Let’s say that Barack Obama were more to my liking all-around. Suppose he wanted to eliminate government programs, cut spending, reduce taxes across the board, and reduce government regulation of private industry. Those issues are very important to me, and any candidate who would do those things would have my vote, except. . .
I could never, ever, ever vote for a candidate who would not vote to protect the life of a baby.
I know that I have written about it before, and I know that the starry-eyed Obama supporters have disagreed with me, but I feel compelled to write about it again.
We are not talking about a clump of cells or an unidentifiable mass of tissue. We are talking about a baby who has taken his or her first breath of air outside the womb. We are talking about a baby whose chord has been cut, and who is a separate, living human being. The pro-choice folks always want to say that it is a fetus when it is in the womb and only becomes a baby when it is outside the mother’s womb. Well, then we’re talking about babies, not fetuses.
The Born Alive Infant Protection Act is just what its name says. It’s not about Roe v Wade or about a woman’s “right to choose.” It is not about pre-viable fetuses or a doctor’s relationship with his patient. It’s about giving legal protection to babies that survive an abortion attempt–just as we give to all other babies who are born alive.
Obama opposed it, saying, “an additional doctor who then has to be called in an emergency situation and make these assessments is really designed simply to burden the original decision of the woman.” Please understand whom and what you are supporting, if you vote for Obama. He was not talking about opposing a second doctor to approve an abortion. He opposed the calling in of another doctor to decide whether or not to provide medical treatment, food, and hydration to a living, breathing baby outisde its mother’s womb.
If you agree that a baby born alive should be left to die, then by all means, vote for Barack Obama. But if you find that completely barbaric, as I do, then listen to your conscience.
FOR FURTHER READING
Mona Charen, “Abortions Do Sometimes Produce Live Births“
FactCheck.org, “Obama and ‘Infanticide’“
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Longing for Holiday // September 19, 2008 at 10:15 pm |
I have said elsewhere in the blogosphere (o, that was my last blog!) that one day we will look back on this time in history and with horror see clearly what we have been doing: taking the lives of our children.