Catching Up With the Pro-Abortionists -- Part One of Three

Editor's note. Please take a look at Part Two, which talks about very encouraging results among Evangelicals. Part Three gives you one last chance to order copies of the October issue of National Right to Life News.

Depending on the audience, pro-abortionists and their minions in the "mainstream media" are running a two-front campaign to simultaneously obscure and make the best of Sen. Barack Obama's hardy embrace of abortion, and beyond. On the theory that forewarned is forearmed, let's take a quick look at the strategy.

On the one hand you have lots of organizations masquerading as pro-life and/or Catholic assuring people who are pro-life and/or Catholic that it's perfectly okay to vote for the most rabid pro-abortionist ever to secure the nomination of a major political party. They do this by either airbrushing out Obama's relentlessly anti-life record or by telling their audiences that Obama is a Big Picture "pro-lifer."

By the latter I mean that they trot out that most threadworn of pro-abortion tactics: making abortion merely one of many "pro-life issues." By the former, I mean that they simply lie.

On the other hand, a number of newspapers are honing in on the impact of the election on the future composition of the Supreme Court. On the hysteria meter, for the most part they run from the mildly deranged to the apocalyptic. Somehow we are to believe that it makes no real difference if pro-abortion Barack Obama wins but the world as we know it will come to an end if pro-life Sen. John McCain carries the day.

However, I think the following, from today's New York Times, is actually right on.

"At a time when job losses, home foreclosures and the war in Iraq are paramount in voters' minds, the politics of the Supreme Court seem, at first blush, abstract and unlikely to emerge as a concern before the election. Yet both presidential campaigns are gearing up for the possibility that court-related issues will become an X factor in some swing states, in what political analysts see as intensifying unpredictability."

At the top of the list of "the politics of the Supreme Court" is whom each candidate would likely appoint to the Court and the abortion issue.

What conclusions might you draw? No matter how much you hear over the next few weeks telling you that the election is decided or that the impact of abortion is muted this time around, don't believe it for a nanosecond. This election will be decided the last week and the impact of people who base their vote on where a candidate comes down on abortion could easily be decisive.

Sen. McCain has a solid 25-year pro-life voting record on abortion and has forthrightly talked about the kind of justices he would nominate. Chief Justice John Roberts and Associate Justice Samuel Alito are the names he most often cites.

Sen. Obama has a down-the-line pro-abortion voting record and voted against the confirmations of both Roberts and Souter. He has praised three relentlessly pro-Roe justices as "sensible": Stephen Breyer, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and David Souter.

Keep coming here for further updates. And please forward them along to pro-life family, friends, and colleagues.

Part Two -- Evangelicals Staunchly Pro-Life, Solidly Behind McCain
Part Three -- Call Today to Order Copies of October NRL News