If you have been reading my blog, along with One Mom and other blogs, you will know by now that Barack Obama is very much a supporter of abortion rights. He claims he doesn’t want a woman punished by a child if they make a bad decision and become pregnant. Read about his fight against the Born Alive Infant Protection Act here. What you may not know about is his support of the Freedom of Choice Act, which was introduced in the Senate by Barbara Boxer.

You would have to be in a very isolated bubble to be unfamiliar with Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court decision that has paved the way to allowing millions of innocent babies to be murdered every year. Abortion rights activists have stood on that decision for years, hoping and praying it would never be overturned by judges who decided it wasn’t their job to legislate from the bench. Barbara Boxer’s Freedom of Choice Act would take the Roe v. Wade decision and make it an actual law, enacted by Congress and enforced by our government. Basically, it would take action to nullify any state or federal law that interferes with a woman’s access to abortion. Visit this link to see the full text of the law.

Barack Obama and other supporters of the Freedom of Choice Act say their support of the act and of abortion rights is centered on the freedom of a woman to choose if she will have a baby or not, the freedom of a woman to choose to end a pregnancy that she has decided she did not want, the freedom of choice. The fact is, that freedom to choose has resulted in the murder of millions of babies since 1973. According to my friend Wickle, over at True Believer, there have been 6,763,776 babies murdered, just since the war in Iraq began.

That freedom of choice does not seem to extend to parents of minor girls who may get pregnant. You would think that a man with two daughters would vote for a bill that would require parental notification when a minor girl is trying to get an abortion. Instead, he voted “Present”. As a parent, I can understand wanting to be notified if my daughter was seeking an abortion.  I would hope I would be involved way before the situation got that far along, but if that was where it was headed, then I believe I would have a right to know what was going on. It seems Senator Obama doesn’t share that sentiment. I am thankful I have never been faced with such a decision, concerning my daughters.  I pray to God that Barack Obama never has to face it as well.  His tone and his rhetoric may change just a bit if it comes a little closer to his home and his heart.

The proponents of abortion rights cry aloud about this freedom of choice. While I agree with personal freedom of choice and personal responsibility, this freedom has led to the killing of our future.  Who knows how many of these murdered babies would have made it to be men and women of great stature and do great things for our country and our world, simply because their mother decided the pregnancy wasn’t worth it.  Who knows what great things they would have accomplished.  Only God knows the answer.

I realize some people may not understand my concern about Barack Obama and that is okay.  You can agree or disagree, as you wish. You can talk about how great it is that a black man has risen this far and has a chance to be the first African-American President of the United States.  I don’t have a problem with that.  There is more than one African-American man who I believe would make a good President. Barack Obama is not one of those men. You can tell me about all the good he has done as a community activist and as a Senator and I will tell you this.  Any good he has done or could possibly do as our President is far outweighed by his decision to not only support abortion, but to actively work to expand abortion rights and make it more accessible to more women. Our country has been in a moral decline for a long time. With a President like Barack Obama, who wants to advance abortion rights as he does, the downward slope gets even more slippery. The path down which he would lead our country is one from which we may never recover.

When in doubt, choose life.

That’s my take!

Larry

Tags: Abortion, Barack Obama, Barbar Boxer, Born Alive Infant Protection Act, Freedom of Choice Act, Roe v. Wade, Supreme Court

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