Much was written this week after Senator Obama tried to take a move to the right on abortion. Regardless of the campaign rhetoric, Obama's extreme pro-abortion rights record is definitive and resolute. Why else would Planned Parenthood and NARAl endorse him.
A second Catholics for Obama group has emerged. This one called "10,000 Catholics for Obama" was started by Notre Dame alumni and is not connected to the Obama campaign. The group will make a grassroots attempt to convince like-minded Catholics to support Senator Obama. Of course, like the Obama campaign's "Catholics for Obama," they too will stay away from Obama's very pro-abortion voting record.
Catholics making a case for Obama will state that neither candidate is completely "pro-life." While this may be an accurate statement, it is very misleading. Senator McCain has a 24 year pro-life voting record with the exception of federal funds for embryonic stem cell research.
Yesterday, Frank Donatelli, the Deputy Chairman of the Republican National Committee, spoke with Catholic leadership and media on a conference call. In response to a question on whether Senator McCain had changed his position on embryonic stem cell research funding, Donatelli replied that " ...a change to the extent that we’ve had scientific breakthroughs there. So we may be able to avoid this terrible choice if this research continues to bear fruit."
Senator Obama and his Catholic supporters will also tell you that he is not "pro-abortion," he simply supports a women's right to choose. In an e-mail interview with the National Catholic Register, Doug Kmiec, a pro-life Catholic law professor who is supporting Senator Obama said it was wrong to characterize Obama as pro-abortion;
“No, those who are pro-abortion, as I see it, are those who advocate the practice as a matter of fundamental right or as part of a radical feminist agenda that takes no account of the moral weight or significance of unborn life,”
Well, here are the abortion policy positions of Senator Obama.These changes will make abortion more accessible and more frequent. They would reverse all pro-life strides made through legislation at the state and federal level.
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Congressional Bill to Protect Parental Rights on Teen Abortions Gets Exposure
A Congressional bill that would protect teenagers and parental rights when their daughters are considering an abortion got some extra exposure on Thursday. Members of the House Constitution Subcommittee hosted a forum to draw attention to the Child Interstate Abortion Notification Act.
The measure would prohibit any person, other than a parent or guardian, from transporting a minor across a state line to obtain an abortion.
The idea behind the bill is to make sure the parental consent and notification laws in a minor girl's home state are followed and that abortion center staff or some other person doesn't take a teen to another state for a secret abortion.
Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, a Florida Republican, is the prime sponsor of the bill. read more LifeNews
De-Fund Planned Parenthood Abortion Business, Members of Congress Say
Several members of Congress lined up on the floor of the House of Representatives and issued a call for de-funding Planned Parenthood. They said taxpayers shouldn't be forced to fund the abortion business -- even if the money doesn't directly go towards abortions.
Reps. Michelle Bachmann of Minnesota and Chris Smith of New Jersey, both Republicans, organized the special order speeches.
The pro-life representatives chided abortion advocates in the Democratic Congressional leadership for approving a $17 million increase in federal taxpayer funding for Planned Parenthood through the Title X Program.
Other members participating in the special order speeches included Reps. Joe Pitts (R-Pennsylvania), Paul Broun, MD (R-Georgia), Trent Franks (R-Arizona), Jeb Hensarling (R-Arizona), Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), Doug Lamborn (R-Colorado), Mike Pence (R-Indiana), Bill Sali (R-Idaho) and Jean Schmidt (R-Ohio). read more LifeNews
Funds to controversial U.N. group denied
The Bush administration has refused for the seventh consecutive year to forward federal money to a controversial United Nations family planning fund linked to the support of China's coercive population control program.
Congress had designated nearly $40 million for the U.N. Population Fund, but the State Department again determined, as it has every year since 2002, a grant to the organization would violate a 1985 law. That measure, known as the Kemp-Kasten Amendment, prohibits family planning money from going to any entity that, as decided by the president, "supports or participates in the management of a program of coercive abortion or involuntary sterilization."
During the past seven years, the Bush administration has withheld a total of nearly $235 million from the UNFPA as a result of applying the Kemp-Kasten Amendment. read more BP
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This Week's "Not So Catholic" PoliticianKansas Gov Kathleen Sebelius
Pro-abortion Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius is attacking a pro-life Democrat and supporting his primary opponent because she disagrees with his abortion stance.
This Weeks Headlines
De-Fund Planned Parenthood Abortion Business, Members of Congress Say Several members of Congress lined up on the floor of the House of Representatives and issued a call for de-funding Planned Parenthood. They said taxpayers shouldn't be forced to fund the abortion business -- even if the money doesn't directly go towards abortions. LifeNews
Funds to controversial U.N. group denied The Bush administration has refused for the seventh consecutive year to forward federal money to a controversial United Nations family planning fund linked to the support of China's coercive population control program. BP
Bush 'Best President' on Fight Against HIV/AIDS, Opinion Piece Says Although HIV/AIDS was "promoted as an important reason" for gays and lesbians to elect former Democratic President Clinton in 1992, it is "unquestionable" that Republican President Bush "has done more to fight AIDS than any president in history," David Benkof of GaysDefendMarriage.com writes in a Philadelphia Daily News opinion piece. The "people pushing Bush to fight the epidemic at home and abroad are overwhelmingly conservative Christians -- the same people we keep hearing gay leaders tar as narrow-minded and bigoted" -- Benkof writes.
From Our Shepherds
THE IMPENDING SUICIDE OF A ONCE GREAT NATION Fr. John Corapi
The Pro-Life Movement: "We Shall Not Weary, We Shall Not Rest" Fr. Richard Neuhaus
U.S. To Send Largest International Pilgrim Group To World Youth Day In Sydney USCCB
What Morgentaler's 'victory' teaches us: Abortion isn't the settled issue it was supposed to be.
Fr. Raymond deSouzaArchbishop Burke to Head Vatican’s Highest Court NCatholicReg
Faithless, Faith-Based Initiatives
Fr. Jonathan MorrisForm Your Conscience, Vote Your Conscience Fr. John Corapi
Obama’s Fatal Flaw Fr. Jonathan Morris, FoxNews
Commentary
The Flaws in the FHA Housing Bill WallStreetJ
The Threat of Non-Citizen Voting Heritage Foundation
Keep free speech free Pelosi attempts to bring the Fairness Doctrine back - WashTimes
Let McCain be McCain Townhall
Ten Ways an Obama Presidency Might Help America - But I still Wont Vote For Him - InsideCatholic
Be faithful. Stay alive More money continues to be spent on HIV/AIDS -- a terrible but preventable scourge -- than any other disease in history - much of it wasted... NationalPost
Saving Iraq’s Christians NationalReview
The Giving Society First Things
Exposing the madness and hidden agenda of public education RenewAmerica
Same Sex "Marriage": Illegal in All Fifty States Townhall
A Willfull Blindness Barack Obama seems to be laboring under the considerable misimpression that this country is engaged not in a war but some kind of criminal investigation. Townhall
The Jesse Helms You Should Remember Washington Post
