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A Catholic Case Against Barack by Patrick J. Buchanan
Posted 08/12/2008 ET

In the Pennsylvania primary, Barack Obama rolled up more than 90 percent of the African-American vote. Among Catholics, he lost by 40 points. The cool liberal Harvard Law grad was not a good fit for the socially conservative ethnics of Altoona, Aliquippa and Johnstown. But if Barack had a problem with Catholics then, he has a far higher hurdle to surmount in the fall, with those millions of Catholics who still take their faith and moral code seriously.

For not only is Barack the most pro-abortion member of the Senate,with his straight A+ report card from the National Abortion Rights Action League and Planned Parenthood. He supports the late-term procedure known as partial-birth abortion where the baby's skull is stabbed with scissors in the birth canal and the brains are sucked out to end its life swiftly and ease passage of the corpse into the pan. Partial-birth abortion, said the late Sen. Pat Moynihan, "comes as close to infanticide as anything I have seen in our judiciary."

Yet, when Congress was voting to ban this terrible form of death for a mature fetus, Michelle Obama was signing fundraising letters pledging that, if elected, Barack would be "tireless" in keeping legal this "legitimate medical procedure."

And Barack did not let the militants down. When the Supreme Court upheld the congressional ban on this barbaric procedure, Barack denounced the court for denying "equal rights for women."

As David Freddoso reports in his new best-seller, "The Case Against Barack Obama," the Illinois senator goes further than any U.S. senator has dared go in defending what John Paul II called the "culture of death." Thrice in the Illinois legislature, Obama helped block a bill that was designed solely to protect the life of infants already born, and outside the womb, who had miraculously survived the attempt to kill them during an abortion. Thrice, Obama voted to let doctors and nurses allow these tiny human beings die of neglect and be tossed out with the medical waste.

How can a man who purports to be a Christian justify this?

If, as its advocates contend, abortion has to remain legal to protect the life and health, mental and physical, of the mother, how is amother's life or health in the least threatened by a baby no longer inside her -- but lying on a table or in a pan fighting for life and breath?

How is it essential for the life or health of a woman that her baby, who somehow survived the horrible ordeal of abortion, be left to die or put to death? Yet, that is what Obama voted for, thrice, in the Illinois Senate.

When a bill almost identical to the one Barack fought in Illinois, the Born Alive Infants Protection Act, came to the floor of the U.S. Senate in 2001, the vote was 98 to 0 in favor. Barbara Boxer, the most pro-abortion member of the Senate before Barack came, spoke out on its behalf: "Of course, we believe everyone should deserve the protection of this bill. ... Who could be more vulnerable than a newborn baby? So, of course, we agree with that. ... We join with an 'aye' vote on this. I hope it will, in fact, be unanimous."

Obama says he opposed the Born Alive Infants Protection Act because he feared it might imperil Roe v. Wade. But if Roe v. Wade did allow infanticide or murder, which is what letting a tiny baby die of neglect or killing it outright amounts to, why would he not want that court decision reviewed and amended to outlaw infanticide?

Is the right to an abortion so sacrosanct to Obama that killing by neglect or snuffing out of the life of tiny babies outside the womb must be protected if necessary to preserve that right?Obama is an abortion absolutist. "I could find no instance in his entire career," writes Freddoso, "in which he voted for any regulation or restriction on the practice of abortion."

In 2007, Barack pledged that, in his first act as president, he will sign the Freedom of Choice Act, which would cancel every federal, state or local regulation or restriction on abortion. The National Organization for Women says it would abolish all restrictions on government funding of abortion.

What we once called God's Country would become the nation on earth most zealously committed to an unrestricted right of abortion from conception to birth.

Before any devout Catholic, Evangelical Christian or Orthodox Jew votes for Obama, he or she might spend 15 minutes in Chapter 10 of Freddoso's "Case Against Barack." For if, as Catholics believe, abortion is the killing of an unborn child, and participation in an abortion entails automatic excommunication, how can a good Catholic support a candidate who will appoint justices to make Roe v. Wade eternal and eliminate all restrictions on a practice Catholics legislators have fought for three decades to curtail?

And which Catholic priests and prelates will it be who give invocations at Obama rallies, even as Mother Church fights to save the lives of unborn children whom Obama believes have no right to life and no rights at all?

Source: http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?print=yes&id=27992

28 years ago i faced what was the biggest dilemma of my life at that time. i was pregnant and unmarried. i had good friends who advised me to have an abortion. their reasons seemed fine on the surface, especially their argument that after the abortion, i could go on with my life and not be saddled with a child which might further hamper my attempts to find a man who would want to marry me AND my child. one phone call, in particular, was especially hurtful. it was from the baby's father's on again-off again girlfriend at the time who called me from the philippines to tell me that i would be jeopardizing the father's future (and maybe hers?) if i decided to go on with the pregnancy. little did she know that that phone call would be the impetus for me to WANT to keep the baby...!

i had other friends who told me to go on with the pregnancy and keep the baby or put the baby up for adoption. because i was not sure what road to take, i decided to read up on everything regarding abortion. i remember bringing home piles of books from BIOLA's library (i was working at BIOLA's Dean of Student Services Office at the time) in order to educate myself. what i read convinced me that abortion was NOT for me and reinforced my belief that each life is a PRECIOUS gift from God. many years later, i remain convinced of this and even more so, as i believe that God gives life and only God can take it away. taking someone else's life, especially that of an innocent unborn child, is not our right!!

so, when i read something like pat buchanan's piece above, i am angered that people like obama still believe that they have the right to take someone else's life away. and to think that he will do that when he's president... i shudder at the thought that someone who brags about being a "Christian" can have that mindset and brag that he will push through his "agenda of death" when he's president...

of course, i believe that if God wants to, he can put HIS choice in the presidency. but, God also allows us free will and if the people of the united states are stubborn enough to insist on electing someone who believes in death to innocent individuals, God can also allow that. but, if that happens, i feel that that is the beginning of the end for America. every nation that has allowed and tolerated death to the innocent has disappeared from this earth. look at what happened to the Roman Empire with their sadistic delight at watching Christians fight against hungry lions in the Coliseum. look at the once-mighty German nation that slaughtered millions of innocent Jews during the Holocaust.

it is my prayer that all Christians in the US really think and pray about who to vote for in november. as for me, i am taking my stand and declaring that, as a Christian, i cannot in good conscience vote for obama.

May God's will be done in the upcoming elections.