Many in the conservative pro-life movement are getting fed up with Barack Obama's overtures to pro-lifers by offering a new take on the issue, vowing to reduce demand for abortion rather than curtailing abortion rights.
This growing frustration is evident in comments on this blog from National Right to Life Legislative Director Douglas Johnson in response to the pro-Obama advocacy of pro-life advocate Douglas Kmiec.
Many traditional pro-life activists think it's absurd that a strict pro-choicer like Obama, who opposed the Infant Born Alive Act as a state legislator and denounced last year's Supreme Court decision upholding the Partial Birth Abortion Act, is wooing pro-life voters. They think it's deeply offensive.
How offensive? Check out Catholic League President Bill Donohue's new piece on Inside Catholic parodying the argument that pro-life Catholics could back Obama with clear consciences. Donohue's article is a line-by-line send up of a recent piece in the National Catholic Reporter by an Obama supporter entitled "I'm Catholic, staunchly anti-abortion, and support Obama."
Donohue compares that position to a staunchly anti-racist Catholic supporting David Duke. With all the attention Obama and the Democrats have received by courting the pro-life community, Donohue's piece is a helpful reminder of how starkly hardcore pro-life advocates see the issue.
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Sarah Jane writes:
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Scruffy writes:
This is what makes abortion one of the biggest dividing lines in the culture war. Pro-lifers don't feel like abortion is the least of our problems. They think the tens of millions of abortions since Roe v. Wade represent a holocaust.
I couldn't believe what I just read!!! Scruffy said,"Abortion is the least of our problems" and still claims to be a prolife Christian!!! When 25% of all pregnancies in our country end in abortion (which is the destruction/killing of human life) and with the trail of emotional, physical and spiritual devastation these abortions cause, this person makes this more than ignorant claim. Obviously this person has not felt the pain of abortion or is in so much denial he/she is not thinking clearly. Have the nerve to view images of abortion and I am certain you will, at least, see clearly what the truth is!
In the third presidential debate Senator Obama made the claim that he would ban Partial Birth abortions if protection was given with regards to the health of the mother. This is an empty argument since the baby is killed after it has been 90% delivered and only its head is still in the womb. The mother's health is not in jeopardy for that last second it takes to deliver the baby. He is just being dishonest. Take a look at this video which goes into detail of the procedure.
Hey Birdie57, nothing wrong with hating white people, being white I see more reasons for it. In fact most of the really despicable people I know are white. Christians even more so. They all practice religion but never master it. Since when was it good morals to lie repeatedly? (morels are mushrooms by the way, no evidence if Palin has good ones or not.)
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