World mag, Beckel: Born Alive is Obama’s “most difficult” abortion problem
I’d heard conservative commentator Cal Thomas had led Democrat strategist Bob Beckel to the Lord and have even observed Beckel’s commentating style become less abrasive on Fox over the past year.
In the July 26 issue of World magazine Marvin Olasky interviewed the pair, and my name came up in a discussion of Barack Obama. Read the World magazine piece in its entirety here. World has graciously enabled a link to the article for my readers. Following is the relevant excerpt:
Beckel: Let me be purely pragmatic about this: In politics the reason common ground will work is that polarization is bad politics in the voting booth and common ground is good politics…. Barack Obama took the message and it has been with him throughout the Democratic nomination. That’ll tell you something.
World: But how will he actually pursue common ground? Let’s look at one of the most difficult issues – abortion. Jill Stanek, the IL pediatric nurse, has written about appearing before Obama’s committee (when he was in the IL senate) on infant born alive legislation: After a “failed” abortion when the baby is born alive, do you try to keep him alive or do you just let him die? Stanek has commented that, despite his public demeanor, Obama was heartless and callous. How is Obama going to find common ground on abortion when he doesn’t even want to protect an infant already born alive?…
Beckel: I was pro-choice all my life until I came to faith and now I find it very difficult to reconcile that in biblical terms. I’ve had to remove myself from a number of pro-choice groups; I was on their boards. In politics you pick your fights. It is the most difficult example you put forward on Obama. I don’t know where he would come down, but my guess is you probably wouldn’t be able to find common ground with Obama on that issue.
Many people consider that the most pressing issue, and I understand that, but let’s keep in mind here that the hard pro-life faction in this country who demand no abortions, versus the hard pro-choice faction who demand abortion at any time, are about 15% on either side. So you’ve got about 70% who look for some compromise. You can say, how do you compromise life? That’s what we would say, but that’s the reality of where the American people are. Part of common ground is approaching those issues that are doable.
[Photo courtesy of World magazine]
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.
Wow!! Isn’t God good? Another miracle!
Watch out you pro-aborts, He might melt your heart
too!
I was talking with God and he told me in a vision and in my heart that abortion was ok…what should I do?
PeachPit:you weren’t listening to God. You were listening to yourself…
Peach Pit,
If you want to clear up your confusion, read Psalm 139.
13For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother’s womb.
14I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.
15My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
16Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.
“So you’ve got about 70% who look for some compromise. You can say, how do you compromise life? That’s what we would say, but that’s the reality of where the American people are. Part of common ground is approaching those issues that are doable.”
I agree. As to his question, I’d answer that ALL of life is a compromise.
I just don’t get why no one has made a serious proposal to start inducing labor or performing C sections on women who want to abort after 26 weeks. That seems like an area of compromise that only the REAL extremists on both sides would be opposed to.
“I was talking with God and he told me in a vision and in my heart that abortion was ok…what should I do?
Posted by: PeachPit at July 18, 2008 9:14 AM”
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I would be very, very afraid and get to Church immediately…because that vision came from something else other than God.
Now, the $50K question is: why would this “something-other-than-God” be in your heart?
Could it be you opened you opened yourself up to it?
“I just don’t get why no one has made a serious proposal to start inducing labor or performing C sections on women who want to abort after 26 weeks.”
OMG, how could you do that to the baby, he needs his mothers womb for his lungs and other things to develop. How cruel.
26 weeks is past the point of viability Jasper. Its better to just kill them?
“26 weeks is past the point of viability Jasper. Its better to just kill them?”
No, its better to make them carry it to term. If you can play, the baby can stay!
Amanda: 11:16: I just don’t get why no one has made a serious proposal to start inducing labor or performing C sections on women who want to abort after 26 weeks. That seems like an area of compromise that only the REAL extremists on both sides would be opposed to.
Babies are meant to be in the womb until 40 weeks; not taken as a C-section at 26 weeks or beyond. That’s not a compromise for later abortion, and not good medicine, IMHO. It is still a huge risk to the baby’s life at that point, and to the mother’s as well.
I am sure that throwing babies away as medical waste is not nearly as expensive as trying to keep a preemie alive.