Barack Obama & aborted babies left to die
This week the Democratic party made clear its total support of abortion on demand.
Gone is the “safe, legal and rare” rhetoric of the past few years and in is this:
“The Democratic Party strongly and unequivocally supports Roe v. Wade and a woman’s right to choose a safe and legal abortion, regardless of ability to pay, and we oppose any and all efforts to weaken or undermine that right.”
The presumptive Democratic presidential candidate, Barack Obama, clearly ultra liberal on the abortion issue — look at his Senate record — is surely pleased.
Less clear is whether the conflicted electorate will be.
And now, as of three days ago, we have new charges from the National Right to Life organization about candidate Obama’s abortion obfuscation as well as his well known abortion extremism.
NRL accuses Barack Obama of being a whole lot less than truthful when he defends his opposition — three times as an Illinois state senator — to a proposed Illinois state version of the popular federal Born Alive Infant Protection Act :
New documents just obtained by NRLC, and linked below, prove that Senator Obama has for the past four years blatantly misrepresented his actions on the Illinois Born-Alive Infants Protection bill.
Summary and comment by NRLC spokesman Douglas Johnson: “Newly obtained documents prove that in 2003, Barack Obama, as chairman of an Illinois state Senate committee, voted down a bill to protect live-born survivors of abortion — even after the panel had amended the bill to contain verbatim language, copied from a federal bill passed by Congress without objection in 2002, explicitly foreclosing any impact on abortion.
Obama’s legislative actions in 2003 — denying effective protection even to babies born alive during abortions — were contrary to the position taken on the same language by even the most liberal members of Congress. The bill Obama killed was virtually identical to the federal bill that even NARAL ultimately did not oppose.”
…..The bill that Chairman Obama killed, as amended, was virtually identical to the federal law; the only remaining differences were on minor points of bill-drafting style. To see the language of the two bills side by side, click here.
As you delve into the history of Mr. Obama’s “reasoning” for refusing to protect these dying infants, you might become weary, as I do, of the minced words and split hairs that so often accompany his rhetoric. Nuancing this is not.
And if you have the stomach for it, listen to Jill Stanek, R.N. — also from Illinois — as she recounts watching these abandoned little ones left to die.
Sherry Tyree, 66, a graduate of John Burroughs School and Washington University, is a founding member (1984) and Vice President of Women for Faith & Family, a national Catholic women's organization that supports and defends traditional church teachings. Sherry is married to Dr. Donald A. Tyree, professor emeritus, School of Business, St. Louis University. 
Leah, thank you.
As far as it goes, I think there is plenty of error and sin to go around on both sides of this issue. There is a lot of healing required both within and without the church: and it needs to start inside the church.
The Pro-Lifers, in my opinion, are guilty of gross inconsistency, particularly those who marry their pro-life opinion with ultra-conservative party politics. To me, if you want to call yourself pro-life while you espouse lawmaking that leaves the poor, the widow, and the orphan to fend for themselves, then you haven’t read much of your Bible. Feeding the poor is as much of a pro-life issue as abortion is. Insuring affordable medical care to all is a pro-life issue. Actually being willing to face the very serious issues with the death penalty in the US is a pro-life issue. Daring to question the policies that imprison and potentially put to death 15 year old children is a pro-life issue.
The vehement Pro-Choicers are just as bad. To refuse to allow any limits on abortion is wrong. To seemingly forget that there are real people involved here is wrong. To act as if Abortion is just another method of birth control is wrong. It should be the last resort, not the first.
Bottom line: the lack of Christian Charity on both sides poisons the whole discussion. The willingness to demonize one’s opponents is totally contrary to what my Bible teaches me about how to respond to my fellows.
Amen,hs. Thank you.
My big question is, when will Christians truly began to believe God’s word concerning the world, the world system and people who are part of the world?
Why do so many Christians fail to recognize God’s truth of what can and cannot be changed? God tells us how to deal with every issue under the sun. The method that most who call themselves Pro-Lifer’s (Conservative Christians) have been going about the abortion issue concerning ones living in the world and not part of the church or accepting of God’s truth, I can’t seem to find scripture to support their behaviors and actions.
Maybe Mrs. Sherry Tyree can feature a post in this blog explaining how the actions of “Pro-Lifer’s” concerning abortions are supported by scripture concerning those in our world who do not know God or those who have rejected God, and don’t care to know Him.
suzy,
Today’s sex eduction is NOT abstinence only. In fact, it does not emphasize abstinence at all. Today’s sex education promotes sexual activity and presents abortion as a safe option just in case. It is that emphasis that leads to the appalling numbers that you are ignoring.
Leah,
It’s not a black and white issue. There’s plenty of gray area. However, there is one big black cloud that your side conveniently ignores. You see a dead baby as a symptom. I see it as a dead baby. Your side promotes knocking off a baby as a treatment of the “symptom” and everything then is a-OK.
You are right that abortion is here to stay, but it should be here to stay on an exceptional basis. You cannot call yourself “whole life” if you support the discretionary practice of killing babies as birth control. Stop throwing out the red herring of the death penalty. If you actually took time to think about the body counts between the two issues, you will actually see the ridiculousness of your statement.
I certainly do think about this issue — a lot more than you do. You are close-minded and have decided to look the other way when the most innocent of all of us is taken from this earth.
hs,
Your post makes a lot of sense. I agree with just about every point you made. Regarding the death penalty, if it were to be eliminated from the land, I would probably be OK with it. Do I feel bad about the most vile of us citizens prematurely meeting their end? No. Should we continue the practice when there are innocent people meeting that end? You’re right that we probably should not. Should we equate this issue with abortion and include it under the “pro-life” moniker? Absolutely not. They are two different issues. To group them together demeans the lives of those innocents that are lost.
We all need to be more involved to address the issues that lead up to the hideous elective abortion rates. I believe it is the Church’s responsibility to do this, not the government’s.
Think,
As Christians it is not about what we think, it is about bringing what we think into agreement with the way God think even though it is not naturally instinct for us to have the mind of God, (to see things as He has shown us of Himself through scripture).
My how hard do you think that it was for the followers of Christ to accept what God allowed to happen to Christ? We must bring ourselves into agreement with God because His plan is a perfect one, even the GRACE offered to murderers, and innocent babies and Children? I have no doubt that my loving Father above has them in good care.
Why do you people fret so much over these innocent children of God? Be more concerned about the matured life.
D. Walker, you are a nut. Go seek some help.
Think,
Please explain to me why you think that I am a nut and, since we are on the “Civil Religious” blog, show me how my views conflict with the teachings of Christ and scripture. Back up that I am as nut and that my way of seeing things are not following after the ways of Christ.
Now, if you cannot do that, them it can be clearly seen my myself and everyone that you follow after the ways of the devil and certainly not Christ and that is a very sad state to be in.
Try NOT spewing your own thoughts and show us how any of your thoughts are in agreement with Christ and how mind isn’t concerning those outside of God’s family.
Now I am waiting for your response to my questions.
Also Think,
The only thing that you need is to read and study the actual HOLY SCRIPTURES as the Holy Spirit leads you, not MAN because they are fallible.