Posted on 07/07/2009 10:15:39 AM PDT by FromLori
President Obama has a masterful ability to convince people he is their friend even while he attacks them. This talent was on display last Thursday July 2, when the President spoke to members of the Catholic press about conscience rights for pro-life doctors.
Obama seems to be persuading even pro-life Catholics that he supports "robust" conscience rights. The theologically conservative National Catholic Register said it was "most noteworthy" that the President "dispell[ed] … the expectation of the worst regarding conscience clauses."
Yet one of Obama's first actions was to repeal basic rules protecting conscience. Obama dismissed that action as an unfortunate misunderstanding, causing people to think "my position may appear unclear." What really happened with the repealed conscience rule shows that Obama's position against conscience is crystal clear.
In the wake of Roe v. Wade, Congress began passing statutes protecting doctors from being forced to participate in abortion. Pro-choice legislators like Obama's Illinois predecessor Senator Adlai Stevenson III agreed that even if abortion is legal, religious freedom requires that doctors never be compelled to participate. The statutes are straightforward: no recipient of certain federal funds may discriminate against a health provider for refusing to participate in abortion. The statutes also explicitly protect activities such as sterilization, and in some cases they protect any religious belief (see 42 U.S.C. § 300a-7(c)).
But these statutes were rarely enforced. In recent years the abortion industry solidified abortion as a right but has faced fewer providers. So it began active persecution of pro-life doctors.
In 2007 the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists declared that Ob/Gyns must perform abortions or practice near abortionists, and must refer women to them. Obama's core constituency on this issue is insistent: "Qualms about abortion, sterilization, and birth control? Do not practice women's health."
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There’s an old saw about how diplomacy means the art of telling your opponent to go to hell in such a way that he looks forward to the trip.
Well, Zero is quite the diplomat.
Hussein is Clinton on steroids when it comes to “truth”. Truth is whatever is true at the moment for a man like Hussein. Expediency is the ruling principle and everything is subordinated to that. He will get away with this for a limited time (it is already wearing thin) and he knows this which is why the destruction of our constitutional republic is proceeding at such a rapid pace. All he needs to complete the wreck is the passage of the cap-and-tax bill and “health care reform” and his work is done.
Let me, slightly, be a devil’s advocate here. Why is it necessary that Obama tell his agencies to obey the law? Shouldn’t they know already to do so? And if they don’t, is there nobody with standing to sue them to follow the law?
Obama is just a BALD FACED LIAR.
He has far surpassed clintoon and hiLIARy.
Clintoon would ‘parse’ words so that he was technically not lying.
Obama just doesn’t care, he just outright tells lies -because he knows the presstitutes will never call him on it.
Bump to that. There is no truth in him.
There is a simple solution to this. When Obama opens his mouth, turn down the volume or cover your ears if you are too weak willed not to fall for his smooth voice and simply watch what he does, not what he says.
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