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Obama’s War On Children
With the Democrats ramping up their rhetoric about the Republicans' war on women, their war on the poor, their war on people of color, and their war on seniors (promoted as their attacks on Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security), is the president waging a different war — a war on children? Why is no one yet talking in any significant way about his campaign to destroy our children — intellectually, economically, spiritually, and literally?
Don't think that this administration is antagonistic toward children? Well, consider the following actions by Obama and his administrative and legislative cohorts:
Destroying children inside and outside the womb
Whether or not you believe that life happens at conception or at some later point during pregnancy, the destruction of children due to partial-birth abortions is despicable and a literal war on children's lives. A number of times, Obama castigated the Supreme Court for its decision to uphold the 2003 Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act. At a 2008 fundraiser on the 35th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, Obama had this to say: "Last year, the Supreme Court decided by a vote of 5-4 to uphold the Federal Abortion Ban, and in doing so undermined an important principle of Roe v. Wade: that we must always protect women's health."
Michael Gerson, in an April 2, 2008 article in the Washington Post, highlighted Obama's advocacy when it came to abortion:
But Obama's record on abortion is extreme. He opposed the ban on partial-birth abortion — a practice a fellow Democrat, the late Daniel Patrick Moynihan, once called "too close to infanticide." Obama strongly criticized the Supreme Court decision upholding the partial-birth ban. In the Illinois state Senate, he opposed a bill similar to the Born-Alive Infants Protection Act, which prevents the killing of infants mistakenly left alive by abortion. And now Obama has oddly claimed that he would not want his daughters to be 'punished with a baby' because of a crisis pregnancy — hardly a welcoming attitude toward new life.
As reported by Peter Kersinow on February 12 of this year ("Clarifying Obama's Vote on Born Alive") in National Review Online, Obama even goes so far as to allow babies born after an unsuccessful abortion to die from maltreatment and neglect. As a state senator in Illinois, he fought and voted against the Illinois version of the Born Alive Infant Protection Act, which was designed to protect those children. The federal version of that law was supported by every senator in Congress, and even NARAL did not oppose it.
