Pro-Abortion Wish-List
Pro-abortion advocacy groups have big plans for the Obama Administration.
In November, more than 60 organizations submitted a 55-page memorandum to the Obama transition team, explaining in detail the policy changes that the signatory groups are recommending. The signing organizations include NARAL, Planned Parenthood, Guttmacher Institute, National Abortion Federation, American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, and the Sierra Club.
The Obama transition office posted the memo on its website–a manifestation of what the transition calls its “transparency” policy. (Click here to download the document.)
The memo, titled “Advancing Reproductive Rights and Health in a New Administration,” contains a lengthy section detailing policies that the alliance says should be undertaken within the first 100 days of the new Administration (which begins with Obama’s inauguration on January 20, 2009). Some of these, such as a restoration of federal funding to organizations that promote abortion overseas, can be accomplished by presidential order–and for these, an appendix to the memo provides specific language that the groups suggest Obama adopt in his orders.
In other cases, the signing groups urge the Obama Administration to propose changes to Congress–for example, the elimination of the Hyde Amendment, which prohibits federal funding of most abortions, and greatly increased funding for “family planning” programs that direct many funds to Planned Parenthood affiliates.
Also within the first 100 days, the memo urges the Administration to reverse recent steps taken by the Bush Administration to protect the conscience rights of health care providers who do not wish to facilitate abortions, and to propose a health-care reform bill that will guarantee “access to the full range of reproductive health services, including . . . abortion care.”
The memo details other policy goals that the alliance wants to see realized “over the next four years,” including enactment of the “Freedom of Choice Act” (FOCA). The memo suggests that the bill is needed in part to counter the April 18, 2007, Supreme Court ruling in Gonzales v. Carhart, which upheld the ban on partial-birth abortion–a ruling that the memo says “declares open season on rights that women have relied on since Roe v. Wade.”
One section of the memo urges that the new President nominate to federal courts only men and women who are pre-committed to support abortion. The memo says that it is “critical” that all judicial nominees have “a demonstrated commitment to fundamental legal rights . . . including the right to have an abortion.”
“Pro-abortion advocacy groups have provided the Obama Administration with a detailed road map for delivery of an extreme pro-abortion agenda–and regrettably, the new President will be all too willing to follow this map,” commented NRLC Legislative Director Douglas Johnson. “It is up to the pro-life movement to alert mainstream America to this emerging threat, because most elements of this agenda cannot be implemented without agreement from the Congress.”
Hello folks.
Firstly, let me offer my respects and humble obeisances to Lord Jesus Christ and all of you guys. You’re doing wonderful work, and I think the fat cats in Washington are being served notice: God-loving, decent people simply will not tolerate this forced pro-choice business on hospitals, Catholic or otherwise.
You’ll gather I’m sure from my name that I’m of a different tradition (vaishnava/Bhakti Yoga–or loving devotion to God). Why am I telling you all of this?
Well, I’m doing that not to differentiate myself with a pompous ego-driven show of individuality. The underlying point is that we (students of Bhakti Yoga)are with you 100% of the way. Those who perform abortions for monetary gain have no idea of the punishment they’re bringing upon their heads, and our scriptures (The Vedas)as well as my Spiritual Master have confirmed this. It’s one of the tenets of our spiritual path, or religion if you like that we must, in every and all circumstances, practice compassion. That isn’t a suggestion, it’s a commandment–and it comes directly from God. I can also tell you that I have Muslim friends, Buddhist friends, etc. who are equally appalled by what this man (and his evil, hidden confederates)are proposing. Too, many of my black friends are in opposition to this proposal. And on and on the list goes of those opposed to abortion and who are rising up and demonstrating against it.
So please my dear brothers and sisters–do not be discouraged. Watch some of the news on television which I imagine takes a certain amount of courage on the behalf of the reporting community to even broadcast (lest their careers become under threat). God is only asking us to rise up and fight for what is right and not simply stand by and play the “ain’t it awful!” card, and I’m sure He will aid and support us in ways we may not be aware of! Keep the faith; God bless!
yerfren, ‘Raj’
The stakes are enormously, unmeasurably high in exposing to the American People the murderous legislative agenda of the abortion/euthanasia and eugenics organizations which have amassed there resources in an all out push to enshrine for good the pro-death culture which they worship. These often pathetic and weak willed persons are fundamentally misguided. The proof is in the very arguments that have been offered as justicication for killing the onncocent. BUT, critically, while the Forces of Life and Light can articulate countless, substantive arguments arising out of the very evil they fight, (e.g., “abortion per se is intrinsically evil for the following reasons…”) the abortionists and exterminators cannot offer, or at least have never presented an affirmative justication for abortion. By this I mean there is no philosophical or scientific argument which demonstrates that abortion, in and of itself, is morally licit. Instead, the arguments of the pro-death minions is ALWAYS grounded in the rights of women who, to paraphrase Emund Burke, “who just happen to be up walking around.”
But this is no moral justiciation for abortion, euthanasia, or any other pro-death demand. In the end all such arguments rest on the long rejected concept that if a person has complete power over another she–or he–may kill that person. The moral justification is an ancient one, grounded in pagan concepts, superstitution, and man’s endless will to power. The power to kil an innocent human being, though perverse beyond measure, is an unfettered and self destructive position as it will eventually engulf and deaden all distinctions between good and evil. The resulting void will be filled because just as nature abhors a vacuum, so too does human belief. The void, should the pro-death dark riders succeed will be filled with the absolute darkness of nothingness, nihilism, the true definition of evil which is the absolute and radical absence of the good which ust be present and must govern human conduct or evil will prevail.
This is a spiritual battle, an ancient battle forever renewed in this broken world. But evil is “No-Thing” and hence is powerless against reality, i.e., truth. We who work, pray, hope for conversion must perservere. We must also pray with a prfound fervor for those who actively involved in the promotion of the Cult of Death, and for those who remain lukewarm on matters that cause all other concerns to pale in comparison.
Each human person is a world, a singular, total unity and integration of body and soul, time and eternity, and hence is beyond the very category of “value.” We must fight–for Truth demands it as does each person’s individual conscious. And all the while we must live in joyful, prayerful hope, that this withering culture receives new life by rejected genocide in all its forms and in building a Culture in which all persons are loved, respected, protected and with each addition to the family of man we see only JOY.
May God Bless us and His opponents. And to finish with the final prayer of the Bible, the glad tidings of St. John: “Come, Lord Jesus.”
Mike