So now what?

With Barack Obama winning the Presidential election, the pro-life movement faces some new challenges. President-Elect Obama is strongly and unabashedly pro-abortion. He has made this clear throughout his campaign for President. I want to point out some of his quotes and why they are very troubling.

In the 2007 South Carolina Democratic Primary debate, Obama was ask this question: "What is your view on the decision on partial-birth abortion and your reaction to most of the public agreeing with the court's holding?" Part of his response was to say:

I think that most Americans recognize that this is a profoundly difficult issue for the women and families who make these decisions...But the broader issue here is: Do women have the right to make these profoundly difficult decisions? And I trust them to do it.

So does that give me the right to decide when I can shoot someone in self-defense? Can I shoot the person who tries to attack me with a pair of sissors? Can I shoot the thief from half a block away when I see him climbing out of the window with my TV? Can I shoot the person on the subway who I think may steal my wallet? The law say the none of these cases are grounds for self-defense but by analogy Obama's philosophy would make all these justifiable self-defense if I get to choose whether they are or not.

When speaking to Planned Parenthoodin July 2007, Obama made the following statement:
I put Roe at the center of my lesson plan on reproductive freedom when I taught Constitutional Law. Not simply as a case about privacy but as part of the broader struggle for women’s equality.

Women's equality of what? The need for equality infers that a person is prevented from doing something that another person is able to do. For example, equal rights of an African American to the same education as others. A woman's right to vote is another example. What equality is being denied here? What is a man able to do with regards to an abortion that a woman is not able to do? The whole concept of abortion promoting women's equality is absurd.

One of the most disturbing comments President-Elect Obama made during his campaign was in response to a question about when life begins. His response was as follows:

This is something that I have not come to a firm resolution on. I think it's very hard to know what that means, when life begins. Is it when a cell separates? Is it when the soul stirs? So I don't presume to know the answer to that question.

If you do not know when life begins how can you determine at what point is an abortion murder? If you do not know when life begins would it not make sense to error on the side of caution knowing that conception is the absolute starting point of a pregnancy?

The last quote I want to mention is regarding the Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA). Briefly, FOCA is a extremely radical piece of legislation that would make null ANY abortion restriction legislation that has been passed, both at the federal and state level, since the legalization of Roe v. Wade. His quote was simply: "The first thing I'd do as president is sign the Freedom of Choice Act." This legislation is so broad in eliminating restrictions to abortion that I want to spend the next couple of blogs focusing on this radical and horrendous legislation.

We face many challenges in the coming years to the Culture of Life. We have a responsibility to continue to preach the Gospel of Life and to make our voices heard to our government that abortion is immoral and wrong. Until next time...God bless.

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