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OBAMA ACCUSES NATIONAL RIGHT TO LIFE OF LYING
MADISON, WI -- Last week the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC) released documents proving that Barack Obama has been blatantly covering up his actions as an Illinois state senator to actively defeat legislation to protect the lives of born, living, breathing babies who survive abortion attempts.

The documents included records from the Illinois state legislative committee Obama chaired revealing that Obama voted for language clarifying that a Born Alive bill would not in any way affect Roe v. Wade. But shockingly, Obama turned around and voted against the amended bill which contained the language he claims to this day would have made the bill acceptable to him.

"Obama was caught red-handed in his attempt to deceive the American people when NRLC released these documents," said Susan Armacost, Legislative Director for Wisconsin Right to Life.

Over the weekend, Obama continued the cover-up when he told CBN News correspondent David Brody that NRLC is lying about his actions on the Illinois Born Alive bill. Obama said, "I have said repeatedly that I would have been completely in, fully in support of the federal bill that everybody supported -- which was to say -- that you should provide assistance to any infant that was born -- even if it was as a consequence of an induced abortion. That was not the bill that was presented at the state level. What that bill also was doing was trying to undermine Roe v. Wade."

Then Obama attacked NRLC by telling Brody, "So, for people to suggest that I...somehow in favor of withholding life saving support from an infant born alive is ridiculous. It defies commonsense and it defies imagination and for people to keep on pushing this is offensive and it's an example of the kind of politics we have to get beyond. It's one thing for people to disagree with me about the issue of choice, it's another thing for people to out and out misrepresent my positions repeatedly, even after they know that they're wrong."

Douglas Johnson, NRLC Legislative Director, has issued the following challenge to Obama: "We now challenge Obama to either declare the two 2003 documents to be forgeries and call for an official investigation, or else apologize for his four years of misrepresentation on the issue of babies who are born alive during abortions -- and for calling us liars." 

"This issue is not going to go away," said Armacost. "Obama is still blatantly trying to cover up his infanticide votes and the American people deserve to know the truth."
Source: Standard Newswire, August 18, 2008

NEW DOCUMENTS SHOW BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA COVER-UP ON THE ILLINOIS BORN-ALIVE INFANTS PROTECTION ACT BILL
Last week Doug Johnson of the National Right to Life Committee drew my attention to a previously unnoticed January 2008 article by Terence Jeffrey stating Barack Obama actually did vote against a version of the IL Born Alive Infants Protection Act that was identical to the federal version, contrary to multiple public statements Obama or his surrogates have made to rationalize his opposition to the IL bill for the past 4 years. Since then we have found 2 separate documents proving Barack Obama has been misrepresenting facts. In fact, Barack Obama is more liberal than any U.S. senator, voting against identical language of a bill that body passed unanimously, 98-0. In fact, Barack Obama condones infanticide if it would otherwise interfere with abortion.
Source: Jill Stanek.com, August 11, 2008

TOP NARAL ACTIVIST PROMISES TO KEEP DEMOCRATIC PARTY PLATFORM PRO-ABORTION
Washington, DC -- Every four years Americans elect a president and both political parties hold conventions to coronate their nominee and build up excitement in advance of the November elections. They also review and approve party platforms and one top pro-abortion is ready to get involved. NARAL president Nancy Keenan informed her supporters on Tuesday that she is headed to Pittsburgh this Thursday to participate in the Democratic Party's platform committee meetings. When she's there, she promises to keep the party's position in support of unlimited abortions paid for at taxpayer expense in place. "On Thursday, I have the privilege of traveling to Pittsburgh to sit on the Democratic Party Platform Committee to discuss, amend, and ratify the party platform," she told NARAL members in an email. She urged the pro-abortion activists to send emails to members of the platform committee to keep the language as pro-abortion as possible. "Send a message to the Democratic Party Platform Committee by Thursday so that I can hand-deliver your petition to the Secretary of the Democratic National Committee,' she pleaded. Keenan promised to deliver the signed email petitions to Alice Germond, the Secretary of the Democratic National Committee. "We cannot take the Democratic Party's longtime pro-choice position for granted—we need to demonstrate our strength," Keenan said.
Source: LifeNews.com, August 5, 2008

ABORTION ADVOCATES TELL BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA: YOU BETTER PICK HILLARY CLINTON FOR VP
Washington, DC -- With just weeks to go before the Democratic convention at the end of August, pro-abortion activists have one message for their presidential nominee: you better pick Hillary Clinton as your running mate. Obama's decision could have a significant impact on the November elections. Several abortion advocates spoke with the political web site Politico and said Obama has an obligation to pick the woman who came the closest ever to becoming a major party's nominee for president. Geraldine Ferraro, the 1984 pro-abortion vice-presidential nominee, said Obama should be "gracious" enough to offer Clinton the vice-presidency because of her close second place finish. She said Obama can't pick any of the other pro-abortion women political pundits are speculating he might choose. "Those are women who we spent our lifetime helping run for office" and that "a lot of us are not happy with these women for not supporting Hillary because they came to us for help based in large part on their gender," she said. While Ferraro took the high road in the comments, other abortion activists pulled no punches. Clinton supporters "would be outraged to know she was not given that right of first refusal," Marcia Pappas, the head of the New York chapter of NOW, told Politico.
Source: LifeNews.com, August 4, 2008

SUPREME COURT, ABORTION IN THE BALANCE: OBAMA AND McCAIN SPLIT ON JUDGES
Opinion - As promised Monday, today we start a series of Today's News and Views which will convince anyone willing to listen to the facts that Sen. Barack Obama is pro-abortion to the hilt and that Sen. John McCain has never been given proper credit for his 100% voting record on abortion.  When pro-lifers think about the importance of presidential elections, near the very top of the list is the kind of Supreme Court nominee the candidate would send to the Senate. (Lower court appointments are also hugely important.)  The National Journal's Stuart Taylor provided a comprehensive look at this very question last week. (See www.nationaljournal.com/njmagazine/cs_20080726_6164.php) "Among the starkest contrasts between John McCain and Barack Obama is the dramatic difference in their promised approaches to judicial appointments, especially to the closely divided Supreme Court." His analysis is not without flaws. But, while some of the strokes are smudged, Taylor does essentially get the big picture right. Let me list the most important conclusions.
(LifeNews.com Note: Dave Andrusko is the editor of National Right to Life News and an author and editor of several books on abortion topics. He frequently writes Today's News and Views -- an online editorial column on pro-life issues).

BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA BEFORE PLANNED PARENTHOOD ACTION FUND
Source: Actual Transcript, July 17, 2007

BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA EMPHASIZING EQUAL PAY OVER ABORTION TO ATTRACT WOMEN VOTERS
Washington, DC -- Perhaps sensing that touting abortion has been a losing proposition for pro-abortion candidates in previous presidential elections, Barack Obama is using the issue of equal pay to attract women voters. The decision to de-emphasize abortion is meeting with surprising support from abortion activists. Last month, Obama kicked off what he called a "discussion for working women" with a speech directed at the Ledbetter Supreme Court case focusing on pay discrimination. Because Sen. John McCain, who favors equal pay, opposed a bill in the Senate that opens the doors for lawsuits and problems for employers, Obama is using that issue instead of abortion to reach out to independent and Republican women. The shift became apparent when Obama spoke at a rally with his former rival Sen. Hillary Clinton last week. “Usually, when we talk about the Court, it's in the context of reproductive rights and Roe v. Wade,” he said. “But the Supreme Court also affects women's lives in so many other ways" -- mentioning the equal pay issue.
Source: LifeNews, July 15, 2008

NAACP CONVENTION SEES BLACK PRO-LIFE ADVOCATES CONDEMN ABORTION
Cincinnati, OH -- Yesterday, African-Americans kicked off the 99th annual conference for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Though Barack Obama was on-hand as the first black presidential candidate, black pro-life advocates there said he doesn't represent them. Several pastors and dozens of black pro-life people, including NAACP members, said the organization shouldn't turn a blind eye to how abortion disproportionately hurts black women. The protestors included Dr. Alveda King, a niece of the Rev. Martin Luther King who told the Wall Street Journal she knows what abortion does to women -- having had two abortions herself. "I remember when I was pregnant and considering a third abortion," she says. "I went to Daddy King [her grandfather and Martin Luther King's father]. He told me, 'that's a baby, not a blob of tissue,'" she explained.
Source: LifeNews, July 15, 2008

BLACK CHURCHES HOLD PRO-ABORTION MEETING, CALL PRO-LIFERS "FETUS LOVERS"
Washington, DC -- Representatives of several black churches held a meeting with pro-abortion activists at Howard University in Washington this week. During the presentation, the head of the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice criticized black pro-life advocates as "fetus lovers."  But not all black leaders agree with that assessment. "It is time for the black community to wake up and come out of its denial," he said." "True racism is the attack on the black unborn baby, started by Margaret Sanger and carried out by the liberal elite in this country," he said. "The solution to this problem is a strong belief in the Creator, strong families, and self-respect." Peterson joined with other pro-life leaders this week to sign the Emancipation Proclamation for the Unborn, a document that is similar to the one President Abraham Lincoln signed to free African-Americans from slavery. "Although President Lincoln's signing of the Emancipation Proclamation did not immediately free one slave, it changed the character of a nation," he said. "Today we will sign another proclamation that will change a nation. We will no longer accept the killing of innocent children, boys and girls, black and white. We will no longer tolerate the racism that lurks within Planned Parenthood," Peterson concluded.
Source: LifeNews, July 15, 2008

PRO-LIFE GROUP: BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA CAMP DOESN'T DENY TAX-FUNDED ABORTION OK
Washington, DC -- A pro-life group that has launched a new campaign highlighting presidential candidate Barack Obama's support for taxpayer-funded abortions says his campaign hasn't denied that's the case. In its official response, the Obama campaign said nothing to refute the contention. Earlier this week, the Christian Defense Coalition launched a national campaign called, "Barack Obama: The Abortion President." It features advertisements and a media campaign focused on an imagine of Uncle Sam with Obama's face saying, "I want you to pay for abortions." The group stressed that Senator Obama would have all Americans pay for abortions both here and abroad under his health care plan and other policies.
Source: LifeNews, July 11, 2008

NEW CATHOLICS FOR BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA GROUP STARTS, CONSIDERS ABORTION DIVISIVE
Washington, DC -- After the Barack Obama campaign appeared to have dissolved its internal group to build support among Catholics, a new voter-driven group has been created to support the pro-abortion candidate. The organization, 10,000 Catholics for Obama, hopes to build a grassroots efforts to lure Catholics. As LifeNews.com reported last month, following significant national criticism it appeared the Obama campaign dissolved the first Catholic outreach effort. Catholic League President Bill Donahue had called on Obama to disestablish his National Advisory Council because of evidence showing the majority of the members of the council had received 100 percent voting marks from extreme pro-abortion group NARAL. Now, the 10,000 Catholics group has been created and, according to a CBN news report, it is operating independent of the Obama campaign although it has consulted with campaign staff. Peter James Kralovec, one of the creators of the group's web site, talked with CBN News correspondent David Brody about the organization. He said the Catholics who are backing Obama want the abortion issue de-emphasized even though the Catholic Church has said no political issue is more important.
Source: LifeNews, July 10, 2008

BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA SLAMS JOHN McCAIN FOR OPPOSING ABORTION, ACTIVIST JUDGES
Washington, DC -- With pro-life advocates and John McCain's campaign criticizing his position in favor of unlimited abortions, Barack Obama struck back on Thursday. The Illinois senator put forward an absolutist position in favor of abortion and attacked McCain for wanting judges who don't make law from the bench. "I will never back down in defending a woman's right to choose," Obama said at a breakfast fundraiser with an internal campaign group called "Women for Obama." "That's what's at stake," Obama added, referring to control of the Supreme Court and whether abortion will remain legal and without limits for another 35 years. "Senator McCain has made it abundantly clear that he wants to appoint justices like Roberts and Alito -- and that he hopes to see Roe overturned," Obama said, according to an AP report. "I stand by my votes against confirming Justices Roberts and Alito."
Source: LifeNews, July 10, 2008

PLANNED PARENTHOOD BACKS BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA TO REWARD PRO-ABORTION POSTITION
Washington, DC -- Planned Parenthood, the nation's largest abortion business, made it official on Monday and issued its presidential endorsement for Barack Obama. The group rewarded the senator for his speech last year, where he pledged to only appoint abortion advocates to the Supreme Court. “The Planned Parenthood Action Fund is proud to endorse Barack Obama for president of the United States,” president Cecile Richards said in a press release LifeNews.com obtained. Richards called him a "passionate advocate" with a "a long and consistent record of standing up for" unlimited abortions. (Read the entire transcript of  BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA BEFORE PLANNED PARENTHOOD ACTION FUND).
Source: LifeNews, July 8, 2008

BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA SO EXTREME ON ABORTION HE WOULD LET BABIES DIE WHO SURVIVE
A CNN reporter interviewing me a couple weeks ago about Barack Obama's opposition as state senator to the Illinois Born Alive Infants Protection Act groaned more than once that this topic was "complicated." She was referring to Obama's various explanations through the years for blocking Born Alive and lately his outright denial that obstructing legislation declaring live aborted babies legal persons had anything to do with endorsing their death. I finally emailed her, "It is clear: Obama strongly opposed legislation to protect abortion survivors. This is horrible, so of course he will try to make it 'complicated,' but it is not."
Source: LifeNews.com July 9, 2008
(Note: Jill Stanek is a former Chicago-area nurse who brought national exposure to the practice of live-birth abortions. Those involve the purposeful birth of a baby prematurely for the purpose of killing her and she exposed how Christ Hospital in Oak Lawn, Illinois would not care for the babies after their birth. That led to a national bill Congress passed and President Bush signed to require appropriate medical care).

NEW REPORT INDICATES VOTERS MOST INTERESTED IN BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA'S POSITION ON ABORTION
Washington, DC -- A new report shows voters are interested in the position Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama takes on abortion. The Internet traffic monitoring firm HitWise indicates abortion is now the number one political issue voters are looking for when they conduct a search on Obama’s campaign web site. Hitwise analyzed the top 200 U.S. search terms that sent visits to the presidential candidates’ websites for the first half of 2008, revealing the types of content searched for the most among Internet users. Issues like education, the environment, health care and immigration are important to visitors on Obama’s web site, but HitWise says abortion tops them all.
Source: LifeNews, July 3, 2008

CATHOLIC COLUMNIST DEAL HUSDON: VOTE AGAINST BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA OVER ABORTION
Washington, DC -- Leading Catholic columnist Deal Hudson has written a new national editorial saying pro-life Catholics should reject Barack Obama because of his pro-abortion positions. Hudson says Obama is so out of line with Catholic teaching on abortion that he can't be supported for president. "There's no way to nuance this: Barack Obama's record puts him on the extreme wing of the abortion movement," Hudson says. Though some critics have labeled Obama the "infanticide candidate" because of his repeated opposition to a bill to protect infants born after botched abortions, Hudson says Obama is still gaining traction with Catholic voters. "Barack Obama’s stances on life ... are simply antithetical to Catholic social teaching," Hudson adds. Hudson lamented that some Catholics like Pepperdine professor Doug Kmiec are confusing Catholic voters by saying Obama is good enough on abortion simply because he opposes abortions despite not supporting policies to reduce or stop them.
Source: LifeNews, July 3, 2008

BARACK OBAMA'S FLOWERY WORDS CAN'T COVER UP EXTREME PRO-ABORTION POSITION
Opinion -- Well, it's official. Barack Obama is the presumptive nominee; Al Gore has presented his imprimatur and the media, well, they are fawning all over Obama. But if Barack Obama is elected in November, those who have performed and promoted abortions will have found a new champion. And make no mistake, he will champion their cause. Barack Obama's language on abortion is loose and the delivery is designed to allow the listener to walk away feeling good about how the message was conveyed. This is intentional.
Source: LifeNews.com Note: Laura Echevarria is a LifeNews.com opinion columnist. She is the former Director of Media Relations and a spokesperson for the National Right to Life Committee and has been a radio announcer, freelance writer active in local politics.

FOCUS ON THE FAMILY HEAD JAMES DOBSON CRITICIZES BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA ON ABORTION
Washington, DC -- Leading pro-life advocate James Dobson, the head of Focus on the Family, is criticizing Barack Obama over his pro-abortion position. Obama has begun trying to reach out to evangelical voters to disrupt John McCain's base, but Dobson says Obama is using a phony set of Christian views to do so. Dobson has a national radio program set to air today that responds to Obama's views and recent request from his campaign to meet with Dobson. The Associated Press obtained an advance copy of the program, and it indicated Dobson reserved his harshest criticism for Obama's position that abortion should be legal without limits and paid for at taxpayer expense. Dobson said Obama employs the "lowest common denominator of morality" and called it a "fruitcake interpretation of the Constitution." "This is why we have elections, to support what we believe, to be wise and moral. We don't have to go to the lowest common denominator of morality which is what he is suggesting," Dobson said. "Am I required in a democracy to conform my efforts in the political arena to his bloody notion of what is right with regard to the lives of tiny babies?" Dobson said. "What he's trying to say here is unless everybody agrees, we have no right to fight for what we believe."
Source: LifeNews, June 24, 2008

TOP PRO-ABORTION ACTIVIST MEETS WITH BARACK OBAMA'S CAMPAIGN MANAGER
Washington, DC -- Underscoring the close relationship presidential candidate Barack Obama will have with abortion activists if he's elected, his top campaign manager met with one of the key leaders of the pro-abortion movement. Ellen Malcolm, founder of Emily's List, met with campaign manager David Plouffe. The meeting took place at the Obama campaign headquarters in Chicago on Tuesday. While there is no transcript and not much in the way of news about the content of the discussions, it appears Obama and the pro-abortion group are on the same page. Malcolm would only tell CNN that the meeting, which took longer than an hour, was "great." Emily's List Executive Director Ellen Moran and Obama's deputy campaign manager Steve Hildebrand were also present for the powwow.
Source: LifeNews, June 17, 2008

DOUGLAS KMIEC CONTINUES FALSE CLAIM THAT BARACK OBAMA OPPOSES ABORTION
Washington, DC -- Catholic Professor Douglas Kmiec made national news over the past two weeks when he was denied communion for endorsing pro-abortion presidential candidate Barack Obama. Kmiec is in the news again on Monday with a new article making the false claim that Barack Obama is pro-life on abortion. Kmiec writes on Obama's position on abortion in an editorial that appears in Monday's Chicago Tribune and he discusses the recent meeting Obama had with several religious leaders. In his editorial, Kmiec says much of the discussion revolved around the issue of abortion and he tried to make the argument that Obama has a compassionate position that is essentially pro-life. Obama said he earnestly wants to "discourage" abortions from happening "despite the distortions of some who think if they affix the 'pro-abortion--won't overturn-Roe-label' to the senator, pro-lifers like myself won't give him the time of day," Kmiec writes. Yet, Obama has repeatedly said not only that he will not appoint judges who will consider the possibility of overturning Roe, he will only appoint judges who will uphold Roe and keep unlimited abortions legal throughout the entirety of pregnancy for another 35 years. "I would not appoint somebody who doesn't believe in the right to privacy," Obama said in a November 2007 debate -- hardly a pro-life position.
Source: LifeNews, June 16, 2008

PRO-ABORTION GROUP'S LEADERSHIP COMES TOGETHER TO UNITE FOR BARACK OBAMA
Washington, DC -- Leaders of pro-abortion group Emily's List came together with candidates and activists at a swanky dinner Thursday to unite under a new banner: Barack Obama. The organization was solidly behind Hillary Clinton during the primary but its focus is now on getting the pro-abortion Obama in the White House. Ellen Malcolm is the president and founder of group that typically endorses only pro-abortion Democratic women who support partial-birth abortions and taxpayer-funded abortions. She said abortions advocates now have to work for Barack Obama and denounced both John McCain and George Bush, calling them "two peas" in the same pro-life pod.
Source: LifeNews, June16, 2008

OBAMA'S ABORTION BOMBSHELL: UNRESTRICTED ABORTION OVER WISHES OF INDIVIDUAL STATES A PRIORITY FOR PRESIDENCY
Washington, D.C.-- Barack Obama, the presumptive pro-abortion nominee of the Democratic Party, has plans to reward the allies that helped him topple Hillary Clinton from her throne by making total unrestricted abortion in the United States his number one priority as president. In light of Obama's recently achieved status as the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, Focus on the Family's CitizenLink has decided to remind its supporters that almost one year has passed since Obama made his vows to the Planned Parenthood Action Fund that abortion would be the first priority of his administration. "The first thing I'd do as president is sign the Freedom of Choice Act," Obama said in his July speech to abortion advocates worried about the increase of pro-life legislation at the state level. The Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA) is legislation Obama has co-sponsored along with 18 other senators that would annihilate every single state law limiting or regulating abortion, including the federal ban on partial birth abortion.
Source: LifeSiteNews, June10, 2008

TOP PRO-ABORTION GROUP EMILY'S LIST ENDORSES BARACK OBAMA FOR PRESIDENT
Washington, DC -- Another top pro-abortion group says it's in Barack Obama's corner in his battle for the White House against John McCain. Emily's List released a statement today saying it is behind Obama now that he has virtually wrapped up the Democratic nomination. Ellen R. Malcolm, the president of the group, released a statement today saying she supports the pro-abortion senator. "Now that the primaries have concluded, I wholeheartedly congratulate Sen. Barack Obama. He has inspired millions of Americans and shown that he is more than ready to take on Sen. John McCain," she said. "The differences between Sens. Obama and McCain dwarf the nuanced policy differences between Obama and Clinton," she added. "We can never forget what John McCain stands for: a steadfast determination to overturn Roe vs. Wade."
Source: LifeNews, June 6, 2008

ASSOCIATED PRESS HIDES BARACK OBAMA'S PRO-ABORTION VIEWS IN NEW ANALYSIS
The Associated Press ran a news story on Tuesday saying Barack Obama has captured enough delegates to become the Democratic presidential nominee. On the heels of the article AP trotted out a comparison piece contrasting Obama and eventual GOP nominee John McCain on top issues. However, the Associated Press piece contains a glaring error. It fails to fully articulate the manner in which Obama has pressed the drumbeat for abortion. Barack Obama began his presidential campaign in July 2007 spending time with his friends at Planned Parenthood, the nation's number one abortion business. He promised the pro-abortion group the first thing he would do as president is sign into law a bill that not only makes the abortion-on-demand-throughout-pregnancy ruling of Roe v. Wade the national law of the land, but overturns every single pro-life limit ever enacted by any of the 50 state legislatures.
Source: LifeNews, June 3, 2008

PRO-LIFE DEMOCRAT NAT HENTOFF CAN'T SUPPORT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA OVER ABORTION
Washington, DC -- Leading pro-life Democrat Nat Hentoff wrote a national editorial on Tuesday saying he had considered supporting Barack Obama for president. That was until he investigated Obama's record on abortion and found that the Illinois lawmaker essentially supported infanticide. "I was once strongly inclined to vote for Barack Obama for president (assuming he won his party's nomination)," Hentoff said in the column. "But then I learned Obama's voting record on abortion," he added. Hentoff explained how he is a non-religious pro-life advocate who bases his views on the protections the Constitution affords human life. Having voted for pro-abortion candidates in the past based on other political issues, his decision to not back Obama is significant. "I admire much of Obama's record," Hentoff continues, "but on abortion, Obama is an extremist."
Source: LifeNews, June 3, 2008

MICHELLE OBAMA UNDER FIRE FOR 2004 LETTER DEFENDING PARTIAL-BIRTH ABORTIONS
Washington, DC -- Michelle Obama, the attorney wife of pro-abortion Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, is coming under fire for a letter she wrote defending partial-birth abortions. The 2004 letter, written to help Obama in his campaign for his U.S. Senate seat, opposes the ban on the abortion procedure. In February 2004, Michelle Obama penned a fundraising letter to help her husband Barack raise funds for his Illinois-based Senate seat. The letter contends the federal ban on partial-birth abortions "is clearly unconstitutional" and "a flawed law." Though the three-day-long partial-birth abortion procedure involves the partial birth of a baby during the middle trimester of pregnancy and the jamming of scissors into the back of her head to kill her, Obama's wife describes it as "legitimate" medicine. "The fact remains, with no provision to protect the heath of the mother, this ban on a legitimate medical procedure is clearly unconstitutional and must be overturned," Michelle Obama writes in the letter.
Source: LifeNews, May 21, 2008

BARACK OBAMA DEFENDS OPPOSITION TO PARTIAL-BIRTH ABORTION BAN IN INTERVIEW
Washington, DC -- In a Sunday interview, pro-abortion presidential candidate Barack Obama defended his opposition to a ban on partial-birth abortions. Though he wasn't in Congress at the time it voted on the ban, he said he would have supported it had it contained a health exception. However, doctors and medical groups readily acknowledge that the three-day-long abortion procedure -- involving the killing of an unborn baby halfway through the birthing process - never helps women medically. In an interview on Fox News Sunday, Obama said, "On an issue like partial-birth abortion, I strongly believe that the state can properly restrict late-term abortions. I have said so repeatedly. All I've said is we should have a provision to protect the health of the mother, and many of the bills that came before me didn't have that." In addition to providing no medical benefit for women, pro-life groups oppose a health exception because they typically allow virtually all abortions to remain legal. In this case, the health exception, which the Supreme Court ruled was not required in the federal partial-birth abortion ban, would have gutted the legislation. Obama also claimed pro-life advocates only brought the partial-birth abortion ban forward to "polarize" the abortion debate. "Now, part of the reason they didn't have [the health exception] was purposeful, because those who are opposed to abortion — and I don't begrudge that at all. They have a moral calling to try to oppose what they think is immoral," he said. "Oftentimes what they were trying to do was to polarize the debate and make it more difficult for people, so that they could try to bring an end to abortions overall," Obama contended.
In a speech before Planned Parenthood in July 2007, Obama decried the recent Supreme Court decision upholding the partial-birth abortion ban.
Source: LifeNews, April 27, 2008

OBAMA CAMP "FLATTERED" BY HAMAS COMPLIMENT
Terror group compared senator to JFK in its endorsement of him for president
Barack Obama's campaign said yesterday it is "flattered" that Hamas' endorsement of the Illinois senator compared him to John F. Kennedy, though it objects to any diplomatic contact with the terrorist group. "I like John Kennedy too," said chief Obama strategist David Axelrod. "That's about the only thing we have in common with this gentleman from Hamas. We all agree that John Kennedy was a great president, and it's flattering when anybody says that Barack Obama would follow in his footsteps." Axelrod was reacting to comments earlier this week from Ahmed Yousuf, Hamas' top political adviser in the Gaza Strip, who said Hamas "hopes" Obama will win the presidential elections and "change" America's foreign policy. "I hope Mr. Obama and the Democrats will change the political discourse. ... I do believe [Obama] is like John Kennedy, a great man with a great principal. And he has a vision to change America to make it in a position to lead the world community, but not with humiliation and arrogance," Yousuf said during an exclusive interview with WND and WABC-New York radio's John Batchelor.
Source: World Net Daily, April 17, 2008

BARACK OBAMA'S PRO-ABORTION BABY IS "PUNISHMENT" COMMENT UPSETS BLACK LEADER
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- An African-American pro-life leader says she's very upset to hear of the recent remarks pro-abortion Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama made recently. Obama shocked pro-life advocates when he said he wouldn't want his young daughters "punished" with a baby should they become pregnant as teenagers. "I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby," Obama said. Day Gardner, the president of the National Black Pro-Life Union, told LifeNews.com on Thursday she's blown away by Obama's comment. Gardner worries Americans will be "punished" with a president who won't stand up for the lives of all people, either before or after birth. "I will never call a baby a 'mistake,'" the former Miss America finalist said. We are all put here for a reason. But that aside, aren't we supposed to help our children learn from their 'mistakes?'" she asked. "The consequences or circumstances a young woman may face with an unplanned pregnancy need not include the cruel and vicious killing of her child," Gardner explained
Source: LifeNews, April 10, 2008

OBAMA'S ABORTION EXTREMISM
Sen. Robert P. Casey Jr.'s endorsement of Barack Obama last week -- "I believe in this guy like I've never believed in a candidate in my life" -- recalled another dramatic moment in Democratic politics. In  the summer of 1992, as Bill Clinton  http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/Bill+Clinton?tid=informline
solidified his control over the Democratic Party http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/U.S.+Democratic+Party?tid=informline, Robert P. Casey Sr., the senator's father, was banned from speaking to the Democratic convention for the heresy of being pro-life. The elder Casey (now deceased) was then the governor of Pennsylvania http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/Pennsylvania?tid=informline one of the most prominent elected Democrats in the country. He was an economic progressive in the Roosevelt tradition. But his Irish Catholic conscience led him to oppose abortion. So the Clintons chose to humiliate him. It was a sign and a warning of much mean-spirited pettiness to come. The younger Casey, no doubt, is a sincere fan of Obama http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/Barack+Obama?tid=informline. He also must have found it satisfying to help along the cycle of political justice. But by Casey's father's standard of social justice for the unborn, Obama is badly lacking. Obama has not made abortion rights the shouted refrain of his campaign, as other Democrats have done. He seems to realize that pro-choice enthusiasm is inconsistent with a reputation for post-partisanship.

But Obama's record on abortion is extreme. He opposed the ban on partial-birth abortion -- a practice a fellow Democrat, the late Daniel Patrick Moynihan, once called "too close to infanticide." Obama strongly criticized the Supreme Court decision upholding the partial-birth ban. In the Illinois http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/Illinois?tid=informline state Senate, he opposed a bill similar to the Born-Alive Infants Protection Act, which prevents the killing of infants mistakenly left  alive by abortion. And now Obama has oddly claimed that he would not  want his daughters to be "punished with a baby" because of a crisis pregnancy -- hardly a welcoming attitude toward new life. For decades, most Democrats and many Republicans have hoped the political debate on abortion would simply go away. But it is the issue that does not die. Recent polls have shown that young people are more likely than their elders to support abortion restrictions. Few  Americans oppose abortion under every circumstance, but a majority oppose most of the abortions that actually take place -- generally supporting the procedure only in the case of rape or incest, or to save the life of the mother.

Perhaps this is a revolt against a culture of disposability. Perhaps it reflects the continuing revolution of ultrasound technology -- what might be called the "Juno" effect. In the delightful movie by that name, the protagonist, a pregnant teen seeking an abortion, is confronted by a classmate who informs her that the unborn child already has fingernails -- which causes second thoughts. A worthless part of its mother's body -- a clump of protoplasmic rubbish -- doesn't have fingernails.

Abortion is an unavoidable moral issue. It also has broader political  significance. Democrats of a past generation -- the generation of  Hubert Humphrey http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/Hubert+Humphrey?tid=informline
and Martin Luther King Jr. http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/Martin+Luther+King+Jr?tid=informline spoke about building a beloved community that cared especially for the elderly, the weak, the disadvantaged and the young. The advance of pro-choice policies imported a different ideology into the Democratic Party -- the absolute triumph of individualism. The rights and choices of adults have become paramount, even at the expense of other, voiceless members of the community. These trends reached their logical culmination during a congressional  debate on partial-birth abortion in 1999. When Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/Barbara+Boxer?tid=informline was pressed to affirm that she opposed the medical killing of children after birth, she refused to commit, saying that children deserve legal protection only "when you bring your baby home." It was unclear whether this included the car trip.

Having endorsed partial-birth abortion, Obama has little room to  maneuver on the broader issue. But he does have some. He could take the wise counsel of evangelical Democrats such as Amy Sullivan and come out strongly for policies that would reduce the number of abortions -- support for pregnant women, abstinence education, the responsible promotion of birth control. An organization called Democrats for Life has proposed the creation of a "95-10 Initiative"  in which states and the federal government would work toward the reduction of abortion rates by 95 percent within 10 years. That would be a unifying national goal. Such efforts will not please many pro-lifers, who are waiting on Obama to support any type of legal protection for the unborn. But a real effort to reduce the number of abortions would indicate that Obama's Democratic Party is moving beyond its humiliation of Gov. Casey. And maybe Sen. Robert P. Casey Jr. http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/Bob+Casey?tid=informline, with his newfound leverage, could insist upon it.
Source: Michael Gerson, April 2, 2008

BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA BEFORE PLANNED PARENTHOOD ACTION FUND
Source: Actual Transcript, July 17, 2007

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