Part Two is an excerpt from an article by Wesley Smith that talks about the death of Terri Schiavo. Please send your comments and observations to daveandrusko@gmail.com.

I'd missed both pieces (about President Obama's supposed "33% completion" rate on his promises about abortion and a video produced by the National Journal titled "Abortion Rights Advocates Look for Dynamic Leader to Re-Energize Movement") when they came out earlier this week. But the issues are very timely.

Pro-Abortion President Barack Obama

Writing for National Journal Theresa Poulson concludes, "President Obama's reputation as an advocate for abortion rights will likely rest on health care reform, despite his progress thus far in fulfilling related campaign promises. After a closely fought debate over the overhaul bill, it appears Obama will be sent legislation containing language that would restrict insurance coverage for abortions."

Huh? No wonder he's getting only 33%. (Poulson is trying to make the case that Obama has already bent" on abortion.) If he is given the opportunity, Obama would sign off on language which does precisely the opposite and then trumpet it as a "compromise."

She does a better job outlining how Obama gutted the pro-life "Mexico City" policy, re-established funding for the dreaded United Nations Population Fund, and favored removing a longstanding ban on the use of congressionally appropriated funds to pay for abortions in the District of Columbia, a federal jurisdiction. There is a lot more she didn't discuss which Obama doubtless will promote out of conviction and to appease his pro-abortion conviction.

Poulson also produced a video for the National Journal under the title, "Where's The Palin For The Left?" The initial point made (for contrast) is that "Palin's appeal has given a boost to abortion opponents."

"On the other side" (NOW President Terry O'Neill) "is looking for someone to step up." She fumes, "We have pro-choice officials going around the country saying that abortion is somehow a bad thing." Just after Poulson points out a recent decline in support for abortion "particularly among young people," we hear O'Neill saying. "I call on our elected officials to begin saying, abortion is a good thing."

If the gap between what Poulson attributes to Obama on abortion and what he is trying to do is disconnect number one, disconnect number two is for O'Neill to demand that abortion be advertised as a "good thing" at the same time support for abortion continues to sink.

But the third and most amusing disconnect is between the representative pro-abortion young college female Poulson interviews and the "Second Wave" feminists to whom her generation cannot "relate." The college student casually observes that most of these feminists are in their sixties and seventies, and you can't miss that she is annoyed that the older pro-abortion women think her generation is less passionately committed.

Poulson tries to make the case that Obama is a backslider--not even remotely true--and O'Neill tries to resuscitate the notion that abortion is not only "good" for women (not true) but a "good thing." There is a good reason that pro-life sentiment is growing, particularly among 18-29 year olds.

They hear nonsense like this and just roll their eyes in disbelief.

Part Two