Posted on 06/23/2009 11:37:40 AM PDT by Pope Pius XII
ROME, June 18, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – According to the editor-in-chief of the Vatican’s quasi-official newspaper, US President Barack Obama in his pre-presidential voting record may have “made decisions that certainly cannot be defined as pro-life,” but this does not make him “pro-abortion.”
“He was, rather, pro-choice,” said L’Osservatore Romano’s Gian Maria Vian.
Vian told the National Review Online (NRO), “We have noticed that his entire program prior to his election was more radical than it is revealing itself to be now that he is president. So this is what I meant when I said he didn’t sound like a pro-abortion president.”
The interview comes amid growing concerns that the Vatican has been attempting to downplay the US president’s vehemently pro-abortion voting record and the pro-abortion record of his current administration. A series of articles in L’Osservatore Romano praising Barack Obama and soft-pedalling the opposition of the US bishops have been heavily criticised by pro-life leaders. But those concerns turned to shock when Vian recently told an interviewer, “It is my clear conviction: Obama is not a pro-abortion president.”
Idiot.
What Obama and Michelle Believe re Aborted Babies Born Alive
FR POSTED http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2253212/posts?page=6
In February 2004, US Senate candidate Barack Obama's wife, Michelle, sent a fund-raising letter with the "alarming news" that "right-wing politicians" had passed a law (prohibiting doctors from stabbing half-born babies in the neck with scissors, suctioning out their brains and crushing their skulls).
Michelle Obama called partial-birth abortion "a legitimate medical procedure. " She urged supporters to pay $150 to attend a fund-raising luncheon for her husband, who she promised would fight against "cynical ploy[s]" to stop it.
BACKGROUND Legislation was presented on the federal level and in various states called the Born Alive Infants Protection Act. It stated all live-born babies were guaranteed the same constitutional right to equal protection, whether or not they were wanted. BAIPA sailed through the U.S. Senate by unanimous vote. Even Sens. Clinton, Kennedy and Kerry agreed a mother's right to "choose" stopped at her baby's delivery. The bill also passed overwhelmingly in the House. NARAL went neutral on it. Abortion enthusiasts publicly agreed that fighting BAIPA would appear extreme. President Bush signed BAIPA into law in 2002.
But in Illinois, the state version of BAIPA repeatedly failed, thanks in large part to then-state Sen. Barack Obama. Obama worried aloud that legislation protecting live aborted babies might infringe on women's rights or abortionists' rights.
In 2003, as chairman of the next Senate committee to which BAIPA was sent, Obama stopped it from even getting a hearing, shelving it to die much like babies were still being shelved to die in Illinois hospitals and abortion clinics.
BAIPA passed in 2005.........after Obama left.
“Obama’s not Pro-Abortion, He’s Just “Pro-Choice”: L’Osservatore Romano Editor”
No. Actually, he’s anti-life. Let’s call it for what it is.
Just another example showing this leftist rag of a paper does not represent “The Vatican’
This editor should be fired.
I doubt that the Pope is even aware of how goofy his employees have become.
Baloney. “Pro-choice” is just an euphemism for pro-abortion.
Pro-choice is just the "nice" way to say pro-infanticide.
Just like "gay" is more palatable the homosexual, and many other word games used to soften reality.
What would someone be called if they just said they were leaving it up to the mother?
What would someone be called if they just wanted to “leave” child abuse “up to the mother”?
What.Something is in the wind.
If this nation ever returns to moral sanity, President Obortion will be remembered first and foremost, IMO, for his solid stance for the killing of babies.
Accepting the killing of babies as little more than a practical decision on the part of the mother is the key to loss of clarity on all other matters of life and decency.
It is a contradiction and shear nonsense to claim to stand for "social justice" and not stand for the sanctity of life.
You’re right about Hitler not being anti-Jew, he wasn’t pro-dead Jew either though. He just wanted to get as much out of them as possible.
This is why middle eastern countries like Iran say there was no Holocaust. They would create a real Holocaust.
I don’t understand how that applies to my question. I’m trying to find out if someone is pro-life or pro-abortion, if they leave the decision up to the mother.
What do you call someone whose reaction to a child being killed by an abusive mother is that they wanted to "leave that decision up to the mother"?
Pro choice = the choice to kill.
Pro life = the choice not to kill.
I think it should be clear by now that L’Osservatore Romano is really not a friend of the Church.
Pro death.
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