Obama Abortion Backtrack Shows He's All Rhetoric, No Fight
By Bonnie Erbe, Thomas Jefferson Street blog
Now that the U.S. Senate has postponed a resolution to the health care reform debacle until the fall, one thing we know will not be included is a provision to reverse the infamous Hyde Amendment. Such a provision would allow federal funds to be used for poor women's abortions, which the Hyde Amendment has banned for more than three decades.
Rich and even middle-class women can always get them from ob-gyn's or private hospitals that provide them. But poor women are denied abortions by a combination of economics and the Christian right. Now, our supposedly pro-choice president is signaling that federal funds for abortion is not the kind of issue over which he's willing to wage a fight:
In an interview with Katie Couric, the president said, "I'm pro-choice, but I also think we have a tradition in this town, historically, of not financing abortions as part of government funded healthcare."
Actually, President Obama is about as pro-choice as he is anti-war, pro-environment, and pro-women's rights, which is to say, not so much or hardly at all when it comes to action versus rhetoric.
Former Catholics for a Free Choice leader Frances Kissling has an interesting take on why Congress should overturn the Hyde Amendment which of course Congress would do if it were more pro-adult female life than pro-zygote life. But since zygotes matter more than women according to the so-called pro-life movement, that'll never happen.
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Words of Wisdom from someone most people admire:
From Mother Teresa's speech in America(1994):
"America needs no words from me to see how your decision in Roe v. Wade has deformed a great nation. The so-called right to abortion has pitted mothers against their children and women against men. It has sown violence and discord at the heart of the most intimate human relationships. It has aggravated the derogation of the father's role in an increasingly fatherless society. It has portrayed the greatest of gifts -- a child -- as a competitor, an intrusion, and an inconvenience. It has nominally accorded mothers unfettered dominion over the independent lives of their physically dependent sons and daughters.
And, in granting this unconscionable power, it has exposed many women to unjust and selfish demands from their husbands or other sexual partners. Human rights are not a privilege conferred by government. They are every human being's entitlement by virtue of his humanity. The right to life does not depend, and must not be declared to be contingent, on the pleasure of anyone else, not even a parent or a sovereign."
(Mother Theresa as reported by the Wall Street Journal, 2/25/94, p. A14)
pro-choicers like aurasaw of CA want it both ways
They want to tell pro-lifers they cannot take a stand on what they feel is murder on grounds pro-lifers are strangers to those having abortions (just slaveowners tell abolitionists to butt out since slavery had nothing to do with personal lives of abolitionists). But they turn around and demand the rest of us pay for their abortions.
If it is such a private thing and government should not intrude to regulate or make laws over it, then guess what? We should not pay for it, and the government should stay out of paying for it as well. Either it is private thing which you say it is and thus effects no one else (except the ones you murdered in the womb) or it is not. If it demands as you say our taxes, then the rest of us have a vested interested as well.
In truth, anytime the civil rights of others are violated, it effects everyone.
Abortion maims, tortures, abuses, and murders the unborn child. It is the cruelest form of child abuse and torture to murder ever.
people in denial
it is hard to admit to oneself that they killed their own child.so instead of admitting to oneself what they have done,they attack people who witness to the child in the womb
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