out of business. My family will lose our primary source of income. If you patronize Catholic or other pro-life doctors or hospitals, prepare yourself to say goodbye to them for good.
Personally, if this comes to pass, I am thinking seriously of emigration. If this country refuses to allow doctors who won't kill babies or support their killing to practice medicine, it is time to shake the dust from our feet.
Barack Obama blocked born alive infant protection legislation in Illinois and his action was truly based on cancelling the Constitutional human rights of alive newborns ... Obama endorsed murdering alive newborns as his means to protect Roe v Wade and empower his political capital.
Genocide in the womb as opposed to the gas chambers and ovens
in a way acceptable to the dumbed down masses.
Wondering what his mother would have done, had this been law when she was pregnant & unmarried, with HIM!
Abortion is part and parcel of the Luciferian rebellion.
Pro-life bump.
The opposite of pro life is pro death. I think we should start using this term instead of pro choice or pro abortion. Makes a stronger statement, and includes the Muslim call to kill all non believers. Also fits in with his pastor Jeremial Wright, and friend Farrakhan’s views regarding all white people.
More murder from the Party of Death. That’s the destination of Marxism, folks - DEATH.
How many different ‘the first thing I will do when elected president’ issues have we heard from O up until this point?
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