People May Not Like This, But I Can't Not Post It

**Thanks to Shane at http://caffeinatedthoughts.com/ for the bulk of this post!**

Dr. Robert P. George, the McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University, wrote a piece for the Public Discourse - the Witherspoon Institute’s blog entitled “Obama’s Abortion Extremism” on 10/14/08:


"Sen. Barack Obama’s views on life issues ranging from abortion to embryonic stem cell research mark him as not merely a pro-choice politician, but rather as the most extreme pro-abortion candidate to have ever run on a major party ticket.

Barack Obama is the most extreme pro-abortion candidate ever to seek the office of President of the United States. He is the most extreme pro-abortion member of the United States Senate. Indeed, he is the most extreme pro-abortion legislator ever to serve in either house of the United States Congress.

He supports repealing the Hyde Amendment which protects taxpayers from having to pay for abortions that are not necessary to save the life of the mother or are not the result of rape or incest.

He said that the first thing he would do as President is sign the Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA). This would create a federally guaranteed “fundamental right” to abortion throughout the entire nine months of pregnancy. This legislation would nullify existing state and federal anti-abortion law and policies.

He opposed the partial birth abortion ban (unlike many “pro-choice” legislators) in the Illinois Senate. He then condemned the Supreme Court decision that upheld the ban.

He said that an unexpected pregnancy is punishment that a young woman should not have to endure.

He has said women’s equality requires access to abortion on demand.

He also wants to strip federal funding from crisis pregnancy centers.

So much for finding middle ground on abortion in order to reduce the number of them that occur!

George says that it gets even worse:
But it gets even worse. Senator Obama, despite the urging of pro-life members of his own party, has not endorsed or offered support for the Pregnant Women Support Act, the signature bill of Democrats for Life, meant to reduce abortions by providing assistance for women facing crisis pregnancies.
In fact, Obama has opposed key provisions of the Act, including providing coverage of unborn children in the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (S-CHIP), and informed consent for women about the effects of abortion and the gestational age of their child.
This legislation would not make a single abortion illegal.
It simply seeks to make it easier for pregnant women to make the choice not to abort their babies.
Here is a concrete test of whether Obama is “pro-choice” rather than pro-abortion.
He flunked.
Even Senator Edward Kennedy voted to include coverage of unborn children in S-CHIP.
But Barack Obama stood resolutely with the most stalwart abortion advocates in opposing it.
Still not done - his positions & record gets even worse:

As an Illinois State Senator, Senator Obama opposed legislation to protect children who are born alive.
This legislation would not ban abortions, but protect babies who survive abortion and babies who were deliberately delivered. The federal version passed unanimously in the United States Senate.

Obama has co-authored a bill that would authorize the large-scale industrial production of human embryos for use in biomedical research. (McCain strongly opposes this bill.)
Basically this would allow “embryo farms.”

Obama was one of a few senators that opposed funding non-embryonic stem cell research.

I don’t want to question the faith of those evangelicals who support him, but I do want to exhort them that God’s word is clear regarding abortion. When Obama says that he wants to work to reduce the number of abortions, and that he wants to find middle ground with those who are pro-life what in his record has shown that he will do that? Nothing. He has shown quite the opposite. An Obama administration will be simply dangerous for the pre-born.

How can a Christian, who knows the facts about his record, vote for him with a clear conscience?

I don’t want to question the faith of those evangelicals who support him, but I do want to exhort them that God’s word is clear regarding abortion.

When Obama says that he wants to work to reduce the number of abortions, and that he wants to find middle ground with those who are pro-life what in his record has shown that he will do that?
Nothing.
He has shown quite the opposite.

An Obama administration will be simply dangerous for the pre-born."

I'm not here to force my views on anyone.
I really didn't know the full extent of Obama's abortion stance until now.
I just really wonder how any mother could support not only a pro-abortion candidate, but abortion itself. And, yes, I did write 'pro-abortion' not 'pro-choice'. It's all the same to me.
I guess one just sounds less horrifying than the other.