McCain Opens Up New Attack on Obama's Abortion Stance

OBAMA’S DILEMMA AND CHRISTIAN HOLY WAR AGAINST HERETICAL ABORTION

Government sanctioned child-sacrifice by women, Roe vs. Wade, is subversive to the traditional humane and Christian culture of the America People. This perverse legislation was instigated and popularized in America by defeated Marxist refugees, originating from Nazi Germany and Marxist Russia, notorious for their subversive contempt for Christianity, the nuclear family, patriotism, and the Constitution.

Along with the growing political shift towards the Christian pro-life movement, Obama is supporting Born Alive Infant Protection Act legislation, while continuing to pragmatically accept Roe vs. Wade. Not until the time that united Catholic, Protestant, and Mormon congregation leaders lead crusading battles against the condemned heretical supporters of pre-meditated murder by abortion, can Roe vs. Wade finally be politically overturned by the supreme will of Christian America.

In the wonderfully escalating Cultural War, the leading Neo-Con and Neo-Lib abortionists shall ultimately be destroyed by whatever Constitutional means necessary, for their notorious roles in causing the sacrificial killing of over 40 million American children.

Jeugenen of MA 7:22PM September 09, 2008

You wrote: "Don't think for a moment about the absence of pre-natal care, potential for a miscarriage or the life-long medical problems, neglect and abuse her child may suffer from or the long odds against that child someday becoming a contributing member of society." Maybe instead of killing these children you could start iniatives to end poverty, to support drug addicted women, to remove drugs from communities. I'm sure your own mother had problems and fears about raising you when she was pregnant. And she didn't say, well, he might suffer some, so I guess I'll kill him. Maybe you should revere life a little more and instead of making an executive decision (what credentials do you claim on deciding when life begins?) on when a fetus is alive you should work a little harder at helping the poor. In your line of thinking, maybe we should just line up the suffering poor in the inner cities of America and offer them a choice of being shot in the head? After all, aren't they suffering and aren't they going to continue suffering? Who's the fascist now? Conservative or liberal?

Bill of NV 7:09AM August 28, 2008

McCain is simply trying to appeal to the conservative base by suddenly bringing this issue to the forefront. (His polling probably showed he was up by 1% after Saddleback so why not try to wring some more political mileage out of telling the evangelicals what they want to hear - much like what our current president did.) This will likely backfire on him when he brings flip-flop Romney onto the ticket at the end of this week.

I think the Pro-Life label is a misnomer which in effect implies that the contrarian view would be Anti-Life. Because I don’t believe that life begins at conception, I prefer to think of the two sides as Pro-Choice and No Choice. The No Choice folks have no credibility so far as I am concerned. It is easy enough to tell others how to live, especially when it doesn't impact you directly. Convince the 17 year-old pregnant crackhead / prostitute that getting an abortion would be murder then walk away patting yourself on the back. Don't think for a moment about the absence of pre-natal care, potential for a miscarriage or the life-long medical problems, neglect and abuse her child may suffer from or the long odds against that child someday becoming a contributing member of society. Where are these people after the baby is born? It seems that for most the sanctity of life ends at birth. One can only wonder how many pastors, reverends and ministers would follow their preached convictions after finding out their 15 year-old daughter was pregnant?

Advocating for choice gives each woman the right to determine what is best for her. Certainly it would be best if unintended pregnancies could be eliminated entirely, but amazingly some of the same religions who rail most strongly against abortion are also opposed to contraception - lest people think their church approves of sex for some reason other than procreation! Adoption is another option, but has its own problems. Abortion should always be the last resort, but it should be a resort.

McCain is caught in his party's web of having to vocally support a position which may or may not jive with his personal beliefs, but on which he would be unlikely to act even if he were elected.

Ian of AR 1:27PM August 26, 2008

This is a pathetic example of advocacy journalism gone amuck.

In paragraph 5 of the above article, McCain is clearly identifying as extreme Obama's "...advocacy in facor of partial-birth abortion and his refusal to provide medical care for babies surviving abortion".

In paragraph 6 Ewers juxtaposes those specific procedures, which do *not* have broad based public support, with the public's general view of abortion. Polls taken shortly after the Supreme Court's ruling on partial birth abortion, when public attention to the issue was at its height, showed overwhelming majorities against the procedure (75% Pew, 72% Gallup, 66% CNN).

Regarding the Born Alive act, the evidence is even more compelling - only 15 members of the House of Representatives voted against the federal version, the Senate (including abortion stalwarts like Barbara Boxer and Ted Kennedy) passed it unanimously on a voice vote, and NARAL (the National Abortion Rights League) did not oppose it.

The evidence is clear - those positions *are* extreme, i.e, not embraced by the vast majority of Americans and in the one case, not even the preeminent abortion rights lobby. For Ewers to pretend otherwise is cheap, crude hucksterism, more suitable for the used car lot than the pages of U.S. News.

John M of NY 12:08AM August 26, 2008