New Stanek WND column, “Pro-life Obamanation?”
The terms “pro-life” and “Obamanation” would seem incompatible.
But there may be an emerging phenomenon. While President Obama continues to enjoy popular support, his anti-life agenda is enjoying less popularity the more he tries to advance it.
The first sign was public reaction to Obama’s overturning of the Mexico City policy, which reinstated taxpayer funding to international abortion groups. This garnered Obama a 65% disapproval rating, according to Gallup, making it the least popular of his first 7 decisions as president.
Then in late February, Obama….
Obama pressed on with his anti-life agenda, signing an executive order in March authorizing taxpayer funding of human embryo experimentation…. A March Pew poll showed support had “fallen below the 50% level for the first time since 2004 and constituted a slight decline in support since 2007,” wrote the New York Times.
In April Politico.com reported a surge in pro-life activism….
Then an April 30 Pew poll showed the biggest drop in abortion support in 15 years…. This was consistent with a CNN poll conducted April 23-26….
Obama may be winning abortion battles, but a casualty is loss of public support in the abortion war.
Translation: Obama is making abortion unpopular.
If this keeps up, an interesting oxymoron may be….
Read my complete column today, “Pro-life Obamanation?” at WorldNetDaily.com.
Also read LEARN leader Rev. Clenard Childress’s similar view, “Barack Obama – The best thing to happen to end black genocide.” [HT: Leslie Hanks]
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.
This was a very refreshing and uplifting article to read, Jill!
Since Obama was elected I have been disheartened, to say the least. Thank you, Jill for always telling it like it is and for showing us the positive side! In spite of everything this administration has done to promote abortion worldwide we will keep fighting the good fight!
It’s unbelievable how obtuse anti-choicers are about Obama’s abortion and family planning policies. They aren’t anti-life at all !
In fact, they could save the lives of many desperately poor women, prevent many unwanted pregnancies, and provide desperately needed help to the poorest and most unfortunate. Obama is much more pro-life than anti-choicers, who are the REAL culture of death. How deliciously ironic !
Thanks for the great article. Your analysis has made me think OBAMA will delay signing the FOCA Act for awhile. Surely his intelligence folks realize the pro-life movement will get stronger when American bishops start suggesting more civil disobedience.
Golly, OK…I mean… Robert, how are you hoping people will respond to your post? I just… I don’t know how to convey the way your post makes me feel… Let’s put it this way- you make my noetic structure incoherent. You’ve been posting on Jill’s site for so long and every experience of mine tells me that people who know about the abortion issue have at least some sembalnce of what the debate is about. But I see none of that with you. I just can not fathom how you can’t even begin to address the abortion issue from any sort of framework that would remotley begin to get pro-lifers thinking. I don’t mean to be mean, but I can not make heads or tails of what goes on in your mind.
Bobby, I think you articulated that so well!
So…wait…people had to be reminded that abortion exists and what it does before they can be bothered to fight it? If people knew abortion was bad, but voted for a guy who is one of THE MOST “pro-choice” presidents in history, why are they even bothering to cringe now? Guilty conscience much?
That’s why I like to do what is right ALL THE TIME-not just when it is popular. There is a lot less backpedaling required.
Great article today.
I think that many of us – me included – coasted on the life issue during the Bush years just because Bush was “pro-life.”
But Obama’s arrogant, in-your-face, pro-abortion stance, has many people myself included wanting to get more active on this issue.
I have contacted the Pro-Life Action League in Chicago for example.
Thanks for fighting for life – and for exposing Obama’s radical agenda of death.
Support for abortion has fluctuated quite a bit over time. Certain Catholics are squawking loudly about Obama’s supposed “pro-abortion extremism” (total hyperbole, it must be said) which might be enough to cause some easily-influenced people to rethink their stance on abortion, but I can’t see this as being a long-term trend.
I also question why pro-lifers give so much credence to levels of support for abortion in the public at large, considering the only way abortion could be made illegal at this point would be for Roe v. Wade to be overturned, which just isn’t going to happen.
Robert,
So you advocate abortion when the family is poor. You must be a millionaire who has no clue what it means to be poor. A good life is not predicated on how much money one has. But you wouldn’t understand.
Whether you are a fan of Mother Teresa or not, she and her sisters care(d) for the poorest of the poor. In Feb. of 1994 at the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, DC she said:
Many people are very, very concerned with the children of India, with the children of Africa where quite a few die of hunger, and so on. Many people are also concerned about the all the violence in this great country of the United States. But often these same people are not concerned with the millions who are being killed by the deliberate decision of their own mothers. And this is what is the greatest destroyer of peace today —abortion which brings people to such blindness.
She understands that love begins at home.
http://www.luisprada.com/Protected/mother_teresa_on_abortion.htm
Devo,
You might want to educate yourself on Obama’s “supposed pro-abortion extremism”. Read the FACTS on Obama’s radical positions on abortion in the box to the right of this post. With the facts, even the most “easily-influenced” of pro-aborts like you can re-think their stance when not influenced by the hyperbole of the left.
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Tom Q.,
I think that many of us – me included – coasted on the life issue during the Bush years just because Bush was “pro-life.”
But Obama’s arrogant, in-your-face, pro-abortion stance, has many people myself included wanting to get more active on this issue.
I have contacted the Pro-Life Action League in Chicago for example.
Many pro-lifers have been “coasting” for sure. God bless those who have been in the fight since the 1970’s. Thanks for your commitment to LIFE!
Janet,
I have educated myself on the supposedly “extreme” abortion positions Obama has taken and I’m not at all convinced that they are very far removed from more “moderate” positions taken on abortion.
In fact, for all this talk of such and such political figures being guilty of “extreme abortion” positions (language tellingly used exclusively by pro-lifers), I don’t believe I have seen anybody articulate what they consider “moderate” or “conservative” pro-choice beliefs to be.
I see you wonder why we single out Obama as an “extreme” rather than a moderate “pro-choicer. Well if you re-familiarize yourself with the abortion- related laws that Obama has supported, you’d find that he has a record of supporting every law improved unfettered access to abortion that has crossed his path, – EVEN a law that would CLARIFY the regulation of late-term abortion procedures so that a baby who was “mistakenly” born alive after a “botched-abortion could be afforded care that would preserve the babies life.
He didn’t want to burden the woman who had planned on a dead baby, not a living one. If that isn’t extreme, what is?
Sorry, correction:
…you’d find that he has a record of supporting every law giving (not “improved”) unfettered access to abortion that has crossed his path…
Devo,
Regarding “moderate” pro-choicers…..There are pro-choicers who lean pro-life and those who lean pro-abortion. The latter have no little or no problem with unregulated abortion and IMHO might as well be called “pro-abortion”.
Supporting certain regulations on abortion, like parental notification laws, trimester limits, etc… are signs of a “moderate”, IMHO. Obama, therefore, would not qualify.
That’s right.Anti-choicers represent the real culture of death, because if they got their way, abortion would not cease at all, and most likely INCREASE. And more and more poor women WOULD die from illegal abortions.
Not only that, they don’t want the government to”hand out money” to the poor, which would only increase and prolong the povertym, the number of abortions, etc. A vicious cycle.
Doo you think poor women would have so many abortions if they weren’t so poor? Of course they wouldn’t.No disrespect to Mother Teresa, but she was terribly misguided and out of touch with reality.
And if contraceptives were to become illegal, this would only INCREASE the number of abortions and create a black market in contraceptives.
The stupid Bush administration denied help to so many poor people in the Third woprld because it was so opposed to abortion and making contraception available.
So what happened? Large numbers of desperately poor women died from botched illegal abortions which could have been prevented if they had received US aid.
That’s the REAL culture of death.
Robert,
Thanks for clearing that up.
Yeah that is it, the Republicans and right wing extremists (redundant?) are actually WINNING!
That’s it, that is the ticket!
‘No disrespect to Mother Teresa, but she was terribly misguided and out of touch with reality.”
I can’t think of anything right now that is farther from the truth than the above statement!!!
So what happened? Large numbers of desperately poor women died from botched illegal abortions which could have been prevented if they had received US aid.
That’s the REAL culture of death.
Posted by: Robert Berger at May 13, 2009 4:46 PM———————————————————– Prove that.
“I can’t think of anything right now that is farther from the truth than the above statement!!!”
That’s been the theme, Eileen.
Bobby! Tell us about the family
Let me sum up Robert Bergers solution to any and all social and environmental problems:
“Kill em’ all and let evolution sort it out.”
Mr. Berger,
If you really believe the gospel you proclaim, then practice what you preach and dig a hole and jump in it and recycle yourself and take a couple of your like minded cohorts with you. You should have no fear of death. You should welcome it. It will solve the all the problems that confront YOU.
Do not give the rest of us a another thought. We will manage fine without you.
But you really do fear death, don’t you? Cause you really love YOUR life. And somewhere hidden in the darkened recesses of your ‘mind’, not your brain, your ‘mind’, that part of you that likes french fries with gravy and summer rains, you know that you are more than just the sum of your constituent parts.
What part of you, that is not your ‘brain’ loses your ‘mind’?
When you die and all that is left behind is your ‘human remains’, what will have departed from them, that was there when you were still ‘alive’?
yor bro ken
janet: “There are pro-choicers who lean pro-life and those who lean pro-abortion. The latter have no little or no problem with unregulated abortion and IMHO might as well be called “pro-abortion”.
Janet, don’t be decieved, they are all pro-abortion. They just try to make up a new definition of the term to suit their purpose. The only widely accepted definition of that term is this:
pro-abortion SYLLABICATION: pro-a·bor·tion PRONUNCIATION: pr-bôrshn ADJECTIVE: Favoring or supporting legalized abortion. http://www.bartleby.com/61/27/P0572700.html
Main Entry: pro·abor·tion Pronunciation: (‘)prO-&-‘bor-sh&n Function: adjective : favoring the legalization of abortion -pro·abor·tion·ist /-sh(&-)n&st/ noun http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=pro-abortion
Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) – pro·a·bor·tion –adjective: PROCHOICE http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=proabortion&r=66
Proabortion: PROCHOICE http://dictionary.infoplease.com/proabortion
Doyle,
Those were my own observations.I was attempting to explain to Devo how far left (extreme) Obama registers on the “support-aborto-meter”.
If what you are basically saying, is “if you’re not for us (PL), you’re against us (PA)”, then I agree with you.
Moderates (in other words, wishy washy) on the issue of pro-life versus pro-choice are those who:
Support women who were raped getting abortions (regardless of whether the child resulted from the rape) even though they don’t support “aborting” two-year-olds resulting from rape
Are okay with killing babies that have Down’s syndrome, but squeamish about killing babies because they are boys (and even more squeamish about killing them because they are girls)
Actually care about whether babies are killed in clean facilities or trailers, by licensed medical professionals or sexual predators–many think that this is why we made abortion legal
Think that it is okay to kill a twenty-week-old fetal human being because he or she has an extra chromosome–so long as they never have to see a picture of that little girl’s broken and bleeding body
Think that abortions shouldn’t be used for birth control or convenience or maybe even economics, but can’t quite articulate how to make that happen, and don’t really think anyone gets an abortion for birth control or convenience or economics
Want half to seventy-five percent of the octuplets dead (not all of them)
Probably wouldn’t be able to stuff a child born at thirty-two weeks into a biohazard bag and throw him in the dumpster–but might not stop someone who was doing it
Think of children generally as a blessing, not a punishment. That is, the first two perfectly healthy children born in a perfect marriage. Because that’s when children generally come.
Don’t think that someone should abort their third child if they are able to raise him or her–but certainly wouldn’t want a third child themselves!
Believe everything the media tells them about “anti-choicers” and “pro-choicers”
Couldn’t really imagine getting an abortion themselves, because they are enlightend and on the pill and have an iud
Look down on people who manage to get themselves into a situation where they “need” an abortion, and secretly think that they probably shouldn’t have kids anyway
Think it is better to be brutally tortured to death than live with poverty or disease (for other people, not themselves, that is)
Never look into the eyes of a woman who felt she had no other choice or a child who had no choice, but rave about our new black president over frozen cappuchinos and leave a stingy tip for the young pregnant woman who served it.
They think that abortion is more humane when it results in a bloody, sliced-up mess than when it results in a fully-formed baby.
They like to say they are pro-choice but can almost never be induced to say that they are pro-choice-to-inject-poison-into-the-beating-hearts-of-fetuses.
Anyone else want to play?
They don’t think a fetus is a baby–except for their baby. Unless it ends up having spina bifida or something, then it’s a fetus again. But really, they loved their baby. Having his brains sucked out was the loving thing to do.
They still have the ultrasound of the “angel” they miscarried at 10 weeks, but not of the 12-week-old baby they aborted when they got pregnant in high school after drinking at a party.
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