Abortion: NOT a "Small Thing"

Reader, let me ask you a question. Does the crowd in this picture look small? THOUSANDS travel to Washington D.C. every year to March for Life. Because God has blessed America, the protest is done in peace. This is a GREAT country, but there is always room for improvement. That's why Americans applaud the idea of "change." I think the way in which we view the sanctity of human life will ultimately determine the future of our great nation. Obviously, based on this photo, I am not alone.

"We can not make a big election about small things," Senator Barack Obama announces in his acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention. Is abortion a SMALL issue? He says, "Maybe we can't agree on abortion, but we can find ways to reduce the number of unwanted pregnancies. " Is that good enough? Those of us who are pro-life want an attitude shift about the rights of the unborn. Reducing the number of unwanted pregnancies is not going to create a change in the way people view human life. Senator Obama, what does it say about your judgement when you vote against pro-life legislation 100% of the time during your tenure as a senator? Barack Obama likes to say that he voted against the war in Iraq. However, his voting record on life issues is not something he brags about.

I know I nicknamed him "Senator Abominable" in a previous post, but Senator Obama does have admirable personal qualities, and opinions on other issues that I agree with. I wish I could vote for him, but his position on abortion is abominable. How can an intelligent, articulate man who cares about serving others not want rights for unborn children? With his voting record (in regard to life issues) I wonder how can he sleep at night. It would have been a small thing for the senator to support pro-life legislation, and yet, he chose many times to vote "present, " avoiding the issue altogether. What was he doing, putting his future presidential campaign ahead of his conscience?

The following information was taken from the National Right to Life website: http://www.nrlc.org/ :

1. Barack Obama is a co-sponsor of the “Freedom of
   Choice Act” (FOCA), a bill that would
   nullify virtually all federal and state limitations on
   abortion, including the types now permitted by
   the Supreme Court, such as parental notification
   laws and waiting periods. It would also make
   partial-birth abortion legal again.







2. While in the Illinois State Senate, Barack Obama
   voted against legislation that prohibited taxpayer
   dollars from being used to pay for abortion. His
   campaign has stated that he “does not support”
   the Hyde Amendment, which prohibits taxpayer
   funding of abortion through the Medicaid
   program.




3. Barack Obama voted to block a bill to require an
   abortionist to notify a parent before performing an
   abortion on a minor who lives in another state.
   




4. Barack Obama voted against an amendment to
   allow states to provide federally subsidized health
   care insurance for an unborn child (within the
   SCHIP program). The amendment would have
   written explicit language into the SCHIP
   statute to guarantee that a covered child
   “includes, at the option of a State, an unborn
   child.” The amendment further defined “unborn
   child” as “a member of the species homo sapiens,
   at any stage of development, who is carried in the
   womb.”





5. Barack Obama sharply criticized the Supreme
   Court for its 2007 Gonzales v. Carhart decision
   upholding the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act. He
   said, “I strongly disagree with today’s Supreme
   Court ruling...I am extremely concerned that this
   ruling will embolden state legislatures to enact
   further measures to restrict a woman’s right to
   choose, and that the conservative Supreme Court
   justices will look for other opportunities to erode
   Roe v. Wade, which is established federal law and
   a matter of equal rights for women.”
   
   


6. While a member of the Illinois State Senate,
   Barack Obama opposed the proposed “Born-Alive
   Infants Protection Act” (BAIPA). The measure
   was very similar to the federal BAIPA, which
   President Bush signed into law in 2002. Obama
   opposed the legislation for three straight
   legislative sessions and twice spoke against the
   bill on the Senate floor. He voted against the bill
   twice in committee and once on the Senate floor.
   Both laws were intended to provide protection for
   babies who survived abortions equal to protection
   received by babies who are spontaneously born
   prematurely.
   


7. Since his election to the Senate in 2004, Barack
   Obama has compiled a 0% voting record on prolife
   issues scored by the National Right to Life
   Committee. By contrast, he has a 100% rating
   from NARAL Pro-Choice America.
   

Here's what Mother Theresa thinks about small things:

“What I do you cannot do; but what you do, I cannot do. The needs are great, and none of us, including me, ever do great things. But we can all do small things, with great love, and together we can do something wonderful.”

Forget about CHANGE, it's more like, time for a miracle. Maybe Mother Theresa will come out of eternal retirement and run for President of the United States. If not, I plan to use my presidential vote to offend Hillary Clinton. Now that's the beauty of democracy.

"A ship in the harbor is safe, but that's not what a ship was built for."
-John A. Shedd (Salt in My Attic, 1928)

All pictures above show March for Life, Washington D.C., 2008

Above: A 3D sonogram of my youngest at 25 weeks (6 months) in the womb.
By week 4 (one month) the neural tube, which becomes the nervous system and brain, the heart and primitive circulatory system have formed. - (FACT taken from pregnancy.org)