Posted by
Tracey O'Donnell on Friday, January 30, 2009 11:19:16 AM
Surely there is good news for pro-lifers and unborn children
everywhere. We have a president
who will right the moral wrongs of previous generations and restore the
justice and equality of our founding principles to American public policy. He has said so himself.
Don’t be fooled by our new President’s swift, off-camera
contribution of our tax dollars to foreign abortionists last Friday. He is passionately devoted to the
well-being of future generations:
“Let it be said by our children’s children that…with eyes fixed on
the horizon and God’s grace upon us, we carried forth that great gift of
freedom and delivered it safely to future generations.” (Inaugural address)
Lest you infer from his self-purported eagerness to ratify the UN Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination
Against Women (CEDAW) that President Obama would use government to actively
foment abortion abroad, fear not.
He respects the “broader principle: that government should not intrude on our most private
family matters.” (Jan 22, 2009)
Should you read alliance of power into then-State-Senator
Obama’s cooperation with Illinois Planned Parenthood to prevent any factor
(like the young age of the mother or the advanced age of the baby) from
hindering access to abortion, take heart:
In his inaugural address our fair-minded president reminded us that “a
nation cannot prosper long when it favors only the prosperous.”
If you are dismayed that President Obama approves of the
Supreme Court’s (Roe v. Wade – 1973) denial of personhood to the unborn, in
order to justify withholding their basic
human rights, remember what has become known as Obama’s “More Perfect Union”
speech. Remember that he rejects this shameful ruse as it was once used to deny
blacks their freedom. Remember how
movingly he denounced the injustice of
“legalized discrimination,”
and “opportunity…systematically constricted,” and “the brutal legacy of slavery and
Jim Crow.” Remember how he concluded that
we must “insist on a full measure of justice in every aspect of
American life.”
Surely a man who opposes the abuse of power and State intrusion
into private matters cannot condone government taking the side of the
enfranchised against the helpless.
Surely a man with a particular cultural sensitivity to the ploys the
powerful will use to protect their dominance cannot use those same tactics
against others.
Surely as he crisscrossed the country, this righteous man
did not fail to notice the popular bumper sticker “Everyone who supported
slavery was free. Everyone who
supports abortion was born. That
is how oppression works.”
Surely a man privileged to have “gone to some of the best
schools in America and lived in one of the world’s poorest nations” can put two and two together.
Surely.