Well I was all set to go back to writing funny, pithy little snide comments and remarks when I got an e-mail from a very good friend of mine. It seems that this abortion issue is just getting worse and worse. I really wasn’t planning on spending another post on the subject since MOST of you agreed with the position and the few dissenters did not seem to be so much pro-abortion as ‘seeking the right time that abortion could be abolished’. But that all changed with my quick edumacation today. It seems that my buddy Barack Obama is very excited about becoming President so that he can sign into law the bill (S. 1173, H.R. 1964) called “The Freedom of Choice Act” (FOCA) and as originally written was designed to codify** the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision. For me, that would be enough to say “No”; however as the bill has gone through the lawmaking process, it has picked up and (more importantly) dropped some very interesting (read alarming) verbiage.
**Codification is when existing laws and their amendments are rewritten so that they are no longer chronological but placed within their branch of law and the meanings of the decisions and amendments are ‘interpreted’ by those who write the bill. In this case, several pro-abortion Senators’ have taken the liberty of interpreting the decisions for us.
So, without sugar-coating anything, here are the ‘rights’ that Barack Obama wants to give to pregnant women and take away from unborn babies.
- Federally mandate the removal of laws in place to ensure abortion facilities meet health and safety regulations.
- Federally mandate the removal of ‘informed consent’ to abortion since these laws can lead to delay in abortion and are seen as interfering with the abortion process.
- Federally mandate that the government may not discriminate against the funding of abortion in publicly funded programs. Our tax dollars will now be required, from the Federal level, to be available to pay for abortions!
- Federally mandate the allowance of abortions after viability (partial-birth and late term abortions) with no stipulation for the health of the mother.
- Allow for the removal of the requirement that abortions be performed by a medically qualified physician.
- Removes the right of Conscientious Objection. In other words, physicians, hospitals and other medical personnel can be forced to perform or support abortions even if their moral principals are being violated.
- Removes the rights for parents to be involved/notified of their minor daughter’s decision to have an abortion.
So what does this all mean? Well, this is the most aggressive pro-abortion/anti-life piece of legislation ever drafted. In my opinion, Articles of War have been drafted with less certainty of holocaust. This bill literally rolls back every major advance that the pro-life movement has made since the 1973 decision of Roe v. Wade including those that were put in place to protect the health of the mother who decides to have an abortion. According to the NOW website: [The Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA)] would sweep away hundreds of anti-abortion laws, policies.”
As of today October 20, 2008, 4,797 Americans have died in the war in Iraq and Afghanistan; that’s just about 7 years worth of fighting. Senator Obama says this is too costly in lives and money. Today (and today alone) 3000 unborn children will die at the hands of abortionists; tomorrow 3000 more will die, the next day another 3000, and so on…These are not just numbers, these are lives and Barack Obama is chomping at the bit to sign this bill into law! If I knew nothing else about this man, I would tell you that you are either an idiot or you are evil if you vote for him to become President of the United States!
Perhaps you’ve heard that Nancy Pelosi is already making plans for a Lame Duck session of Congress the week following the election. If Barack Obama wins and the Liberals pick up a few more seats, they will force a lame duck session NOT to work on the economy, NOT to create an energy plan, they will meet to draft and bring forward massive amounts of medical, tax, and invasive legislation that will be ready for their new President to sign the moment he takes office. This bill is an example of their best work; they want to make it unsafe, easy and free for any girl or woman in the US to have an abortion.
If you haven’t seen this video yet (http://www.durarealidad.com/), please watch it. It was created by the man who is responsible for the movie Bella (thanks, Nicole). It is horrible and graphic and will hopefully make you sick to your stomach. If it doesn’t then you deserve the government that you will unleash upon the rest of us. One thing I do know is that John McCain and Sarah Palin WILL NOT SUPPORT this bill and they will do everything in their power to have it removed from the lawmaking process.
Pray, pray like you’ve never prayed before. Pray for John and Sarah but pray for Barack and Joe as well because if they do get elected, they WILL SEE this bill and the only thing that could stop someone from signing it into law is a conscience. Barack has not shown me one yet and if Joe has one, it is not strong enough to overcome his boss (not yet anyway).
This is so true and so scary!!!
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Great post. PS, I live in Woodbridge, VA too!!! Already have a job, but will pass on the information if it is still available.
Well certainly my anonymous friend. Which facts and untruths would you like for me to get straight first. The fact that people like you are responsible for over 3000 deaths a day (while probably protesting the war on moral grounds). 3000 was the most conservative number I could find (some were over 5000 per day). Is it the almost 5000 dead since the beginning of the Iraqi war? I got that number straight from http://www.cnn.com (I had to wash my fingertips after navigating there). Maybe it’s the synopsis of the Act that you don’t like. Feel free to read about it yourself, NOW and Planned Parenthood are BRAGGING about it on their websites. Maybe you just don’t like me calling you an idiot in front of all these readers. Keep making posts like the one above and I’m sure you’ll get used to it! Okay, that was mean and I apologize. I’m sure you were just looking for a way to express your opinion and to vent a little. Here is a link to a PDF describing in detail the things that I outline in the post (http://www.nchla.org/datasource/idocuments/pl-foca.pdf). It is provided by a certified attorney who (admittedly) works for an organization fighting against the passage of the Act however I think you will find the ‘facts’ accurate enough.
Please get your facts straight! There are some serious untruths in this blog entry. Not ideologic perhaps, but facts regarding the act itself.