Editor's note. Please read Part Two as well. It contains some of Karl Rove's many insightful remarks to NRLC 2008.

It is no secret that pro-abortion Sen. Barack Obama is deft at deflecting even the most well-earned criticism. It is also hardly inside information that the major media protects him as if he were their own child.

What is less well known is that even some pro-life people are so captivated by the historic nature of his candidacy--and so taken in by his charismatic smile--that they cannot believe he can possibly be as pro-abortion as we regularly report in this space. He has the greatest advantage a candidate can enjoy. People not only give him the benefit of the doubt, they often also refuse to believe their own eyes and ears.

But he is every bit as anti-life as we've explained in exhaustive detail. If Obama's life were a book, the Foreword would be written by a descendant of Margaret Sanger, the Introduction by the President of NARAL, and the Epilogue by the executive director of Catholics for a Free Choice.

As we talked about last week, Obama took a fling on verbally repositioning himself on "late-term" abortions. When that trial balloon threatened to fly away, he reassured his pro-abortion comrades in arms that he was with them, shoulder-to-shoulder.

And Obama is. His to-ing and fro-ing were all for show. This man has never heard of an abortion he would ban and, for good measure, would allow babies who survived abortions to die abandoned and uncared for.

This was confirmed by the Baptist Press, reporting on a fundraiser held July 10 (the day after Obama was officially  endorsed by Planned Parenthood's political arm) where Obama and his former rival Sen. Hillary Clinton appeared together. In front of "Women for Obama," Obama repeated his oft-stated criticisms of pro-life Senator John McCain for wanting Roe v. Wade to be overturned and for voting for Supreme Court Justices John Roberts and Samuel Alito.

Obama said, "I stand by my votes against confirming Justices Roberts and Alito," the Baptist Press reported. "I've made it equally clear that I will never back down from making sure that women have their reproductive rights here in this country. That's what's at stake in this election," he added to a standing ovation."

Baptist Press also quoted him saying, "I was proud to get Planned Parenthood's endorsement, but I have to say that when you look who's got a 100 percent rating from Planned Parenthood, and you've got another candidate [McCain] with a zero percent rating from Planned Parenthood, then it's not really a nail-biter [in deciding whom to support]," he said to laughter."

Quite a guy.

All that and more must be kept in mind when some of your (less-informed) friends insist, "Nobody is pro-abortion, and certainly not that nice young man from Illinois."

Please read Part Two, which is a long excerpt from the remarks Karl Rove delivered at NRLC 2008. In it Mr. Rove talks at some length about the lengths to which Sen. Obama has gone--and will go in the future.

In the next issue of National Right to Life News, you will read about Obama's health care proposals that would inevitably, inexorably increase the number of abortions. If you are not receiving National Right to Life News, either call us at 202-626-8828 or go to www.nrlc.org/news/subscribe.html to learn how to subscribe and where to send your check.

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