The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; Who can know it? I, the LORD, search the heart, I test the mind, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings. - Jeremiah 17: 9&10
This is another long one. I hope you keep reading. Another important-question-at-the-end post.
The main reason I stopped blogging about politics was because it seemed in vain. I felt I wasn’t making a difference, merely repeating what everyone else was saying. But God has revealed to me it’s not in vain, if my purpose for blogging about politics edifies Christians and encourages them to adopt and maintain a consistent biblical worldview.
We all know Barack Obama supports infanticide. Nothing new here to see. But I caught him attempting to obscure the real reason he voted against a bill protecting infants born alive during failed infanticide attempts. That tends to happen when you don’t have good moral grounding and a consistent worldview, biblical or otherwise. These days, Obama tries to make it sound as if he’s always cared about these infants and opposes abortion on religious grounds.
I contend that both statements are false. Obama believes women and so-called doctors should be allowed to kill unborn babies, and that babies born alive during these attempts should be allowed to die.
Recently interviewed in Relevant magazine, whose motto is “God. Life. Progressive Culture,” Obama was asked about his stance on child killing. He wanted to clear up “rumors.”
An excerpt: (emphases added)
I have repeatedly said that I think it’s entirely appropriate for states to restrict or even prohibit late-term abortions as long as there is a strict, well-defined exception for the health of the mother. Now, I don’t think that “mental distress” qualifies as the health of the mother. I think it has to be a serious physical issue that arises in pregnancy, where there are real, significant problems to the mother carrying that child to term. Otherwise, as long as there is such a medical exception in place, I think we can prohibit late-term abortions.
The other email rumor that’s been floating around is that somehow I’m unwilling to see doctors offer life-saving care to children who were born as a result of an induced abortion. That’s just false. There was a bill that came up in Illinois that was called the “Born Alive” bill that purported to require life-saving treatment to such infants. And I did vote against that bill. The reason was that there was already a law in place in Illinois that said that you always have to supply life-saving treatment to any infant under any circumstances, and this bill actually was designed to overturn Roe v. Wade, so I didn’t think it was going to pass constitutional muster.
Most bloggers I read focused on the “mental distress” flip-flop. Apparently, Obama at one time believed “mental distress” qualified as a medical exception to a ban on infanticide. But he told Relevant he doesn’t believe in such an exception. As blogger Jennifer Rubin at the Commentary magazine blog alluded, Obama doesn’t seem to know the law he supposedly taught at the University of Chicago law school.
But people failed to notice what I consider the more important flip-flop or more precisely, obfuscation, found in the second paragraph cited. Obama said he voted against the Born Alive Infant Protection Act as a senator in Illinois because of the constitutionality issue and some other law in place protecting babies born alive. That makes for a pithy sound bite, but Obama the “Christian” glossed over the real reason for his opposition, a reason that should stop any genuine Christian from voting for him.
(See Obama Blocked Born Alive Infant Protection Act and Catholics Citizens article)
Obama opposed the bill protecting infants because of a so-called burden it would impose on women and doctors. Jill Stanek, a former labor and delivery nurse who testified before the Illinois Senate Judiciary Committee, wrote that Obama voted against the bill when it was in committee in March of 2001. In the full Senate, he was the only one who spoke against it, again referring to the burden it would place on women and doctors.
Obama voted against the bill, according to his spokesman, because he believed it would take away doctors’ “professional judgment when a fetus is viable.” But the Born Alive Infant Protection Act defines “born alive” as “the complete expulsion or extraction from his or her mother of that member, at any stage of development, who after such expulsion or extraction breathes or has a beating heart, pulsation of the umbilical cord, or definite movement of voluntary muscles, regardless of whether the umbilical cord has been cut, and regardless of whether the expulsion or extraction occurs as a result of natural or induced labor, cesarean section, or induced abortion.”
That definition makes it very plain what born alive means, and a doctor’s professional judgment would not be compromised in any way if he/she were to commence life-saving measures on an infant born during a failed infanticide attempt. Did Obama read the definition before he voted against the bill? Whether he had in fact read it or not, he voted against the bill all the same. His opposition didn’t turn on definitions or burdens, in my opinion. He clearly believes a woman’s desire trumps a baby’s right to live.
I could go on, but here’s the important point: politicians will revise history and compromise on just about anything to win over the media and win elections. Obama is a liberal who supports child murder. Plain and simple. It’s on record. Anything he says to the contrary now can be contradicted by that record. Obama tried to soft-pedal his position on infanticide before a “Christian” audience, and only his fellow Christians-in-name-only would fall for it.
My view on abortion is very clear and consistent. I believe life begins at conception. Consequently, deliberately extinguishing that life is murder, whether the fetus is a “clump of cells” or close-to-term. I’m rigid that way.
Politicians can craft all the “right to privacy” laws they want. Murder called by any other name is still repugnant in the eyes of God. Even some who call themselves pro-life just can’t seem to hold their position when it comes to rape and incest. It’s OK to murder the baby if he was conceived during these acts. That’s what George Bush believes. For me, there is no exception, and I will maintain that position for the rest of my life.
When God asks you on Judgment Day what you believed during your lifetime about abortion, what will you tell him?
