Pro-life video of the day: Obama’s extreme view on late abortions
Video has surfaced of Barack Obama at a 2003 press conference, expressing his support for abortion through all nine months of pregnancy:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YEvBTwDqBY[/youtube]From The Weekly Standard:
OBAMA: “I am pro-choice.”
REPORTER: “In all situations including the late term thing?”
OBAMA: “I am pro-choice. I believe that women make responsible choices and they know better than anybody the tragedy of a difficult pregnancy and I don’t think that it’s the government’s role to meddle in that choice.”
In another interview, Obama said: “I voted no on the late-term abortion ban, not because I don’t recognize that these are painful issues but because I trust women to make these decisions.”
Interestingly, Obama’s position shifted slightly to the right during his presidential run, claiming as long as there were “strict” mental and physical health exceptions for the mother, he would support a state’s ban on late-term abortion.
And yet, it seems the official position, now that he’s in the White House, is “well known”:
When the House of Representatives voted on a late-term abortion ban for the nation’s capital this summer, White House press secretary Jay Carney dodged the issue. “Well, I haven’t spoken to the president about this particular piece of legislation,” Carney said at a White House press briefing on July 31, “but the president’s position on a woman’s reproductive freedom is well known.” Almost one-month later, the White House has not indicated whether Obama supports or opposes banning abortion when an unborn child can feel pain.
According to Dr. Martin Haskell, the man who invented the partial-birth abortion procedure, most abortions after 5 months of pregnancy are “purely elective.”
“I’ll be quite frank: most of my abortions are elective in that 20-24 week range,” he said in a 1993 interview with American Medical News. “In my particular case, probably 20% are for genetic reasons. And the other 80% are purely elective.”
It is worth noting that Obama’s support for such late-term, third trimester abortions is at odds with nearly 90% of the U.S. population. Truly an extreme view.
Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
Surely nobody is deluded enough to believe that Obama is the “true pro-life candidate” this time around… right?
The media did a great job at covering up the facts in 2008. With the tremendous rise in social media and alternative news outlets in the 4 years since, there is no hiding the facts this time around!
President Obama should just admit that the purpose of an abortion is a dead baby.
Where’s the extreme part?
Joan, if you performed a partial-birth abortion on a puppy in the process of birth, and your name was Michael Vick, you would be banned from the NFL forever and slapped in leg irons. It’s clear when it comes to dismembering human beings, as long as you aren’t the one being dismembered (and you don’t have to see it happen), you don’t seem to give a rip.
Joan,
His view is extreme in that only 10% of the U.S. public believes abortion should be legal through the 3rd trimester. The majority of the public (86%) believes it should be illegal in the 3rd trimester.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion_in_the_United_States#By_trimester_of_pregnancy
OK, joan, let me ask you this. From your point of view is there even such thing as an extreme pro-choice view?
Chris: You’re right. Joan and her ilk have already been born and are nice and safe and alive. Why should they care about anyone else, born or umborn ?
Barack Obama: The biggest scam ever pulled on the USA.
You had eight years of George W Bush and not much changed regarding abortion rights. What makes you think that a Romney administration would be any different? He was pro-choice when he was the governor of MA. What makes you think that he wouldnt’ tack back to a more moderate position once he gained power. Magical thinking much?
“Joan and her ilk have already been born and are nice and safe and alive. Why should they care about anyone else, born or umborn ?”
Actually, it’s those who are liberal and pro-choice who are the strongest advocates for the social safety net that includes assistance for those women who are pregnant and who do give birth. While you folks provide some diapers and bible tracts, I don’t see you sponsoring welfare to work job training and child care assistance programs for those women who need to work. I don’t see you paying five years of medical and food bills for poor families that get the kind of government assistance that we “baby killers” support. So care about the born and unborn – check.
Disclosure time: I was the one who liked joan’s comment. Because the only way Obama wouldn’t seem extreme on abortion to someone is if they were just as bad or worse. I do so appreciate it being admitted.
You had eight years of George W Bush and not much changed regarding abortion rights.
A closer look at Bush’s record can be found here. The full impact of his legacy is yet to be seen, as we don’t know for sure whether or not the two justices he appointed to the Supreme Court are anti-Roe.
What makes you think that a Romney administration would be any different? He was pro-choice when he was the governor of MA. What makes you think that he wouldnt’ tack back to a more moderate position once he gained power. Magical thinking much?
It’s “marginal”, not “magical”. A rational person will take his or her chances with a lousy fireman rather than leaving a first-class arsonist in charge.
CC says: Actually, it’s those who are liberal and pro-choice who are the strongest advocates for the social safety net that includes assistance for those women who are pregnant and who do give birth.
Liberals might be the strongest advocates for governmental safety nets, but every study I’ve seen on charitable giving shows that conservatives give more than liberals.
Eleanor Cooney was 17 and didn’t admit to herself that she was pregnant until she began her 4th month of pregnancy. Should all girls entering puberty be taught to keep records of when a menstrual period starts and when it ends?
It really seems like some girls and women just aren’t keeping track of things. There are woman who go all 9 months and give birth without knowing they are pregnant. A friend of mine has said, “They have to be retarded. That is absolutely stupid.”
I’ve read that occasionally a teen girl doesn’t develop a belly even when she carries for 9 months.
Have girls and women got to learn to keep precise records of their menstrual cycles?
I’m pro-life, and although I disagree 100% with the pro -choice viewpoint I can at least understand where a lot of what they say comes from. But Abortions at 24 weeks, 32 weeks…that is insanity. There is no rational argument to support it.
Truly terrifying that it is legal in the U.S. The human race’s ability to delude itself knows no bounds it seems.
I find it slightly comical that liberal pro-choicers declare themselves advocates and supporters of the poor and oppressed. All they seem to do is a lot of yapping.
It’s the churchs and conservatives that provide most support for the poor. I’ve never seen a soup kitchen at a PP or NOW office. I dont see rich , 1%, liberal Hollywood types doing much to help the poor besides attending photo ops in kitchen aprons.
Alanai: At the risk of repeating this too much, they’re just like Ebenezer Scrooge. I won’t dump in my whole pile of boilerplate on that, just this. When the gentlemen are asking him for a donation to help the poor, he takes little interest in getting personally involved. It turns out he’s a good taxpayer and prefers to let the bureaucracy handle things: “I help to support the establishments I have mentioned — they cost enough; and those who are badly off must go there.”
A rational person will take his or her chances with a lousy fireman rather than leaving a first-class arsonist in charge.
I love this. And yeah, Romney’s a crappy pro-lifer, and a bad all-around conservative. Picking Ryan made me dislike him less, but even that is a political calculation so it doesn’t win him that many points. But he at least pays lip service to politics I approve of. He is marginally interested in them, if only in a what-will-keep-me-elected-the-longest sense. Obama actively pursues politics I hate. The choice is crummy, but easy. Romney. *le sigh*
Alice, you are one intellectually sexy babe. ;-)
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OBAMA PARAPHRASED: “I am pro-abortion.”
REPORTER: “In all situations including the late term thing?”
OBAMA PARAPHRASED: “I am pro-abortion. You don’t believe women can be misled or would ever do anything wrong, do you? They know better than we whether their children deserve to live, and I don’t think that it’s the government’s role to prevent murder.”
or better said: They think that it is sometimes necessary to kill their children, and I don’t think that it’s the government’s role to prevent murder.
“but every study I’ve seen on charitable giving shows that conservatives give more than liberals.”
The studies include church tithing as charity. When the church money gets factored out, the liberal states are actually the most generous. While some of the money that goes to churches is spent on charity, much of the money goes right into the bishop’s or the minister’s pocket and their lavish lifestyle.
CC: “much of the money goes right into the bishop’s or the minister’s pocket and their lavish lifestyle.”
LMAO
Good grief. You need to get out more, CC. Of the several pastors I’ve known personally, all live in humble circumstances. If they get any breaks, it’s much-needed sabbatical time.
Meanwhile, the many volunteers in churches support their own work, mostly with their investment of time.
The idea that studies including — tithing? That’s an editorial term, CC — the idea that including donations to churches is somehow a qualifier of the study is bizarre. How about if we bracket progressive donations to freakin’ public radio? Et freakin al.
“Oh but that’s different.”
Right.
“President Obama’s Twitter account has 18.8 million followers — but more than half of them really don’t exist, according to reports.
A new Web tool has determined that 70% of Obam”a’s crowd includes “fake followers,” The New York Times reports in a story about how Twitter followers can be purchased.”
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/theoval/post/2012/08/obama-has-millions-of-fake-twitter-followers/1#.UDeS1NZlQ19
The emperor who has no clothes…of his own,…but an empty suit… has 18 million followers who don’t exist.
One more prong in the democRAT plan to get out the vote.
“Good grief. You need to get out more, CC. Of the several pastors I’ve known personally, all live in humble circumstances.”
You need to check out the digs for any Catholic bishop.
It would be an interesting execise to determine how much of the money and in kind contributions that are given to ‘churches’ are consumed by the overhead of the ‘beuracracy and compare it to the tax dolloars consumed by the beuracracy of the federal government.
I give my tithe to one(s) who watches over my soul and whenever possible I give offerings from my hand to the person who is in need.
I find that to be the most effective and efficient way to be my sisters/brothers ‘keeper’.
Unlike slick willy and his wife I don’t donate my discarded underwear to ‘United Way’ and then take the write off on my taxes.
CC: “You need to check out the digs for any Catholic bishop.”
No problem with taxes going to fund government pensions for the ruling class though, I note.
Scrooge.
:) Ehem… Alice, I’ll word it a bit differently (and with a bit more cowardice) than our good Rasqual, but: wonderful comment!
It’s pro-lifers I see volunteering to collect baby items, food donations, help UN-employed moms try to find jobs, offering to assist with child care, etc.
The pro-choicers? They spend so much time trying to convince themselves and other of the merits to abortion, its amazing they have time trying to do anything else, including a bathroom break.
If CC and Joan spent 10% of the time they spend trolling this and other pro-life blogs helping those in need, the hunger crisis just may indeed be solved!
If a fraction of the ~$350 million/year of taxpayers money that goes to the abortion mill that is PP was spent helping the poor, people everywhere would be better off, including the babies that are ruthlessly murdered.
As for rich Catholic bishops, I am not religious, so I can’t really comment. However, they can’t be more wealthy than pro-aborts Biden, Obama, most of Hollywood, that give approximately 0.1% of their total income to the needy.
How do we encourage girls and women to keep close track of their menstrual cycles?
How do we reverse the sexual revolution of the 1960’s so that sex only happens between husbands and wives? Parents will again have to protect their daughters and expect more of both their sons and their daughters. And set a good example.
How do we encourage a mother not to kill her child, whether he’s less than one month old and she ostensibly late in her cycle, or nine months old and she about to give birth? Every American citizen, including the President, will have to know that a human being gets human rights right from the start, at conception.