In the spirit of "bringing us together," President Barack Obama reportedly will soon unveil one pro-abortion initiative, according to published reports, with the timing of two others still unclear.

There appears to be little doubt Obama will soon eliminate the Mexico City Policy by executive order. This would mean money would be funneled into the eager hands of groups such as International Planned Parenthood who perform abortions and/or agitate to undermine the protective abortion laws of foreign nations.

Also under active consideration is the elimination of Health and Human Services' recently enacted conscience clause and the lifting of President Bush's ban on federal funding of the kind of stem cell research that requires the killing of human embryos.

The ink is barely dry on HHS's rule which offers protection to health workers who refuse to perform abortion-related services. And even though there is a plethora of ethically acceptable (and far more promising) alternatives to harvesting stem cells from human embryos, Obama is contemplating action that would shovel your tax dollars into the ultra-controversial embryonic stem cell research, according to the Los Angeles Times. He could do so by executive order, or (as Obama has told CNN he might) wait for Congress to send him legislation to accomplish the same goal.

In Part One, I talked about the irony of President Obama's full-throated support for the abortion agenda of PPFA and NARAL in light of his own early history. If you removed his name, PPFA could use the particulars of his situation as a poster child for the kind of child who would have been "better off" aborted.

A number of people responded to yesterday's edition, including self-identified African-Americans. A couple pointed to the frightening number of abortions obtained by black women.

How prevalent? Using 2004 data, there were 10.5 abortions per 1,000 white women ages 15 to 44, compared with 28 per 1,000 Hispanic women of that age and 50 per 1,000 black women. As the Washington Post phrased it," That translates into approximately 1 percent of white women having an abortion in 2004, compared with 3 percent of Hispanic women and 5 percent of black women."

Another African-American respondent pointed to the association between obtaining an induced abortion and a 30% increased risk of breast cancer. This greater risk translates into not only more breast cancer, but deadlier.

This same writer quoted from a 2006 New York Times article, which read, "Among pre-menopausal black women with breast cancer, 39 percent had the more dangerous kind, called a 'basal like' subtype, compared with only 14 percent of older black women and 16 percent of non-black women of any age."

One other point: Speaking on another topic Tuesday, Obama spoke of rejecting "false" choices and of how the "ideals" of the Founding Father's "charter" [the Constitution] "still light the world."

Pro-lifers agree. We categorically reject the false choice between looking out for the mother and protecting her child. We don't choose up sides between mother and child. We say, as we always have, love them both.

Obama is also correct that those ideals do still light the world. And what ideal is more central to our national understanding than that everyone--not just the planned, the perfect, and the post-natal--deserves to be shielded from injustice and discrimination?

In his conclusion, Obama spoke of "storms" that "may come." While he was obviously not speaking about our great Movement, I think the sentiments apply perfectly:

"Let it be said by our children's children that when we were tested we refused to let this journey end, that we did not turn back nor did we falter; and with eyes fixed on the horizon and God's grace upon us, we carried forth that great gift of freedom and delivered it safely to future generations."

Part One