The White House website has now been updated, including a section on "Reproductive Choice"
Supports a Woman's Right to Choose: President Obama understands that abortion is a divisive issue, and respects those who disagree with him. However, he has been a consistent champion of reproductive choice and will make preserving women's rights under Roe v. Wade a priority in his Adminstration. He opposes any constitutional amendment to overturn the Supreme Court's decision in that case.In case you haven't already seen it, here is a clever and rather pointed video from Catholic Vote:
Preventing Unintended Pregnancy: President Obama was an original co-sponsor of legislation to expand access to contraception, health information, and preventive services to help reduce unintended pregnancies. Introduced in January 2007, the Prevention First Act will increase funding for family planning and comprehensive sex education that teaches both abstinence and safe sex methods. The Act will also end insurance discrimination against contraception, improve awareness about emergency contraception, and provide compassionate assistance to rape victims.
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Will any more people die as a result of Obama's lifting of the ban on federal funding of abortion-providers abroad than would have died as result of John McCain's Bush-like poverty inducement (poverty being far and away the largest cause of death before as well as after birth - hopelessly poor women have abortions) and never-ending war (with, among so much else, all the abortions that follow all the rapes and prostitution)?
Obama, McCain and Bush are all as anti-life as each other, just in different ways. Well, mostly different, anyway. McCain is in favour of scientifically worthless embryonic stem-cell "research".
Like all Republicans, Bush delivered absolutely no change whatever to the abortion law (consider that in "godless" Europe, the usual upper time limit is 12 weeks, several countries outlaw abortion entirely, and by far the most liberal laws are in Americanised Britain and those lands to the east still caught up in the cult of Ronald Reagan).
If such a change ever did come to pass, then the white Catholics (who have decided every Presidential Election since 1976) and the white Evangelicals would simply declare "Mission Accomplished" and go home to the Democratic Party. Last year, the white Catholics, at least, simply did so anyway. The white Evangelicals will be next.
Meanwhile, much bitching about Douglas Kmiec - the conservative law school professor, strong traditional Catholic, associate of the Evangelical-related Pepperdine University, and Obama supporter - and his possible appointment as Ambassador to the Holy See.
The price of his support? Why ever ever not? Whom would we want instead as Ambassador to the Holy See, and why? The Democratic Party has no shortage of Catholics decidedly lacking in traditionalist credentials or Evangelical connections.
Why yes, many more people will die of Obamas lifing of the ban on federal funding of abortions. Right now, a baby dies by abortion every second somewhere in the world, which is by far greater numbers than those who die in wars.
That number will most certainly increase because the poor will be pressured into having abortions because money given to their governments will hinge on a percentage of the very poor killing their own children in order to reduce the number of poor children. I mean, if they are dead, you don't have to feed them or give them vaccines or educate them, do you? It's not only immoral, but quite racist as most of the poor targeted will be Africans and South American Natives or Hispanics.
Most Western countries prosecute soldiers who commit rape, including the US. That it ever happens is horrible, but murdering the children for the crimes of the men who rape their mothers is hardly civilized or Christian behavior, either, whether their mothers are 'hopelessly poor' or not.
No US president can change existing law. He can only change policies about how money is spent or sign laws into place that Congress passes.
Roe V Wade made it legal to murder the unborn throughout all 12 months of pregnancy and even, in some cases after (a judge in Michigan ruled a baby wasn't actually 'born' until the placenta detached and was birthed - therefore drowning a breathing, crying baby whose placenta was attached was not 'murder')
The president cannot change this law by himself, which was based on questionable interpretation of the Constitution and psuedo-science and twisted philosophy. Congress would have to make a federal law establishing any changes in limiting the age at which a baby could be aborted and the Supreme Court would be immediately called upon to rule it valid or invalid via their interpretation of the Constitution. If Bush had changed it, he would have been impeached and possibly forced to resign for overstepping his executive authority. Some limits, the Court ruled, can be enacted by states, though.
(The judges on the Supreme Court should have all been impeached and forced to resign in 1970 for violating the Constitution, but the cowards in Congress would not do that back then because of the outright lies packaged as facts to entice the court to rule that way.)
President Bush did limit abortions in the only way he legally could, and he refused to fund embroyonic stem cell research and other "create 'em and kill 'em" policies. Only Congress can pass laws and change existing ones, such as banning the heinous partial-birth abortions (which Bush signed, did he not?) There are some pro-abortion Republicans, but most of them in office are not. Surprisingly, there are also some prolife Democrats, but most of them in office are not.
When the court ruled that some limits on abortion can be enacted, many states enacted those permitted. Even then, no state can ban them outright even if the state has the consent of the people of that state. The fedearal law trumps state law.
Obama and the Democrat leadership in Congress have indicated that they wish to lift ALL limits on ALL abortions for ALL states, including those laws for minor children and parental consent, and for all 12 months (and this threat to unborn life is called Freedom of Choice Act or FOCA). These Democrats also want to force doctors and hospitals who are opposed to abortions to perform them and force all doctors to offer 'suicide drugs' to patients who are terminally ill.
As for the 'never ending war', I imagine that if the UN would serve its purpose instead of worsening things with inept or corrupt policies and placing of human rights violating nations in charge of protecting human rights and would STOP funding and coddling or ignoring corrupt dictators and warlords, we wouldn't have airplanes flown into skyscrapers and groups like al-Quaida would not have host countries, 'ethnic cleansing' wouldn't last but a day, terrorists wouldn't invade large hotels and savage innocent people, and men like Saddam Hussein and his sons wouldn't be able to keep their rape rooms/torture chambers and there would be few mass graves of groups like the Kurds.
And if the Bishops got down to the business of vigorously spreading the Gospel and took more seriously the cause of Life and spent more time teaching our faith and less for photo ops and making nice-nice to pro-death politicians; and all priests and laity fasted and did penance and prayed the Rosary, worked for the cause of life and used their votes more carefully - perhaps, just perhaps...
...there would be no need for wars at all.
David, spoken like one with "Bush Derangement Syndrome." Or a euroleftist at best who hasn't a clue. You are ignorant (at best) when you say Bush delivered "no change whatsoever." Try: forbade federal funding ofabortion, appointed two strict constructionist supreme court justices who aren't going to find new aboriton rights, and refused to federally fund embryonic stem cell research. Apparently you are comletely clueless that presidents don't MAKE legislation, they SIGN legislation. But that's par for the course for the Donkey party supporters. Bush was hampered by the Supremce court Roe v. Wade decision, as has been every prolife president since then. It's going to require a constutional amendment to outlaw it, the freaking Warren Court gave us virtual abortion on demand. the Congress did manage to pass a bill to prohibit partial birth abortions, which Bush gladly signed and pushed for. Barry Nobama and his ilk would never have done such a thing. Mobasa Boy is pushing for FOCA...a "Freedom of Choice" act which is no choice at all, other than to march in lockstep with abortionists. Good luck to Catholic hospitals who won't perform abortions or refer them. Good luck to OBGYNs.
I'm not always happy with the Republican PArty, particularly the "republicans in name only" but the Dummycrat party will NEVER be my home. Deceitful and rotten to the core from Joe "never met planned parenthood money I didn't like" Biden to Nancy "of course I'm catholic, but go ahead and abort your baby" Pelose, to Ted "I didn't mean to drown Mary Jo" Kennedy. Rotten one and all. Bush was far more "Catholic" than any of those tools of Satan. And he's a far better Christian than Barry "My pastor is a racist" Nobama will ever be.
I wonder if Obama's mother would have aborted him had she had the choice of 'womens health' programmes available today?
Please consider the following two situations -
The father is sick with sniffles, the mother has TB. They have 4 children. The first is blind, the second is dead. The third is deaf and the fourth has TB. The mother finds she is pregnant again. Given the extreme situation, would you recommend abortion? If yes we would say Bye bye Beethoven.
A teenage girl is pregnant. She is not married. Her fiancee is not the father of the baby, and he is very upset. Would you recommend an abortion? If yes, we would have aborted Jesus Christ!
Still sore? Well, get used to it.
"forbade federal funding of abortion"
Goes back to a law passed by Democratic Congress and signed by Jimmy Carter.
"appointed two strict constructionist supreme court justices"
Who have done nothing, having been appointed to do nothing, and thus to keep the GOP in existence.
"refused to federally fund embryonic stem cell research"
Supported by McCain, so it wouldn't have mattered who won last year.
And so one could go on.
Huge numbers voted Democrat last year because they wanted their country back. The name of that country is America.
She is the country that long led the world in protecting high-wage, high-skilled, high-status jobs both against the exportation of that labour to un-unionised, child-exploiting sweatshops, and against the importation of those sweatshops themselves.
And she is the country that could until very recently say that she led the world in that she “did not seek for monsters to destroy”.
For she is the country of big municipal government, of strong unions whose every red cent in political donations buys something specific, of very high levels of co-operative membership, of housing co-operatives even for the upper middle classes, of small farmers who own their own land, and of the pioneering of Keynesianism in practice.
At the same time, those same voters made it clear at exactly the same polls that (in Florida and California) they wanted back the country where marriage only ever means one man and one woman, that (in Colorado) they wanted back the country that does not permit legal discrimination against working-class white men, and (in Missouri and Ohio) that they wanted to preserve the country where gambling is not deregulated.
The name of that country is America, too.
The betrayal of those voters by Obama where appointments are concerned has already cost the Democrats a Senate seat in Georgia (where the third-placed candidate was a morally and socially conservative economic patriot and foreign policy realist), and thus a filibuster-proof Senate majority.
Midterm meltdown awaits unless both Obama and the Congressional Democrats wake up to these realities.
As Obama, at least, appears to be doing. He has appointed the pro-life Governor Tim Kaine of Virginia to chair the Democratic National Committee. He seems on course to appoint Professor Kmiec as Ambassador to the Holy See.
Having given Obama his job (as they have given every President his job since 1976), Catholics should now come up with 20 things that must not happen (not must, but must not) if he expects them to consider him for re-appointment when his fixed-term contract expires.
Those lines in the sand would after all be widely shared, both on the Right with regard to pro-life and pro-family (and, among the paleocons, anti-war) issues, and on the Left with regard to pro-worker and anti-war issues.
Five of each would be more than welcome, and are more than necessary.
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