One Promise I Hope He Breaks
It is the duty of every American to help and support our new president-elect. Barak Obama will have his hands full and I sincerely want him to succeed and become an excellent president.
But here is one campaign promise I hope he breaks:
“The first thing I’d do as president is sign the Freedom of Choice Act. That’s the first thing that I’d do.” — Senator Barack Obama, speaking to the Planned Parenthood Action Fund, July 17, 2007
This proposed bill will virtually cancel all federal and state limitations on abortion. The bill overturns any “statute, ordinance, regulation, administrative order, decision, policy, practice, or other action” of any federal, state, or local government or governmental official to limit or restrict access to abortions.
If you have any under-age daughters, they will be able to procur an abortion without your consent or knowledge. And the taxpayers (you) will fund it.
If you are a doctor or nurse who opposes abortion, you will no longer be allowed to invoke any kind of conscience clause. Be prepared to be required to perform aborition, even if you think them immoral.
Late term, partial birth abortions, will become legal.
Doctors will not be required to attempt to save the lives of infants born alive after botched abortions.
The president -elect says he will sign this bill into law if it reaches his desk. His past record indicates that he will truly do so. All of the pro-life advances of the past 20 years will be undone. Many more children will die.
I hope that by some miracle, the FOCA will not make it through the new congress, but I am not optimistic.
Don’t get me wrong. I believe in respecting the office of the president no matter who holds it. Barak Obama is the 44th president of the United States. He is clearly a very talented man. All of us must give him a shot. Christians must pray daily for our leaders, no matter which party holds office, that God would grant wisdom and promote justice.
I just wish America cared about the weakest, most helpless, members of society as much as it cares about high gas prices and diminishing retirement funds.
What ever happened to JFK’s “ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country”?
Amen.
The most tragic irony to all this involves the connections that can be made between slavery and abortion – those with power judge the slave then and the unborn now as less than a person with no right to life nor liberty. Murder is justified by the slave/unborn being inconvenient to the master.
I signed this petition (which looks like it has been online for a while, but with the viral nature of the internet, this election may revive it) and wrote to my congressman (Democrat, but pro-life) to ask what outlook he has on FoCA.
http://www.fightfoca.com
(living in Illinois, our underage daughters already can get an abortion without parental consent. BUT the Governor was quite proud when he signed a bill that prohibited his daughters from getting a TATTOO without his consent!)
Leistico
6 Nov 08 at 8:56 am
“It is the duty of every American to help and support our new president-elect.”
Where in the world does this silly notion come from?!? Certainly not Scripture, or the Lutheran Confessions. Maybe from the megalomaniac who seems to think there now is a government Office of the President-Elect… not to mention 57 states.
In fact we don’t have a President-elect yet, and won’t until December 15, 2008, when the electors chosen on November 4th, cast their ballots from their respective states. From the votes of the electors we will then have a President-elect who will be sworn in on January 20, 2009, as President.
In the meantime Christians can pray, “Come Lord Jesus, come!”
Carl Vehse
8 Nov 08 at 1:20 pm