According to a frightening website  that literally sent a shiver up my spine, Senator Obama has a 100% pro-choice rating based on his legislative voting record. As a pro-life activist and well-informed voter, I was certainly aware of his pro-abortion record, but I am afraid that a large cross-section of the electorate was not and still is not. This website (the “rh” in the website refers to reproductive health) detailed more specific aspects of Barack Obama’s pro-abortion stance, and drills it down even to emergency contraception (supports it for women over age 18), parental consent (opposes it), and federal funding of crisis pregnancy centers.

Barack Obama opposes federal funding of crisis pregnancy centers. Why? As a politician who rabidly supports abortions being performed in military hospitals, being paid for by the federal government, being performed on third-trimester babies by delivering them feet first and stabbing them in the skull, why would I be surprised that he opposes supporting crisis pregnancy centers? Obama claims that he wants to reduce the number of abortions in America, but by cutting off funding to centers which can help women with emotional support, material support and pre-natal care, and adoption services, he may as well drive them to the abortion clinic and perform the abortion himself. So much for wanting to prevent abortions and encourage family values and adoptions.

Barack Obama opposes EVERY legal restriction on abortion. EVERY SINGLE ONE.
He opposes giving women the CHOICE to keep the child alive through counseling, assistance. He even supports allowing a child who has survived an abortion to die on the table by denying the child medical care and legal protection under the law. Forget “pro-choice” – that is flatly “pro-abortion”. No – that is infanticide.

I don’t care what hopes you have for Obama to change the economy, to save the stock market, to save your job, to save the auto industry – if you can’t count on him to step in to save the life of a child who has survived attempted murder, what good is the rest of it?
To paraphrase a minister interviewed on CNN pre-election, economies come and go, but God’s view on His creation never changes.

As an American Catholic, I was sickened and shocked to learn that Barack Obama received the lion’s share of the Catholic vote in this election; however, some of my surprise evaporated when I saw that the Bishops waited until AFTER Obama won to issue their most forceful denunciation of the Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA). Obama openly and clearly stated his intention during the campaign to make signing the legislation his first act as President. While the Catholic Church has always taught that the protection of innocent life should be the overriding concern when a Catholic goes into the voting booth, perhaps the Bishops took for granted that Catholics would adhere to that teaching, especially after voting in large numbers for President Bush in 2004 (52% versus 46% in 2000). Of course, the electorate is comprised of plenty of cafeteria Catholics, who pick and choose the teachings and issues that are the most palatable, appetizing, and easy to swallow. Don't misunderstand - I certainly am not your picture-perfect Catholic but there have to be lines that are not crossed. Those Catholics mistakenly believed that the war, their 401(k), and “change” took precedence over the horror of legalizing the barbaric act of delivering infants feet first, sticking scissors into the base of the skull, and sucking the child’s brains out. I would apologize for being so graphic and hitting my readers over the head, but I’m not sorry. Catholics ought to understand that for which they voted when casting a vote for Barack Obama. They voted for:

-striking down all restrictions

-allowing federal finding for abortion

-partial-birth abortion

-restricting counseling women in crisis pregnancy toward other life-preserving options

-forcing Catholic hospitals to murder unborn children or shut down (they will shut down before they betray their consciences). 

It was not until November 11 that the Bishops declared that they will FIGHT Obama on the issue of abortion. Perhaps this fight should have started about nine months ago, when it might have actually made a difference. Unfortunately, I believe the Bishops and all other like-minded Americans who abhor the massacre of unborn children will never be able to sway Obama’s firm stance that the abortion industry should be completely unregulated. The electorate should have been the target group to persuade. An ironic note about regulation, upon which I will expound in further writings:  for a party who decries the supposed deregulation in the housing market, the financial market, Wall Street, and every other industry they are itching to get their paws on, the sacred abortion industry should be left to manage itself behind a veil of “privacy” and secrecy? Although it may be a futile effort, we still are obligated to ascertain that this legislation never reaches the White House, where it would inevitably be signed. And we must call upon the only One who can truly change the hearts of our misguided lawmakers.