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"We Don't Feel Scared Anymore. We
Feel Blessed." -- Part Two of Two
"Such complexities, however, are easily
lost in the rapid-fire, sound-bite contest that has predictably come to
consume the presidential election. We are left instead with emotionally
charged claims that mislead as much as they inform."
"From How Valid is Palin's Abortion Attack on Obama?"
by Michael Scherer which appears on Time magazine's web page.
The irony of still another story that
camouflages the truth about Obama and abortion by using language about
"emotionally charged claims that mislead as much as they inform" is not lost
on pro-lifers. While his legion of media defenders twist, turn, and truncate
in order to pretend that Obama is not an abortion extremist, we work day and
night to cut through the fog of misinformation, distortions, and lies.
As both an Illinois state Senator and a
United States senator, Obama's true North position was/is always the most
extreme abortion possible. He opposes every commonsense limitation on
abortion, and actively promotes every measure that would weave the killing
of unborn children into the wharf and woof of American culture.
Contrary to what his defenders insist, in
addition to all the usual pro-abortion legislation he voted for as a state
Senator, Obama also led the opposition to the state partial-birth abortion
ban. However, he technically did
not vote against the ban. He voted "present" which had the same effect.
Not satisfied with approving the deaths
of as many unborn babies in the womb as possible, Obama led the opposition
to (and in 2003 killed) the "Born-Alive Infants Protection Act" which would
have provided care and legal protection for babies born alive during
abortions If all that weren't
enough, he is a co-sponsor of the "Freedom of Choice Act," a piece of
pro-abortion federal legislation that is positively breathtaking in its
lethal breadth and depth. In a
word, pro-life Gov. Palin said nothing last Saturday in Johnston,
Pennsylvania, that was not 100% true about pro-abortion Sen. Obama. But
perhaps even more revealing is what her remarks said about her. (See
Part One.)
She did not pretend that she was prepared
when she learned her fifth child had been diagnosed with Down syndrome.
Overwhelmingly, most parents would have aborted. She and her husband, Todd,
prayed for strength and understanding, and chose life.
Gov. Palin talked of what she has learned
already. My favorite six lines in the speech, which I re-read a dozen times
already, are as follows: "Now
there are the world's standards of perfection and then there are God's
standards, and these are the final measure. Every child is beautiful before
God, and dear to Him for their own sake. And as for our beautiful baby boy,
for Todd and for me, he is only more precious because he is vulnerable. In
some ways, I think we stand to learn more from him than he does from us. So
when we hold Trig and care for him, we don't feel scared anymore. We feel
blessed."
She understands, of course, that these
have been ultra-turbulent weeks. And as such, "In times like these, with
wars and a financial crisis, it's easy to forget even as deep and abiding a
concern as the right to life."
We cannot allow this to happen, for
two reasons. The first reason is, as Gov. Palin put it, Obama is counting on
it. "Like so much else in his agenda, he hopes you won't notice how radical
his ideas and record are until it's too late."
The second reason is that "For a
candidate who talks so often about 'hope,' he offers no hope at all in
meeting this great challenge to the conscience of America." Indeed, to
borrow his "change" idiom, the only change Obama envisions is to topple
protective laws that enjoy wide support as part of his master plan to erect
an impenetrable fortress around the killing machines.
It's up to us to make sure the entire
American public knows the truth about Barack Obama.
Part One |
