Obama’s abortion stance is proof enough

Third-graders in Virginia are taught that a human life begins with the union of sperm and egg, yet Sen. Barack Obama stated at Saddleback Church in California in August that the question of when life begins was “above his pay grade.”

And Obama wants to be leader of the free world?

His policies clearly will increase legal abortions if he is elected president.

Barack Obama told Planned Parenthood that the first thing he wants to do as president is sign the “Freedom of Choice Act” which will end all restrictions on abortion, including laws requiring parental or informed consent, peaceful clinic demonstrations, conscience clauses for medical personnel opposed to abortion and bans on public funding for elective abortion. 

Obama voted against legislation that would have provided medical care for babies born alive who survived a late-term abortion. The New York Sun on Aug. 18 reported that Obama mischaracterized his vote on that bill, as his campaign later acknowledged. Barack Obama supports partial-birth abortion which crushes the skull and evacuates the brains of living children while they are in the birth process. He voted no on a 2006 law that prohibited taking a minor across a state line for an abortion to avoid parental notice.

Sen. John McCain opposes legal abortion after conception. His running mate, Gov. Sarah Palin, agrees. She champions the rights of special needs children like her Downs Syndrome son and autistic children. Unlike Obama, Palin does not think the circumstances of one’s conception should be a death warrant for a child. 

“I’ve got two daughters,” Obama said in Johnstown, Pa., this year. “If they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.” 

Obama’s fervid support for abortion even after birth offers us an insight into the character of the man making decisions. Is this the man you want to have his finger on the nuclear trigger or deal with foreign tyrants? Is this the man you will trust with our wealth, our daughters, our sons, our future and our democratic institutions?

Del. Robert Marshall
Prince William County