The Obama victory a defeat for the unborn

A pro-abortion agenda.

Barack Obama Captures Win Over John McCain, Expected to Promote Abortions

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Presidential candidate Barack Obama captured a victory on Tuesday night in the presidential elections over John McCain. Under an Obama administration, pro-life advocates are concerned about the promotion of abortion.

Under an Obama administration pro-life advocates expect the new president to force taxpayer-funding of abortions, make detrimental Supreme Court appointments and sign a Congressional bill to overturn pro-life laws nationwide.

Obama won 338 electoral college votes compared with 156 for McCain by winning in battleground states like Pennsylvania, Florida, Ohio and Virginia and the western states of Colorado, Nevada and New Mexico.

McCain was able to win only a handful of the battleground states and failed to capture enough votes to become the next president.

With an Obama victory, pro-life advocates will immediately be on the defensive.

Obama is expected to make funding abortions one of his first actions as president and he could overturn the Mexico City Policy on his first day in office. That’s the presidential policy that prevents taxpayers from being forced to fund groups that engage in performing or promoting abortions in other nations.

Senator Obama could also immediately overturn the policy Preside Bush put in place to prevent taxpayer funding of new embryonic stem cell research. That could happen even though embryonic stem cells have never helped a human patient and have had problems when used in animals.

Pro-life advocates are concerned Obama will push through a bill in Congress, known as the Freedom of Choice Act, that would make unlimited abortions throughout pregnancy the national law by codifying Roe v. Wade.

However, the bill would go further by overturning all of the abortion reduction laws in all 50 states -- including measures such as informed consent, parental involvement and conscience clauses for medical professionals.

Ultimately, the pro-life movement is concerned that Obama will appoint new Supreme Court judges who will uphold the Roe decision for another 35 years. With at least two or three high court judges nearly retirement and having health problems it’s not inconceivable that Obama could have the ability to pick a new judge or two during his term.

Comments

[Dr. Frederick F. Guida]

Because pro life people always compromise we are left with no way to stop the killing from a political perspective.
Similar condition already exists in other countries, IE Spain.
Primary fault I feel is that of the Bush administration sidelining conservative party with their neoconservative ideologies instead, and the Catholic church which refuses to enforce in house rules to flush kerry kenedy catholics out IE offering the eucharist to Biden, pelosi,Juliani, etc, and giving platforms for abortion approving politicians to speak, IE the obama at the Alfred Smith dinner just prior to the election. And sitting with the Cardinal as an extra insult. I hope the archdiocese of NY made good money there because my conscience forbids me to not contribute any longer to any of their causes. There are plenty of orthodox, non compromising organizations where I can donate my tithe.
Situation seem to me to be similar to that of nazi Germany, where the pope and magisterium boldly forbade support of Hitler but the local clerics said voting for him is alright as long as it is not done for his eugenic policies. Some also rationalized it would be alright because you never know when he might convert. Magical delusional thinking and an outright state of denial if there ever was one and very similiar to what we have now considering that even the majority of in our religious orders voted for the obamessiah.
Most Catholics would favor abortion no matter what because they always need the convenience of it being there as a default option when contraception fails and because most of them are bigots and like the way it decimates the minority populations,IE more babies were aborted last month in the b
Bronx than were born alive.

[tom faranda]

Fred

You are ohh so right about the failure of the Bishops. it takes them 36 years to figure out tht politicians promoting abortion should refrain from communion? Shameful. They may have to do some tough explaining, come Judgement Day.

[Judith Anderson]

The Church's inability to speak with a united voice will hurt the unborn and the Church itself in increasingly painful ways in the months and years ahead. You have two factions each involving clergy, lay, religious, intellectuals, teachers of religious education, Catholic organizations (KofC)and operating with different views on what is acceptable Catholic teaching on abortion. It is a "let's pretend" environment that calls on some to be quiet so as not to cause "divisions" - as if they did not already exist! A house divided indeed.