Can you be pro-life and support Senator Obama?

I'm glad to hear Martin Sheen is pro-life! Oh nevermind, he's only pro-Charlie Sheen. Canard number one: "Republican partisans maintain that the only way to be pro-life is through the supreme court." Not true at all. Simply go to the national right to life website and see a link for the many adoption options that are out there.

Republicans/conservatives maintain that abortion is a barbaric taking of innocent human life that shouldn't be condoned in a civilized society. We maintain that society must be educated, while at the same time pointing out that the law of the land reflects and guides the morality of that land. Why do you think homosexual lobby is working so hard to equalize homosexual union with marriage? They want to change society from the top down... through the courts or the law.

Mr. Kmiec (the interviewer ) is right when he says overturning Roe V. Wade would return the issue to the states. Each state could then make its own decision. Yet Democrats often make it sound as if electing a Republican is akin to taking away a woman's right to choose.

Canard number two: "Most of those women are in bad times economically." He makes it sound as if most of the women who have an abortion are practically homeless. I simply did a google search on abortion statistics and came up with a paper at a site called www.thirdway.org, so no one can dismiss this as "pro-life propaganda." Here's an excerpt from the paper: "Women who have abortions tend to be low income, but that could be a factor of their age rather than their poverty status. 57% of women who seek an abortion have incomes that are below twice the federal poverty level. However, the portrait that it paints of them as poor could be misleading. 52% of women who have an abortion are under the age of 25. Young people simply earn less than older people and single people earn far less than married people. For example, a 2003 census bureau study found that those under 25 with a bachelor’s degree earned on average $22,000 while those between 25 and 29 with the same degree earned $39,000.x Thus, these women could have low incomes, but they could also have wealthy or middle class parents."

Canard number three: It's okay to vote for Obama even though you're pro-life because he wants to expand government to help women with unwanted pregnancies: The absurdity of his argument amazes me: that the Government on one hand should come alongside you can try to convince you to have that baby, presumably through some sort of social welfare program or other financial incentive, while on the other hand encouraging abortion by giving more money to planned parenthood and making abortion more and more acceptable and accessible. Talk about mixed messages!

In Obama's case he even justifies infanticide on the basis that it could threaten a woman's right to choose http://www.nrlc.org/ObamaBAIPA/Truth.html

YouTube - Violent Homosexuals on the Warpath Attack elderly & Stomp crosses

YouTube - Violent Homosexuals on the Warpath Attack elderly & Stomp crosses

Ahhh, the tolerant left!

Word of the Day for Sunday, November 9, 2008
horripilation \haw-rip-uh-LAY-shuhn; ho-\, noun:

the act or process of the hair bristling on the skin, as from cold or fear; goose flesh

For many Americans, the election of our 44th president has caused horripilation.

There are a few things capable of sending an icy horripilation through even the bravest man.
-- Who Will Provide Social Security?, Washington Times, June 11, 1996
This is not to say that the horripilation Iran's nuclear programme inspires is unjustified; nor is it to claim that no other state would seek to develop or maintain nuclear weapons if the official nuclear powers gave theirs up.
-- George Monbiot, Guardian, January 23, 2002

Works and Days » The Day After

Works and Days » The Day After: "It seems to me that conservatives have a golden opportunity to offer criticism and advice in a manner that many liberals did not during the last eight years. By that I mean I hope there are no conservative versions of the Nicholson Baker Knopf-published ‘novel’ Checkpoint, the creepy documentary by Gerald Range, the attempt to name a sewer plant after an American President, or the celebrity outbursts that we have witnessed with the tired refrain of Hitler/Nazi Bush—that all have cheapened political discourse. When I hear a partisan insider like Paul Begala urging at the 11th hour that we now rally around lame-duck Bush in his last few days, I detect a sense of apprehension that no Democrats would wish conservatives to treat Obama as they did Bush for eight years."

The Good of It

Even though my guy lost, last night was strangely cathartic. I had my doubts about the polls, but didn't think McCain was really going to pull a rabbit out of a hat.

One thing I did enjoy last night was watching Juan Williams of NPR on Fox. Juan is a Democrat and an African-American, and he supports Obama. However, he has also been critical of the media's coverage of an as well as Obama's lack of substance: in short, he is not just a Kool-Aid drinker and has earned my respect. Last night as he was speaking about the historocity of the first black president he couldn't help but choke up. I can only imagine how emotional this moment is, not just for blacks but other minorities as well.

Many don't know or understand what he stands for, he is just a symbol to them. It's ironic that it's taken the election of a Democrat to prove what conservatives have been saying for years: that America is not a racist country, that anyone can succeed.

Unfortunately this didn't stop a mob from gathering outside of the White House chanting "evict Bush now." There are simply too many on the left that are driven by hate. My fear is that even if Obama wanted to govern as a centrist (and there is some evidence that he would, for example on the makeup of economic team, and the fact that he has backed off saying he will immediately pull out the troops), he is beholden to the far left constituency and a far left Congress. And he has shown no record of breaking from Democrats in the past, voting with Nancy Pelosi 97% of the time.

He has pledged to NARAL to bring up the Freedom of Choice Act, which would bar states from restricting abortion in any fashion. That means no parental notification, and partial-birth abortion cannot be restricted by states. It would not have a mandate that a doctor treated baby that survives abortion: it would be okay to simply put that baby in a closet to die.

I will pray for President Obama. I will pray he will have wisdom and courage. I will pray that he not govern from the left, but from the center-right. And if he does not, I will pray for a conservative Congress in 2010 and a conservative leader (Palin? Bobby Indall? Mike Pence?) in 2012. But my prayer today is that everyone who thinks America is a hateful and racist country, e.g. those who have for too long listen to the Reverend Wrights and Louis Farrakhans of the world, disavow that notion. By God's grace, this is the greatest country on earth.

I'm *truly* pro choice.

I'm pro choice.

That may come as a surprise to many of you who know that I am ardently pro-life. Let me explain that I'm not changing my position; I'm simply taking back a term that has been hijacked: choice.

When people say they are pro-choice, they are really only referring to one choice, i.e., whether or not to prematurely end their pregnancy through abortion. Those of us who understand that a fetus is not an organism, but a stage in the development of a human being, are the ones who are *truly* pro-choice:

I want that baby to choose his favorite food, his favorite color, his favorite toy. To choose his best friend. His favorite stuffed animal. When he gets a little older he can choose whether he wants to be a fireman or an astronaut when he grows up. And then I want him to be able to change his mind every month after that.

When he starts school I want him to be able to choose who to sit by on the bus. In high school I want him to pick his first girlfriend and whether or not he will go to the prom. Then I want him to choose what college he wants to go to, who he is going to marry, and whether or not he still wants to be an astronaut when he grows up.

So the next time someone tells you they are pro-choice, ask them if they are, really.