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Obama: Something begins at conception, Part II

June 27, 2008 by Tanya Zaleski Leave a Comment

Well thank goodness I’m not the only one who found Obama’s Father’s Day speech contradictory. Tony Perkins of The Family Research Council poses this question in a 30 second ad:

If, as you say, fatherhood begins at conception, when does life begin?…If I became a father at conception, when did Samuel here [points to baby in his lap] become my son?

Between you and me, the question sort of answers itself, don’t you think?

[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCm8a5e47Kw&eurl=http://www.frcaction.org/]

Filed Under: All Posts Tagged With: Family Research Council, Obama, Tony Perkins

You call them pollsters, I call them something else

June 24, 2008 by Tanya Zaleski Leave a Comment

NARAL released the results of what they consider a poll last week. I’ve always understood a poll to be a collection or sampling of opinions. NARAL may have been giving more opinion that they were hoping to collect.

Here are the descriptions used by the pollsters in survey calls made to women between May 29 and June 8:

Obama: “Barack Obama believes that the decision to have an abortion is profoundly difficult for women… As president, Obama… will work to reduce unintended pregnancies through prevention and education…”

McCain: “John McCain is pro-life, and on the issue of abortion, he opposes a woman’s right to choose… As president, he will nominate Supreme Court judges who will vote to overturn Roe v. Wade…”

Doesn’t Obama sound like a stand-up guy, full of proactive ideas? Meanwhile, McCain comes across like a stuffy politician, in the worst sense of the word. Imagine what a pro-life group with as many scruples as NARAL would come up with. Reminding women of Obama’s support of late-term and partial-birth abortion, using terms like ‘killing unborn children,’ would definitely be a priority.

Alas, a pro-life group would never get away with it. But NARAL seems to. We aren’t plagued with this sort of double standard in Canada, are we?

Filed Under: All Posts Tagged With: NARAL, Obama, poll

Obama: Something begins at conception

June 17, 2008 by Tanya Zaleski Leave a Comment

I know, I was surprised, too. Especially after this declaration.

But this past Father’s Day, he spoke at a church in Chicago.

If we are honest with ourselves, we’ll admit that too many fathers also are missing, missing from too many lives and too many homes. They have abandoned their responsibilities, acting like boys instead of men.” He added, “We need fathers to realize that responsibility does not end at conception … what makes you a man is not the ability to have a child. It’s the courage to raise one.”

Don’t worry, Obama supporters. I’m sure his innate understanding that a child stems from the moment of conception won’t interfere with his liberal policies on abortion.

All sarcasm aside for a moment, Obama may think that the epidemic of father-absenteeism is another valid reason to support abortion on demand. He may feel America would be a better place if it wasn’t hindered by elevated poverty and crime rates directly related to fatherless households. And yet, to abort babies bound to grow up without active paternal presence is to abort Barack Obama himself, as he was “raised mostly without a father.”

Filed Under: All Posts Tagged With: conception, father, fatherless, Obama

Abortion survivor will not support Obama

June 14, 2008 by Tanya Zaleski 1 Comment

Well, no wonder. Technically, if Obama gets his way, Gianna Jessen is not a ‘person.’

She survived her own abortion 31 years ago:

Well into her third trimester of pregnancy, Gianna’s biological mother was injected with a saline solution intended to induce a chemical abortion at a Los Angeles County abortion center. Eighteen hours later, and precious minutes before the abortionist’s arrival, Gianna emerged. Premature and with severe injuries that resulted in cerebral palsy. But alive.

Had the abortionist been present at her birth, Gianna would have been killed, perhaps by suffocation.

Obama would like to revoke the status of personhood for those babies who survive abortion and emerge fully from the womb. In other words, even though a baby is fully born and alive, they would not be entitled to life and liberty.

At what point would someone like Gianna Jessen be granted personhood, then? If she makes it 24 hours, or a week, is it then automatically granted? Does she have to prove that she can survive a full year? Or maybe never?

With all the recent talk of laws like Bill C-484 setting some new, ‘dangerous’ precedent regarding the status of unborn children, what are we to make of Obama’s views of personhood? What other strange, sick acts will eventually become permissible if Obama gets his way? Will we be granted the right to kill, “perhaps by suffocation,” a child diagnosed at birth with some sort of physical or mental defect? If that happens, will those with certain disabilities be stripped of their personhood altogether? Yes, let’s talk about dangerous precedents!

Perhaps, someday soon, individuals not conforming to a strict physical norm will either be killed or sterilized and banished to the Fringes. (Ever read The Chrysalids?)

IMAGE: The Median Sib

Filed Under: All Posts Tagged With: C-484, Obama, personhood, USA

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