Behavior, Not Tone or Word
Choice,
Explains Growing Resistance to Obama's Abortion
Agenda
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"Chinese Bias for Baby Boys
Creates a Gap of 32 Million."
Headline from Saturday New York Times story
"They fully expected that he
would overturn the so-called Mexico City policy
restricting family-planning funding overseas,
reverse George W. Bush's ban on federal funding
for embryonic-stem-cell research and move to
rescind a last-minute Bush Administration
'conscience clause' rule for medical providers,
the latter of which he will probably do as early
as next week. But they also presumed Obama would
handle and communicate these weighty decisions
with a delicate touch, and in that respect, the
President has disappointed the crucial voting
bloc."
From "Catholic Democrats: Is Their Support for Obama
Fraying?" Written by Amy Sullivan, the analysis
appeared online Friday at Time.com.
If you're trying to square the
circle--or, in this case, minimize/ignore where
pro-abortion President Barack Obama is taking
us--logic and full disclosure are to be avoided
at all costs. Let's take the stories from which
two quotes cited above appear as examples.
The Times bases its story on a
paper published online by the British Medical
Journal. In a nutshell the gender balance is so
skewed in China –in 2005, for example, there
were 120 boys born for every 100 girls--that
"For the next 20 years, China will have
increasingly more men than women of reproductive
age" with all the potential ramifications that
entails.
How'd it happen? "The
imbalance is attributed almost entirely to
couples' decisions to abort female fetuses."
According to the British
Medical Journal paper," Sex-selective abortion
accounts for almost all the excess males," which
has grown in number steadily since 1986 "as
ultrasound tests and abortion became more
available."
Notice what isn't mentioned?
China's hideous program of forced abortions,
part and parcel of the government's one-child
policy which essentially declared open season on
unborn females. Oh, and the other item that is
conveniently ignored, is the dastardly action
taken by Congress and signed into law by Obama
on March 11.
Over vigorous NRLC objections,
the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) will
receive U.S. funds regardless of whether that
agency continues to participate in China's
population-control program, which relies heavily
on coerced abortion. Indeed on March 24 the
State Department announced that it would release
$50 million to the UNFPA. You learn as
much from what the New York Times omitted as
what it included.
Ditto for the TIME magazine
piece, written by Amy Sullivan. Sullivan has
made a career out of making it safe for
pro-abortion Democrats, most often Catholics, by
pretending to be "pro-life."
Sullivan gives her readers a
partial list of Obama's pro-abortion actions
since taking up residence in the White House.
Her argument essentially appears to be as
follows.
Even though Obama won with a
majority of Catholic voters last fall, "it
didn't mean that Catholics, who in recent years
had mostly sided with the GOP because of social
issues, had any illusions about Obama's stance
on such sensitive matters," Sullivan writes.
Well, if that's true, why is he at risk of "alienat[ing]
those liberal and moderate Catholics who could
defend him when times get tough"?
The answer appears to be
because (1) Obama lacked a sufficiently
"delicate touch" when handling and communicating
'these weighty decisions"; and (2) because of "a
sustained assault by a loose coalition of
Catholic organizations and leaders who are
committed to convincing their fellow church
members that Obama doesn't share their values."
In other words, had Obama
displayed his reputed rhetorical skills, this
"loose coalition" would have had limited impact.
The implication is that the coalition pretty
much manufactured reasons to oppose Obama.
But without rehearsing the
entire list of actions , what couldn't be
clearer is that Obama DOESN'T share their
values.
It's not tone or lack of
diplomacy that explains why Obama is alienating
many of those who were willing when they went to
the ballot box to give him the benefit of the
doubt on abortion and abortion-related issues.
It is his behavior.
He is a hard-core
pro-abortionist who appoints militant
pro-abortionists to sensitive positions.
There is not a single pro-life
policy or principle that is not in Obama's
cross-hairs.
That is why resistance is
building to the policies of the most
pro-abortion President in our history. Become a
part of it today by going to
www.stoptheabortionagenda.com
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