Plotting Its Course to the Next Anti-Life Objective

Plotting Its Course to the Next Anti-Life Objective
Part Two of Two

There are a half-dozen words and phrases that are common parlance in the pro-abortion-to-the-hilt Obama Administration that must instantly raise our antennae. Even more than when we listen to blather about "common ground" and "transformative," when pro-lifers are assured something is a "compromise," we know we must go to red-alert.

"Compromise," in the gauzy lexicon of Obama and his admirers in the media, is, at best, a temporary way station or a momentary lull. Truth be told, whatever a particular decision happens to be, its reach is much more extensive than a surface reading would suggest. And wherever and whenever the Obama pro-abortion express may have stopped for the day, it is only to plot the course to its next anti-life objective.

Nowhere is that better illustrated than how the Obama Administration is torching the policy enacted by pro-life President George W. Bush on stem cells. For instance, if you read today's New York Times' editorial on the subject, Obama and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have produced a "compromise" on stem cell research.

In fact, Obama has already taken us several steps down the slippery slope and shows no sign that he would ever put on the brakes. Looked at more objectively, Obama's directives are essentially open-ended. They employ a tactical implemental process to reach his intended goals, such as federal support for human cloning, etc. Put another way, his plan is to incrementally achieve everything one step at a time.

For instance, last month in gutting President Bush's policy, Obama talked about the end to "politics," reverence for "science," promised safeguards and "strict guidelines" to govern embryonic stem cell research, etc., etc. In fact, all of this was mere smokescreen.

For example, contrary to the impression he left, nothing in what Obama initially said limited NIH to the use of stem cells scavenged from so-called "spare embryos" created in IVF clinics. Then, last Friday, when the NIH issued guidelines on embryonic stem cell research, it said it will not initially fund research involving human embryos who were created specifically to be used in research (as opposed scavenging human embryos "left over" at fertility clinics). Isn't that a genuine "compromise"?

Nope. The guidelines are a softening-up exercise. Far from a compromise, they represented a "further slide down the slippery slope of exploiting non-consenting members of the human species -- human embryos," as NRLC pointed out in its reaction. This serves the anti-life cause in two ways.

First, it desensitizes the public to the concept of killing human embryos for research purposes. Second, the NIH guidelines will be trotted out when Democratic leaders in Congress suddenly bring up new legislation that they will claim codifies NIH's action. (Come to think of it, "codify" is another one of those pro-abortion buzzwords.)

In fact, in a classic bait-and-switch, the proposed law will authorize further expansions involving the deliberate creation of human embryos for use in research, by human cloning and other methods. (See http://www.nrlc.org/Killing_Embryos/NRLCHousecloningwarning.pdf)

My point is a simple one. Pro-abortionists command the White House and control of both Houses of Congress. Yet their agenda on our issues goes miles beyond what the American people would tolerate.

Thus, camouflage is necessary, from beginning to end. Our job is to make clear what Obama and his friends are trying to do.

If you are interesting in helping us fight the Obama Abortion Agenda, please go to http://stoptheabortionagenda.com.

Please send comments on any or all parts to daveandrusko@gmail.com.

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