Remember When You Were a Pre-Viable Fetus?
Oct 8th, 2008 by Kevin Purcell
If you are confused, then don’t feel bad. That is the term Barack Obama used to describe babies who were "accidentally" born in Illinois hospitals. The article which describes his views made me angry. If current polls continue to hold strong then this man will be deciding who sits on the highest bench in the land and deciding whether or not to follow the constitution or make it up as they go (the latter philosophy is what led to Roe v. Wade).
The situation was this: back in 2001 there was a debate in the Illinois state legislature over a bill that would protect babies who were born alive despite attempts to abort them. These abortions were the kind where the doctor induces labor forcing the mother to give birth to her baby. Since most of them were done very early, it was unlikely that the babies would be born viable. They would quickly die. That alone is ghoulish enough. But some of these babies survived. The bill would have protected the latter category - babies whose mothers wanted them dead. Not exactly radical bill. How extreme to actually say a baby born alive and remaining alive should have protection as a person and kept alive. If a baby is born and survives we should care for it. But if the mother was intending for the baby to be still born or to die immediately, the doctors would take the baby to a room and let them die with no care whatsoever. Instead of being in the neo-natal ICU where they belonged, they were thrown out in the garbage (not literally, they were literally left in the dirty clothes room with the soiled sheets). When trying to kill the bill and thus kill the babies, Obama argued that these were not really people because they were not viable on their own. So he not only voted to keep killing these people, but he also argued eloquently in favor of the bill. Of course he doesn’t want common Americans to understand this now. The sad thing is he claims to be against abortion but in favor of choice. So either he favors abortion in the most ghoulish and extreme forms or he is willing to violate his own personal, moral views for political expediency. Either way he has a serious character flaw and should never be the person nominating judges for the Supreme Court. But unless something pretty dramatic happens it looks like he will be.
God helps us!
