RSSObama’s Pro-Infanticide Position Isn’t Extreme?
Chad MacInnes | October 6, 2008
By Chad MacINNES Senator Obama came out swinging at John McCain a couple of weeks ago on his abortion positions, taking swipes at his “extreme” position against abortion, and his minions in the MSM are only too willing to deliver these ever-convoluted messages of the Prophet of Hope and Change. Just to be clear, Obama is the Prophet of Hope and Change only if you are not a child in the womb or newborn, for in these cases he is the prophet of doom. The AP printed an article entitled, “Obama calls out McCain on abortion.” Gee, with a title like that, you’d just have to assume Obama holds the correct position on abortion.
McCain is opposed to abortion except in cases where the life of the mother is in jeopardy, or in cases of rape and incest. He would prefer to see Roe overturned and the issue sent back to the states, where it belongs. In fact, Obama is so confident that he is in the right, he rails that McCain holds an “extreme position on choice” and “will make abortion illegal.”
It is difficult to wrap one’s mind around the fact that Obama does not see his position on abortion as extreme. As has been reported since he announced his candidacy, Obama favors unrestricted abortion to include lifting all bans on partial-birth abortion. Obama also fought hard to kill a bill in the Illinois State Senate that would have protected a newborn baby that survived a late-term induced-labor abortion. In fact, he is on the record on the floor of the State Senate as not merely speaking out against the bill, but in doing so making a convoluted argument as to why a baby born alive should not be afforded “human personhood” because it would “unduly encroach upon Roe.” Translated, that means, “I can’t afford to let these children live because I must retain my 100% rating from NARAL in order to received money from Planned Parenthood.”
Here is Obama in his own words on the floor of the Illinois State Senate:
“As I understand it, this puts the burden on the attending physician who has determined, since they were performing this procedure, that, in fact, this is a nonviable fetus; that if that fetus, or child – however way you want to describe it – is now outside the mother’s womb and the doctor continues to think that it’s nonviable but there’s, let’s say, movement or some indication that, in fact, they’re not just coming out limp and dead, that, in fact, they would then have to call a second physician to monitor and check off and make sure that this is not a live child that could be saved.”
To clarify his twisted reasoning Senator Obama explained it thus: “whenever we define a pre-viable fetus as a person that is protected by the Equal Protection Clause or the other elements in the Constitution, what we’re really saying is, in fact, that they are persons that are entitled to the kinds of protections that would be provided to a — a child, a 9-month old — child that was delivered to term. That determination then, essentially, if it was accepted by a court, would forbid abortions to take place. I mean, it — it would essentially bar abortions, because the Equal Protection Clause does not allow somebody to kill a child, and if this is a child, then this would be an anti-abortion statute.” [For audio of this testimony click here.]
Barack Obama has stated “the first thing I’d do as president“ would be to sign the Freedom of Choice Act, which would overturn every local, state, and federal abortion law passed in the past 35 years, and is thus inherently unconstitutional.
If that is not the extreme position of a murderous pro-infanticide zealot, then what is? This man is evil, and if not stopped we will all continue to suffer. Let us remember that Hitler did not just erect concentration camps overnight. Rather he was patient and deceptive, letting misinformation, propaganda and time do his most effective campaigning. Abortion on demand was first, then an infanticide much akin to the kind embraced by Obama. Then the benevolent and caring Fuhrer compassionately decided that the difficulties that would lay ahead in the lives of the severely disabled were too burdensome for them and their caretakers, and that the best choice would be to save them from such misery and allow them to die with dignity and cyanide gas. From the severely disabled the moderately disabled were targeted. From there it was but a short step to the merciless killing of anyone for any reason, which, of course, is exactly what happened.
Once a society is wholly desensitized to violence and once human life becomes devalued and such evils become part of the accepted fabric of that society, it becomes inevitable that terrible consequences are only a few electoral cycles and economic crises away. Politicians will always find scapegoats to save their own hides or to use exploitatively for their own personal gain. Do not be so foolish as to believe such things can never happen here – the German citizenry under the Weimar Republic would never have believed that such unspeakable evil could happen to their country, but it did. And all that was needed was fear, an economic crisis, threats of foreign aggression and a man who was at that time a prophet of hope and change for Germany.
First Hitler fed the people, then he made the trains run on time and rapidly restored the German national self-image by propelling it to major-power status shortly after consolidating the financial sector into the Reichsbank, nationalizing massive segments of the economy and means of industrial production. He did bring hope. He did bring change. Then he launched a government campaign based on a dangerous extremist ideology that had been only incrementally revealed and that killed millions in Germany and untold numbers throughout the world.
If the American people are so complacent as to believe in Obama’s empty promises and are too addicted to the culture of entitlement and government sponsored media propaganda to understand that the secular-humanist ideology that drives the man and his policies is actually devaluing of the whole of the human condition then this nation will continue its slide into the dark abyss of secular socialism and potentially something much worse. Those who are ignorant of history are condemned to repeat it. Let is pray that enough of our fellow citizens have learned sufficiently from the lessons of history to unite under the common cause of arresting the devolution of our republic into secular socialism.
Thanks to our Democrat and Republican politicians in Washington we have been moving “progressively” ever further to the left over the last several decades to the point where the government of today has all but abandoned the mandate of abiding within the confines of the Constitution but has sought instead the route of massive expansion and committing itself to the implementation of the ten core elements of socialism. These ten core elements of socialism as originally mandated by Karl Marx are:
1. Abolition of property in land and application of all rents of land to public purposes.
2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.
3. Abolition of all rights of inheritance.
4. Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels.
5. Centralization of credit in the hands of the state, by means of a national bank with State capital and an exclusive monopoly.
6. Centralization of the means of communication and transport in the hands of the State.
7. Extension of factories and instruments of production owned by the State; the bringing into cultivation of waste-lands, and the improvement of the soil generally in accordance with a common plan.
8. Equal liability of all to work. Establishment of industrial armies, especially for agriculture.
9. Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries; gradual abolition of all the distinction between town and country by a more equable distribution of the populace over the country.
10. Free education for all children in public schools. Abolition of children’s factory labor in its present form. Combination of education with industrial production, &c, &c.
History repeats itself only if we let it.
Chad MacINNES is an independent conservative author who originally hails from Massachusetts and is now living in Orlando Florida with his wife and children. He is a former pilot for a large US carrier, a former police officer and a veteran of the US Army where, incidentally, he was cured of his disordered liberalism. He has studied politics and government, international relations, philosophy and theology. His blog may be found at http://freebornman.blogtownhall.com/. Chad is a frequent contributor to landofthefree.net and may be contacted via email at c_macinnes@yahoo.com.
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