President Obama’s abortion statement
by Chuck Donovan
January 22, 2009
President Obama released his first official statement on abortion as an occupant of the Oval Office today:
On the 36th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, we are reminded that this decision not only protects women’s health and reproductive freedom, but stands for a broader principle: that government should not intrude on our most private family matters. I remain committed to protecting a woman’s right to choose.
While this is a sensitive and often divisive issue, no matter what our views, we are united in our determination to prevent unintended pregnancies, reduce the need for abortion, and support women and families in the choices they make. To accomplish these goals, we must work to find common ground to expand access to affordable contraception, accurate health information, and preventative services.
On this anniversary, we must also recommit ourselves more broadly to ensuring that our daughters have the same rights and opportunities as our sons: the chance to attain a world-class education; to have fulfilling careers in any industry; to be treated fairly and paid equally for their work; and to have no limits on their dreams. That is what I want for women everywhere
On first blush, it is nothing new – it follows a pattern in these statements from defenders of Roe v. Wade and its progeny in that it: 1) makes no effort to establish that the Supreme Court was and is properly vested with the power to create and enforce such a “right”; 2) uses the catchphrase “right to choose” without specifying what is being chosen, why there is a right to it, and especially why there is a right to choose something that should not be chosen so often; and 3) links this spurious right with things that most Americans do agree are right and good, particularly equal opportunity for women.
The statement’s “equality” language is meant to dress a mean act of destruction with the high fashion of principle. The reality of tension and conflict between men and women at all levels is real and serious, within every venue of life. As to why the ability to abandon the life the two sexes have created to the tender mercies of the abortionist is a guarantor of equality, rather than an abdication of responsibility, the statement does not say. The small body of a child rests lifeless in this struggle between the sexes. It is so sad and unnecessary, as the lives of millions of accomplished men and women who both faced their responsibilities and fulfilled their careers attest. This does not mean the feminist struggle lacks import in the area of reproduction; it surely does. It only means that abortion is not the answer. More likely, it is a major part of a very wrong answer.
Where Mr. Obama’s statement is notable is that he repeats the latest of the catchphrases, “the need for abortion,” which was offered up in the 2008 Democratic platform. It becomes his phrase in a new way now. For one, it means this issue is not above his pay grade anymore. There is a “need for abortion.” If that is so, this practice is in every way distinct from something morally objectionable or inherently wrong. Who would speak of a “need for human trafficking”? A “need for child abuse”? A “need for prostitution”? There are indeed many sorrows in this Vale of Tears that the law, for prudential reasons, does not address. Non-obscene pornography for one, perhaps. But no one but the most radical people speaks of these evils as things for which there is a “need.”
President Obama says he wants to reduce the need for abortion. But if it is essential to women’s equality, why reduce it? His policies, deferred today for a few hours, weeks, or – we hope – months, will certainly promote and increase the abortion rate. Today’s statement says that “we are united in our determination . . . to support women and families in the choices they make” on this issue, irrespective of “our views.” Either that is a very presumptive editorial “we” or a very elastic use of the word “support.” It probably means public funding for both maternity care and abortion. But most Americans oppose tax funding of abortion. We as a nation are not “united” in this matter, though President Obama may seek to force a new unity upon us with the chains of appropriations law.
The best hope is that this portion of his statement is rhetoric. That he, or other Democrats in Congress who retain some respect for the Hyde Amendment and similar provisions that have kept a wall of conscience between the citizenry and this bloody trade, may yet have a change of heart and allow only those who will death, Planned Parenthood and its friends, to fund death. Common ground so blood-soaked is not a place where men and women can stand together. Virtues die in such soil.
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Comments
A woman has *always* had the right to choose to become pregnant.
She should *never* have the right to choose to kill her developing offspring.
Mr. President:
Is there any more sure start “to have no limits on their dreams” than to allow them to live into post birth?
Will President Obama want to fund post birth abortions too?
this is posted on my blog
(http://afticker.blogspot.com/) and I wish to share it to all those reading this one.
American history books frequently mention the lynching of African-Americans; one count from 1882 to the 1960s records 3,445 blacks dying that way. Other facts, though, go generally unrecorded: Since 1973 the number of aborted African-American babies totals 12 million, and every day in the United States some 1,500 die through abortion. According to the Alan Guttmacher Institute, more than 43 percent of African-American pregnancies end in abortion. Although African-Americans represent only 12 percent of the American population, they account for almost 35 percent of all abortions. In Mississippi, for example, while African-Americans represent only 37 percent of the population, they account for 73 percent of the state’s abortions. More than 78 percent of Planned Parenthood’s abortion centers are in or near minority communities.
Many are not aware of the abortion industry’s focus on African-Americans that began in 1939 with Margaret Sanger’s involvement with the Negro Project. Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, supported the project’s mission of promoting sterilization and birth control among African-Americans because she believed that “the procreation of this group should be stopped.”
And now this same community that has been targeted for elimination which certainly would be called genocide by the Democrats if such were occurring in another country such as the Sudan , or Uganda, has elected the most genocidal President to ever hold office. This President has extended this genocide to the rest of the world through his executive order undoing what former President Bush had accomplished by stopping funding for abortion in foreign countries.
I congratulate Mr. Childress for standing up and saying what needs to be said and can only hope that the Black community as well as the misguided liberals who ignored Obama’s voting record in the Illinois Senate saying he will change will see just exactly what type of individual they have elected. I dare to hear the so called progressive liberals screaming about the genocide in other countries when they are allowing the same here in the United States of America all in the name of a “woman’s rights” . It seems they have forgotten the rights of those who can not yet speak.
The article below is from Mr. Childress website BlackGenocide.org. Mr. Childress, a registered Democrat, was called a “sell out” for promoting a Republican platform during the Presidential campaigning cycle, he insists that his concern “for the life of my people” stems from his convictions as a pastor rather than political motives. I believe he speaks the truth in this regard. I ask that those of you who read this blog to pass this along to your Black friends who failed to see anything but a man of color being President and to your perhaps misguided liberal friends who fail to understand that regardless of what they see as a “ woman’s right” is still murder.
Revelations of eugenic ideology and the racist practices of Planned Parenthood are unfolding more and more.
The public is just beginning to believe what people of conscience have known long ago: Planned Parenthood has diabolically perpetrated their murderous plot to surgically eliminate those they deem undesirable. In other words: kill the babies of unsuspecting minority women by aborting their children. Then, tell them this is a “good thing” for you and your people. No other ethnic group in the United States has been decimated more by abortion than the Afro-American community. The war being waged upon innocent captives in the womb is led by Planned Parenthood.
The strategy:
Convince the targeted community to accept their eugenic racist plan by selecting one from their ethnicity to promote it. One of Planned Parenthood’s earliest known projects was in 1939. It was called the “Negro Project” — a project designed to control the birth of “human weeds” which was how Margaret Sanger referred to colored people; a project designed to introduce abortion, sterilization and different forms of birth control. This is what a co-eugenic wrote to Margaret Sanger to make sure the “Negro Project” was a success:
Clarence Gamble, heir of Proctor and Gamble, wrote a memorandum in November, 1939 entitled: “Suggestions for the Negro Project.” In the letter he suggested black leaders “be placed in positions where it would appear they were in charge.”
This is a letter to Clarence Gamble, from Margaret Sanger, in which she wrote,
“We should hire three or four colored ministers, preferably with social-service backgrounds, and with engaging personalities. The most successful educational approach to the Negro is through a religious appeal. We don’t want the word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members.”
For those of you that don’t know, Barack Obama became a “minister” of Planned Parenthood a long time ago. He’s so good at carrying out their racist, murderous, agenda against Afro-Americans and society at large, they gave him a 100% score on his voting record. Planned Parenthood is following the strategy of their racist founder, Margaret Sanger, to the letter. Planed Parenthood is saying, “We have our poster boy! Get him out in front as a lure for their women and men. Get them into our abortion clinics and dismember their children by the millions!” You say absurd? No Way! Planned Parenthood’s Valentine cards were sent out to hundreds of thousands of young people in the nation. Whose face is plainly seen waving to them with a big smile? Whose endorsement is given to this racist and calloused organization? Who is used to lure children to give credibility to its hideous plot? Barack Obama, that’s who!
On July 17, 2007, Barack Obama said the following before the Planned Parenthood Action Fund:
“Thank You, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you! ($) Thanks to all of you at Planned Parenthood for all the work that you are doing for women all across the country and for families all across the country-and for men who have enough sense to realize you are helping them, all across the country. I want to thank Cecile Richards (national president of Planned Parenthood) for her extraordinary leadership. I am happy to see so many good friends here today, including Steve Trombley and Pam Sutherland from my home state of Illinois. We had a number of battles down in Springfield from many years and it’s wonderful to see that they are here today”
The first friend mentioned is, Cecile Richards, who he commends for extraordinary leadership in killing babies who are disproportionately black.
The second is, Steve Trombley, who is the president of Planned Parenthood Chicago. You can imagine how many of our young women have been victimized and whose pre-born children were killed under his supervision. His third friend he mentions is, Pam Sutherland. She is the State CEO of Planned Parenthood for Illinois. America needs to know how much these folks were, and continue today, to be in the head and actions of Senator Barack Obama. How much did he compromise his own values?
I choose here to quote Dr. Martin Luther King from his last Sunday sermon before his death:
“There comes a time when one must take the position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must do it because conscience tells him it is right. I believe today that there is a need for all people of goodwill to come with a massive act of conscience and say in the words of the old Negro Spiritual, ‘We ain’t goin’ study war no more.’”
This is the challenge facing modern man.
When the challenge came to Barack Obama to call on conscience, he refused. What most Americans would say no to, he chooses to say, yes to! He refused to do what The Dream called for: to allow your conscience to tell you what is right and what would be wrong. You may ask, why, but always remember this observation: Abortion is a lot like slavery; if it was not lucrative, it would not have been legal!
Pam Sutherland … of … Illinois Planned Parenthood … told ABC News, “We worked with him specifically on his strategy. The Republicans were in control of the Illinois Senate at the time. They loved to hold votes on ‘partial birth’ and ‘born alive.’ They put these bills out all the time because they wanted to pigeonhole Democrats. …”
Let me interpret. We, Planned Parenthood, told him what to say, and how to say it, so we could continue to kill infants; babies, just a few inches from birth, and those completely out of the womb that we missed! Our “colored minister” was well prepared by Planned Parenthood. Partial Birth abortion — which I will not describe here — but know that 80% of Americans don’t want this barbaric act practiced in this country – Barack Obama voted to keep legal! The Born Alive Victims Act is a law to protect a child that was born alive after a botched abortion; a law that would require that the child would receive medical assistance. Barack Obama voted against it! Yes. Barack Obama, with an “engaging personality” is being used by the leading abortion provider in the United States to promote and execute infanticide of predominately minority babies!
And what are most Afro-Americans saying? “Yes We Can! Yes We Can! Yes We Can!” They are ignoring conscience. They are ignoring The Dream!
“I have a Dream, that one day, my four little children, will live in a world where that they won’t be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character ….”
Yes, I believe it would be wonderful to have a Black man as president, but it’s more important for there to be, God’s man as president, and that his character would reflect my values; values reflected in the 10 Commandments and our Declaration of Independence. While most African-Americans are applauding him for the color of his skin, they have failed to look at closely the content of his character.
Martin Luther King, while sitting in a Birmingham jail, without the internet, cell phone, library resources, or communication from the outside, penned that famous prophetic letter to answer some local Pastors who questioned his use of public demonstrations. Martin, in a portion of his letter, discussed the responsibility of the church to address social issues. He said, “… the early church put an end to such evils as infanticide.” Martin Luther King wrote from the passion of his spirit — the spirit that was fighting for justice and equality. Martin called infant killing evil. Barack Obama calls it “a women’s right.” Martin Luther King made his observation from a jail cell, having been put there for defending the civil rights of those whom had been denied theirs. Barack Obama has made his from caucusing with those who profit from the destruction of babies in the womb. These are men and women who ignore the silent screams of a lost generation.
Another quote from Dr. Martin Luther King that would be so appropriate here is, “The Negro cannot win if he chooses to sacrifice the future of his children for immediate comfort and safety.” It is now imperative we all hear the words of this great Prophet of God. It is obvious we must reject the “Barack Obamas” who have placed us in great danger by their ideologies, a position Martin Luther King warned us we cannot expect to win! Can we trust Barack Obama’s judgment? I think not.
Yes, Margaret Sanger would love Barack Obama …. Her protégés certainly do
I’m not surprised that it took less than a week in office for President Obama to show his support for child killing. After all, he was the most liberal senator in office.
We need to be asking ourselves from where does the President get the power to use our tax dollars to kill the innocent. And, what other moral issues are decided at the stroke of a pen by our President? Where is the “check and balance” system of government?
Did the media check (then) Senator Obama’s pro abortion position?
Did the media check (then) Senator Obama’s pro abortion position?
Does Mr. Obama realize what a complete and total hypocrite he is?! He is the “proud father” of two girls, that he claims to care about but he wants to MURDER millions of innocent children.But, he justs stands there smiling and sugar coating everything, as if America will be better off without any children. I hope he knows the only change that will happen is in the population if he keeps up this MASSACRE of unborn children.
By: Max | January 23, 2009 at 12:05 am
Nothing less should be expected from a Marxist propagandist and their lukewarm fellows.
America choose their path (to further the genocide), they will get what they desired.
Little doubt God will not stop it either, He hasn’t stopped over 300,000,000 unborn babies to be murdered in this the greatest genocide in the history of the world (not including the unknown amount murdered chemically by the birth control pill which causes abortion upon already conceived embryos, see epm.org for info), so I don’t see Him stopping it now until Jesus returns in flaming fire.
All believers and those who accept humanity from the moment of conception are leaving the genocidal first world countries to join in the last exodus to 3rd world countries where we don’t have to accept or fund this genocide.
Don’t stay in these countries which are now taking your taxes to fund this the world genocide in the history of the world, do not be a partaker of these sins.