Obama Is a Pro-Abortion Extremist

In his 2004 U.S. Senate race, Barack Hussein Obama’s website proudly proclaimed he would fight “right-wing ideologues who want to take away a woman’s right to choose.” (Barack Obama, The Audacity of Hope, Three Rivers Press, New York, NY, 2006, p. 195) He has kept this promise. Without a doubt, Obama is “the most pro-abortion member of the Senate, with his straight A+ report card from the National Abortion Rights Action League and Planned Parenthood.” (Patrick J. Buchanan, “A Catholic Case Against Barack,” Human Events, August 2008)

Now, a majority of Americans do not want all abortions outlawed. Even many of those who believe Roe v. Wade is bad law – that the issue should be decided at the state level – do not want to completely ban all abortions. Of course, others believe all abortions are wrong, citing religious beliefs or echoing the Founding Fathers in the Declaration of Independence that life is a fundamental human right.

For most Americans, though, some procedures or practices are so beyond the pale that they have no problem saying they should be banned. These include partial birth abortion, a late-term procedure “where the baby's skull is stabbed with scissors in the birth canal and the brains are sucked out.” (Ibid.) As the late Democrat Senator Patrick J. Moynihan described it, partial birth abortion "comes as close to infanticide as anything I have seen in our judiciary." (Ibid.) The vast majority of Americans believe that babies who survive an abortion procedure should be given medical care rather than be allowed to die without it.

Obama supports partial birth abortion and opposes life-saving measures for abortion survivors. He voted against a measure in the Illinois Senate in 2001 that would have treated surviving fetuses of botched abortions as human babies, saying he would have supported it if it mirrored federal law. Going back on his word, Obama led the battle in 2003 to defeat a bill that duplicated the federal “Born-Alive Infants Protection Act.” Yet, he claims that among the anchors of his faith is certainty regarding “the Golden Rule” and “the need to battle cruelty in all its forms.” (Op.cit. p. 224)

During questioning by Pastor Rick Warren at the Saddleback Church forum, Obama was flippant about the abortion issue’s fundamental question. Pastor Warren asked him, “When does life begin?” Obama joked, “You know, I think that whether you are looking at it from a theological perspective or a scientific perspective, answering that question with specificity, you know, is above my pay grade.”