This is just a quick post to inform some of you about Senator Obama’s views on abortion, views that have apparently failed to make it into much of the national media.
On March 12, 2003 Obama was chair of the Illinois State Health and Human Services Committee, which was asked to vote on a bill designed to stop abortion clinics putting live babies on the shelf and waiting for them to die. That’s right – live babies! Babies that had been delivered as a result of botched abortion, but were fully formed and functioning normally, were being placed in closets and allowed to die through neglect. Obama voted against making this practice illegal!
Since then, he has reportedly promised Family Planning that, should he be elected president, he will do whatever is in his power to re-introduce partial-birth abortion as a legal option, overturning the current ban on this barbaric practice. For those of you who are unfamiliar with what partial-birth abortion actually is, take 10 seconds and click here. NSFW. This procedure is usually carried out AFTER 20 weeks of gestation (4.5 months), even up to seven or eight months!
Recent figures (1998) found that babies born prematurely at 24 weeks have odds of survival at 58 per cent, rising to 98 per cent or more by the time the baby reaches 28 to 30 weeks gestation (these statistics will continue to improve as neonatal care develops). Essentially, this procedure is (in many cases) destroying babies that have not just the ‘potential’ for life, but could actually be fully delivered (all that’s not being delivered is the head) and grow up normal, healthy babies. Obama wants to reintroduce this!
Please, any Americans who read this, don’t vote for Obama – a vote for him is a vote for the destruction of real lives!
2 comments:
This is far more political than we usually get, but its so important that I can't imagine not posting it.
"Left wing, right wing, I'm no turkey," as Gerard Depardieu's character says in Green Card.
Right, Left, Jesus said to follow the straight and narrow, and not go right or left; I will vote for whoever can do the job well, usually.
Unfortunately, the system in its entirety seems to be broken now. You only have two choices really. Not even sure if there is still a "write in" space anymore. You just get to vote for one or the other, and if its not a general election, you only get the party choices.
The thing is, I am not sure either one of the current candidates can do this job. For VASTLY different reasons, mind you. But for sure, ANYONE who supports partial-birth abortions, and in particular "shelf-cide," is not getting my vote. This is a subject well close to my heart, and I can tell you truly, abortion is not a good thing. (Thats putting it lightly). Whatever you may think of abortion, partial-birth abortion is worse. If you don't know what it is, check the link that DaveE posted; but be forewarned, you may get sick. Its murder, plain and simple.
There is a lot of politics that goes into this - mostly concerning people legislating from the bench, e.g. Rowe vs Wade (since when do Judges make laws?) The proper branches of government are no longer in their respective boxes and cannot keep one another in check anymore. The Constitution may be a living document, but that doesn't mean that it is still changing. If its still changing and means a new thing to each new generation, then it doesn't mean anything! Murder is murder no matter the age.
Freedom of Speech and Freedom of the Press don't mean freedom from responsibility for your words or actions. It doesn't mean freedom to print filth for "adults." Why have rapes gone up? Because men walking around (who, yes, should be able to control themselves) are none the less bombarded with bare women at the magazine rack and can't get "it" out of their heads. Rapes go up, women get disgusted at all men, don't want children from tragedy and abortions go up.
Who thinks our media needs to be more responsible? Who thinks that responsibility needs to start at home and then extend to the voting booth?
I need to make something clear - I find it difficult to say something about abortion without offering support for single mothers, violated women and abandoned children. Not just as a "Christian whole," but I mean personally. Isaiah 58:9,10 'Don't point your finger, but help the oppressed' (paraphrased) I find particularly apropos here.
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