Heating Up

The Presidential campaign is starting to heat up with all of the new ads. The one thing that is really making angry on the Democratic site is their defense of Barack Obama's position on this bill that would have protected babies who survived an attempted abortion.

The evidence is quite clear that he is lying about his claim that he would have supported the Bill if it were the same as the Federal version, but in fact, both Bills were identical and he still opposed it.

Now, his supporters are accusing the Republicans of claiming that Obama supports the killing of babies and infanticide because that sounds ridiculous. Nobody is accusing Obama of wanting to kill babies. Instead, people are pointing out that he did support protecting them and giving them medical attention. There is a big difference between wanting to kill them and refusing to help them but they are equally disturbing.

It is sort of like the Holocaust. There was a difference between Hitler and the Nazi's who carried out the extermination of the Jewish people (and others) and those who stood by and said nothing and refused to admit that it was happening. There is one difference in this comparison though. The people who stood by and did nothing during the Holocaust were likely affraid. If they spoke out, they were likely to be killed themselves. Their sin of omission was brought on by fear.

In the case of this Bill, Obama has no excuse. I know that some peoople who read this may be outraged that I would compare the Holocaust to abortion but they are quite similar. The Jews were killed because the people were convinced that they were less than human. Hitler believed that they were harmful to the rest of the human race because they were inferior and in order for the species to survive, they had the exterminate those who would dilute the gene pool. If evolution were true, Hitler has an argument to make here and could justify his actions. He was trying to advance the species. Fortunatley, his assertion is absolutely wrong and there is more to our existance than an accidental string of fortunate events that brought about life.

Abortion uses similar assertions. The babies in the womb are not human. They are blobs of tissue and part of the mother's body, similar to an appendix. If that mass of tissue because burdensome it can be removed. We have dehumanized forming babies in the name of convenience and choice. Abortion has killed more human beings than the Holocause times 10 yet people in this country have no problem with it. Barack Obama had an opportunity to weaken the injustice of abortion by passing this Bill but opposed it because he thought it could be used to weaken women's "choice" instead. He is on tape saying that passing a law that requires another Doctor to come in and provide emergency care to a living, born alive baby creates an unnecessary burden on the mother and the Doctor who was trying to "terminate the pregnancy".

That is an outrageous claim. He said that the law already provided for the reasonable care of these babies but do you really want the Doctor who just tried to kill the "fetus" to now be the one responsible for trying to help the baby?

Barack Obama does not want to kill children, but he made it clear that he has no desire to help them. He puts the choice to kill your baby above the inherent human right to life of an individual, no matter how small or young that individual may be.

This issue alone should be enough to disqualify him from being our leader.