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Could a Catholic in good conscience vote for a candidate who has supported infanticide?

February 26th, 2010 15 comments

Barack Obama is the only US senator on record for voting for infanticide. As an Illinois state senator, he led the opposition to the Born-Alive Infant Protection Act (BAIPA), which says, "A live child born as a result of an abortion shall be fully recognized as a human person and accorded immediate protection under the law."

Why was such a law needed? Late-term abortions often use prostaglandin to induce contractions, forcing a premature birth. The labor contractions usually kill the baby, but not always. Sometimes preemies survive the procedure, fighting for air, nourishment, and a human touch. Standard practice has been to abandon the baby to die, lying in a pool of afterbirth and medical waste.

When BAIPA came before the Illinois Senate in 2001, Obama said it would establish that babies surviving abortion "are entitled to the kinds of protections that would be provided to a child, a nine-month old child that was delivered to term." Apparently, Obama thinks you have to be nine months old to be protected from abuse and neglect.

Three months later, the U.S. Senate passed the Born-Alive Infant Protection Act by a vote of 98-0. At the federal level, the bill included an explicit disclaimer about babies still in utero. Later, Obama claimed he would have supported the federal version.

That was a lie. When the federal language was included in an Illinois version in 2003, Chairman Obama bottled it up in the Health Committee, killing the bill.

Barack Obama is not just for abortion. Obama demands that every abortion result in a dead baby. My question is, can a Catholic in good conscience vote for a candidate who is not just pro-choice, but pro-death?

Oh, most definitely not. Our Bishop just sent out a letter to the entire diocese last week reminding is that not only must we vote our conscience, but we must remember that our foremost duty as Catholics is to protect life, from conception to natural death, and it would therefore be an unconscionable decision and a form of self excommunication to vote for a candidate that openly supports abortion, especially when there is an opposing candidate that will work to protect life.

Does Barack Obama support infanticide?

February 19th, 2010 12 comments

As an Illinois state senator, Barack Obama twice opposed legislation to define as "persons" babies who survive late-term abortions.

He supports killing babies who survive late-term abortions? Isn’t this infanticide?

This article at the Wall Street Journal has the story of Gianna Jessen, a woman who survived late-term abortion. Gianna’s medical records state that she was "born during saline abortion."

The Audacity of Death
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121261107480446197.html

Do you view this as infanticide?
As an Illinois state senator, Barack Obama twice opposed legislation to define as "persons" babies who survive late-term abortions. Babies like Gianna. Mr. Obama said in a speech on the Illinois Senate floor that he could not accept that babies wholly emerged from their mother’s wombs are "persons," and thus deserving of equal protection under the Constitution’s 14th Amendment.

A federal version on the same legislation passed the Senate unanimously and with the support of all but 15 members of the House. Gianna was present when President Bush signed the Born Alive Infants Protection Act in 2002.

When I asked Gianna to reflect on Mr. Obama’s candidacy, she paused, then said, "I really hope the American people will have their eyes wide open and choose to be discerning. . . . He is extreme, extreme, extreme."

Yes, I view it as infanticide. But then, I also view late-term abortions as murder and partial-birth abortion as heinous.
Barack Obama’s record shows he supports late-term abortion and opposed the surviving baby legislation, so it does appear he supports infanticide to a degree and that is unacceptable.

Is Obama soft on crime?

January 20th, 2010 11 comments

While serving as an Illinois State Senator (the only real record Obama has), he continuously voted against strengthening laws against crime – especially gang crime (can’t imagine why?), or he simply voted "present", a trend that continues to this day. There are over 15,000 murders a year in the USA. That is roughly 15 times the death toll in Iraq – 15 TIMES! We need to start talking about this!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpUg4rcjQyM

Yah, and its also interesting that the gangs in South side of Chicago are so bad and out of control its at the point were Police are requesting Military weapons to fight them. The preachers like Wright, Pfleger and Farrakhan are teaching the black communities to Think whites owe them and telling them White people are the devil= at least Farrakhan says whites are the devil! So they are learning to HATE WHITES MORE! So that makes them feel like they are owed and its their DUTY to take from the whites and kill them!

Obama voted AGAINST capital punishment for Gang Members!
Gee wonder why Wrights CHurch Gave FARRAKHAN a lifetime achievment award, when they are not even supposable the SAME religion!
Wonder why a Catholic Father Pfleger is Preaching at Obamas X=Church of Christ ? Weird!
My link attached will tell you what went on at the MILLION MAN MARCH Obama and Wright and Farrakhan ALL ATTENDED!