President Obama had a penchant for voting "present" when he was an Illinois senator. He did this, many suspect, to have little on which future political opponents could point to as a radical position if (when) he decided to run for higher office. One vote on which Obama tipped his hand was an infamous vote against a ban on what is called "partial-birth abortion" and then went a step further: He opposed a bill to protect the life of a newborn human being that survived an abortion. Let's be clear here. A partial-birth abortion is a grisly (and medically unnecessary to save the life of the mother) procedure where the about-to-be-born, fully viable and fully-developed baby's head is allowed to pass through the birth canal and before the baby is fully delivered, the skull is punctured and the brains are literally sucked out with a vacuum. No baby can survive this. But sometimes during a regular abortion, the baby somehow survives and is born alive. Obama thought that if the intent was to abort and destroy this innocent life, then it was permissable to finish the job even after the baby was born. The old legal argument that legally a person is not a "person" until born is ignored. I should think that even the most ardent Obama supporter would consider this repulsive. Now President Obama holds the highest office in the land and is dictating the nation's health care law and cleverly masking his latest mandate that religious organizations pay for birth control in noble language like "woman's health," "preventive care," and "reproductive services." The implication being that anyone who opposes it is against women's health. Even the Roman Catholic Church is not opposed to birth control when used for medical reasons. But pregnancy is not a disease. In pushing his radical social agenda, Obama is so convinced of his righteousness, none of this matters. He considers the church has a fringe view and the First Amendment is just a bump in the road.
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