Posted on 03/31/2008 12:50:34 PM PDT by HD1200
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Barack Obama is drawing gasps from pro-life advocates today over comments he made during a campaign stop in Pennsylvania over the weekend. The leading Democratic presidential candidate appeared to back a potential decision by his daughters to seek an abortion saying he wouldn't "punish" them with a baby. Obama's comments came in the context of off-the-cuff remarks addressing the issue of AIDS. (see them here) "When it comes specifically to HIV/AIDS, the most important prevention is education, which should include -- which should include abstinence education and teaching the children -- teaching children, you know, that sex is not something casual," he said. "But it should also include -- it should also include other, you know, information about contraception because, look, I've got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old," he added. "I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby," Obama said.
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I don’t favor abortion, but I believe his DNA should be removed from the gene pool.
So when do we get to see a book of stupid quotes, maybe titled something like, “Obama-Rangs” in the MSM? (For those of you who are easily offended or live in Boulder, Colorado, that is a wordplay on the word Boomerang.)
What a moron, even if that’s what he believes.
Words fail me.
No, his parents were blessed with him, for a short while at least. America is being punished by him. We’re a “typical white nation”
“But it should also include — it should also include other, you know, information about contraception because, look, I’ve got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old,” he added.
“I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby,” Obama said.”
Obama has a record of supporting abortion, but the statements above do not necessarily mean he is crassly supporting abortions for his daughters if they got pregnant.
As I read the article (and his statements could have been taken out of context by the author of the aricle), he could simply be saying that if his daughters did not use contraception, they could potentially be punished with a baby- a baby that they would give birth to. In other words, he could be saying that he doesn’t want his daughters to be punished with a baby if they don’t know to use contraception.
Now I am probably one of the last people on earth who would defend Obama and he may have in fact meant that he would want his daughters to have an abortion. Just saying that based only on what is written in the article, it could mean what I indicate above.
So I can only imagine how some single moms today must feel in their daily struggles. Many of them dearly love their children. Their lives have just been complicated beyond what most people want to think about. Most people don't really care unless it is them.
It is easy to say the child should be put up for adoption especially if it isn't you or your own flesh and blood. Sometimes that is best. Often it does not work out for the child in the way some want to believe. A lot of it depends on the true motives of the adoptive parents.
My friend always felt like she was a replacement for their natural child who had died, never resolved it nor could find her biological mother. Another spent months in a mental health facility for the simple reason that her records were sealed, and she was not allowed to even know who her true parents were. One very close to my family who was adopted into an affluent home was very unhappy and ended up committing suicide. I can kind of understand how he felt knowing what his life was like, before he turned to drugs and alcohol to kill the pain. So there are two sides to it.
Could have been worse, his mother could have had a typical white woman..
And you say you are both Christians. ...I don't think so.
No, just punish the baby with a death sentence for the mother not being able to keep her legs together.
“So I guess your parents were punished with you.”
And the rest of us suffer.
Obama considers his own flesh & blood an unwanted `tumor’,
but he would defend a cop-killer like Mumia. Incredible.
Too bad his mother didn’t feel the same way.
Aren’t his daughters just about old enough to be sold into marriage in a muslim country?
Guess those values and morals went out the window. Adoption is always there Obama and the family adopting probably couldn't have children of their own for some reason.
There were times when I've stretched their patience quite thin... and it proved to be quite painful for me! However, I can rest assured that now that I have a baby on the way myself I will get to experience first-hand all of the "fun" that I put my parents through when I was a youngster.
My mom will be laughing all the way to the bank (as I know she will spoil our children rotten), and my dad, who sadly is no longer with us on Earth, will be laughing from where he is now. All I am praying for is that my wife's pregnancy is routine and uneventful.
Yeah. In the muslim world they’d almost be old maids.
Unbelieveable. Punished with a baby.
Yup - we’re just brainless animals, incapable of controlling ourselves.
If he was speaking of contraception and not abortion, still, it does not make him “Dad of the Year”. What kind of contraception and at what age?
Sure, I instill all that morals and values stuff into my kids and tell them not to steal or kill. But I provide them with a ski mask a good lawyer and a bullet proof vest just in case they decide to rob the local 7-11. I don’t want them punished with a prison sentence.
If his daughters did the same thing and got AIDS, would he want to “punish them with AIDS?” Of cource not, but that’s not an option.
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