And on this anniversary, I hope that we will recommit ourselves more broadly to ensuring that our daughters have the same rights, the same freedoms, and the same opportunities as our sons to fulfill their dreams.
~President Barack Obama’s Statement on the 38th Anniversary of Roe vs. Wade, New York Times “The Caucus” Blog, January22
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Can I just THROW UP?
Did he really say that? Just so twisted. Exploiting our sweet, young daughters and covering up what really happens when “rights” of just the mother are demanded.
Since I have three daughters I have been teaching them of their extreme value in God’s eyes and not to follow the lies of our culture. (our Pres.) They will know authentic love from their parents, and their LORD. And know once blessed with the joy of motherhood they will love their child more than their own life.
PRAYING for revival of our Churches and thanking God for awareness of this difficult issue through your ministry, Jill. Crying for those who need Jesus and to deeply show love to these young women.
“broadly ensuring that only our daughters that make it out of the womb alive have the same rights…..”
Gotta dig that sign.
Oooh, that statement. I blogged about this yesterday. He’s so incredibly anti-feminist in this comment, while pretending that he’s on women’s side here.
God, have mercy on his soul!!!!!
“And on this anniversary, I hope that we will recommit ourselves more broadly to ensuring that our daughters have the same rights, the same freedoms, and the same opportunities as our sons to fulfill their dreams.”
They already HAVE the same rights, freedoms and opportunities!!! They don’t need to kill their children for that!!! Gosh, how can he be so blind??? A woman’s life doesn’t end with the pregnancy – she can still fulfill her dreams and have opportunities! What is needed is to make OUR SONS equally responsible for the lives they create, and I mean LEGALLY responsible to care for children that are concieved, instead of running off and leaving women with “your body – your choice”. I can bet you however much you want – if men were made legally responsible for taking care of all babies concieved by women they sleep with, and women had the assurance that if she got pregnant – the father of the baby is LEGALLY responsible and will HAVE TO help at least financially, the abortion rates would drop significantly. Why? Because if a woman knows she will be able to provide for that baby and will be able to afford rent/supplies/childcare while she goes to school/work, even with no other support from family/friends/etc she’d still most likely choose life!
When it comes to opting out of being the parent of a born baby, women have more rights than men do. Pregnant women have a period of months to decide if they really want to give birth, whereas the father of that baby is at the mercy of whatever the mother decides. Pro-choicers act as though it’s so horrible to have the attitude that women who have sex should be prepared to deal with the consequences, when the truth is that that’s what men who have sex have to do. It’s not as easy as just walking into court and giving up your parental rights. Unless a man is giving up his parental rights so another man can adopt the child, lots of courts just flat-out won’t let him give up his parental rights. There’s a case in my Family Law book about a pre-teen boy who was statutorialy raped by his teenage babysitter. When she got pregnant and had their baby, he and his parents went to court to argue that he shouldn’t have to pay child support because he was both a child and the victim of a crime. The court said he had to anyway, in order to provide a good life for the child – “the truly innocent party.”
If this had been a pre-teen girl who was statutorily raped by her male babysitter, she could have gotten an abortion. No one would have ever implied in a court of law that she, as the victim of a crime, was less than “truly innocent”. “Our daughters” can opt out of ever having born children, whereas “our sons” can only avoid parenthood by not ever having vaginal intercourse with a woman who’s capable of conceiving a child. Back before abortion was legal, each parent was going to at least be the biological parent of a born child, unless one or both decided to break the law. Legalized abortion has made women the arbiters of life, death, and parenthood.
Biological fathers are already legally responsible for children they sire. However, practically speaking, you can’t force a poor father to provide for a child he can’t afford any more than you can afford a poor mother to do the same.
This way of thinking is so 1970’s!! It’s truly embarrassing that our president is so unenlightened. Praying for him.
President Obama,
What about the fathers of aborted babies? Are their dreams of fatherhood unimportant? Is ”my body, my choice” your justification for abortion? Is the life question still above your pay grade? What would it take for you to change your mind????? What if one of your daughters wanted to abort your grandchild? Is that OK?
However, practically speaking, you can’t force a poor father to provide for a child he can’t afford any more than you can afford a poor mother to do the same.
Yes, the courts most certainly CAN, and do. I personally know of at least 2 families who are near poverty with kids to raise, where the fathers are paying child support they cannot afford for kids from previous marriages. This is to the great detriment of their new family and the children who live under their roof.
Obama makes me sick. Like, physically ill. I can’t even LISTEN to him. Abortion doesn’t make women equal…It says “WE NEED TO KILL OUR BABIES IN ORDER TO BE EQUAL.” That’s not equality. I don’t even know WHAT that is.
Janet says:
January 24, 2011 at 9:26 am
What if one of your daughters wanted to abort your grandchild? Is that OK?
Just a reminder, Janet, he also said: “I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.” And since in his mind a child is a punishment, I don’t think he’d have a problem “removing” that punishment from his daughter.
Vita,
I remember that comment. It was early 2008 in PA. Apparently he was speaking off-the-cuff; wouldn’t it have been wonderful if he had immediately retracted that statement? As his girls get older, I would hope he would reconsider. Hopefully the girls’ values will be different from their Dad’s. We can pray….
“And since in his mind a child is a punishment, I don’t think he’d have a problem “removing” that punishment from his daughter.”
An unwanted baby is a punishment. You’re just showing your partisan hatred for the man to think that he, a father of two daughters that he clearly adores, considers all children to be a punishment.
Obama also supports permissive abortion laws that separate/eliminate families from the abortion decision and then, in order to appear middle of the road and reasonable, continually makes the statement that this is a family decision.
And thanks Marauder. So true, so true.
Joan, and “unwanted” baby is not a punishment. There should be no such thing as an “UNWANTED” baby. Unplanned, maybe. Unwanted, no. How fascist can one be? UNWANTED?!
Right. Mary Lee. Just because the mother/father doesn’t want the child doesn’t mean that child is “unwanted”. There is somebody, somewhere who WANTS that child. My father didn’t want me, my grandparents didn’t want me but, Thank God, my MOTHER did.
There’s no such thing as an unwanted baby. Someone somewhere wants to be a mother or father and wants that baby. The problem is, instead of matching all these babies to hopeful parents, we flush the babies down the garbage disposal, and force the would-be parents to wait for years and spend ridiculous amounts of money.
You hit the proverbial nail on the head Clarice. There’s a lot of money to be made:
Step 1: abort the firstborn, a modest money maker
Step 2: if you’re lucky, the mom will do it again, more $$
Step 3: wait for the resulting increase in infertility and miscarriages and at the same time follow Step 4,
Step 4: discourage adoption, maintain ‘shame’ for not being smart enough to abort
We are now ready for the big money maker:
Step 5: IVF! Now we’re making the big bucks
Step 6: IVF failed, but many couples will try again! more big buck$$$!
Both the abortion industry and it’s sister business, the fertility/IVF industry, make a lot of money off the Wanted vs Unwanted labels that they encourage people to stick on human children. You? Wanted, you may live. You? Unwanted, to the dumpster you go. We? Make a lot of money off your pain. Cha ching.
Anyone who buys into it is no better than a sheep with a bank account. Sorry sheep, it’s just a figure of speech.
Obama makes me sick. Like, physically ill. I can’t even LISTEN to him.
Agreed. And is it just me, or does he always seem to be in campaign mode?
I know! He really does! And I don’t dislike him because of his color, or his background….I dislike him because he’s a liar, and a manipulator, and his principles are horrifyingly disgusting. I liked Clinton, and frankly, I’d rather have Hilary in office than Obama (….I could be wrong here, but she seems more capable and far less extremist than Obama is)….I really hope this country votes him out of office in 2012. He is a wretched, wretched President. He has made this country worse, in more ways than one. He is incompetent, and incapable of fixing up the mess this country is in. I’d like to make one of those Obama posters that say “HOPE” and change it to “DOPE.”
You know what I’d like to see? A gay conservative president. That would be pretty cool.
There are no unwanted lives. Being conceived in rape and therefore part of the group that is exhibit #1 on the pro abort’s list of unwanted lives, I am offended (again) by the word “unwanted” being tossed around here as justification for recommending killing me 53 years ago. Being unwanted did not prevent me from having a family through adoption by loving parents, living a productive life and having a great wife and family of my own. When confronted by an unwanted life saved, all the wanted vs. unwanted theories of life’s value come crashing to the ground.
Every Life Matters
President Barrak Hussein Obama is an empty suit.
Might as well just have TOTUS connected directly to a text to speech translator and use an disembodied digitalized electronic voice to broadcast the propaganda.
His words are worthless. He speaks with forked tongue out of both sides of mouth.
He lies as easliy as he breathes.
There is nothing beneath this barabarian.
“I hope that we will recommit ourselves more broadly to ensuring that our daughters have the same rights, the same freedoms, and the same opportunities as our sons to fulfill their dreams.”
Ah yes, the old “women are naturally inferior to men” argument. Without abortion, women could not be equal to men. Thus, women are naturally inferior to men.
Ken, if you have policy differences with our President, feel free to say so. Call him a “barbarian” or an “empty suit” isn’t very helpful.
Is he saying that if a woman has a child she forfeits her opportunities, freedoms, and rights? Is he saying that being a mother in some way makes a woman weaker, either personally or professionally? I’d like to ask Mr. President what’s so taboo about being a mother, and why doesn’t the same taboo apply to fathers in his opinion?
I’ll be praying for you, Mr. Obama, and all your colleagues. May you respect the life and freedoms of ALL.
Maybe he’s just admitting he was a burden to his own mother.
Such an absurd statement, as many have said here. If he ties abortion to a woman’s pursuiit of happiness, it is so obvious that the same should be true for men. End of forcing any obligation of support on them.
Here I am agreeing with Hal again. What’s wrong with me?
I detest the treatment that Palin gets, and just about every other conservative for that matter. So it would be hypocritical to get all upset about something like that but engage in shooting name darts at Barry.
Now the Prez, yes, I wildly disagree with him and believe he is truly up to no good, but I’ve been trying to not go off on him like I see others do on my side of the aisle.
Why? Three words:
Sasha and Malia.
hal says: January 24, 2011 at 8:47 pm
“Ken, if you have policy differences with our President, feel free to say so. Call him a “barbarian” or an “empty suit” isn’t very helpful.”
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hal,
At least I identified the barbarian in the empty suit as the ‘president’.
It might not seem helpful to ‘you’, but the ‘truth’ is always helpful.
Hitler and the National Socialist Party (NAZI) turned the Geraman economy around and restored the Geman national pride. Some of their ‘policies’ were helpful, but Hitler and the NAZI party [think democRAT] are not remembered for reducing unemployement or the Volkswagon’.
America’s national socialist party is the democRAT party.
Their polcies have done nothing to improve unemployment, the inflation rate, or human rights.
The unemployment rate and the inflation rate, both which are deliberately obfuscated by this administration, have continued to rise.
Before the remaining two years of the presidents term have expired, the misery index will have eclipsed the mark set under Jimmy Carter’s four year ‘Reign of Error’.
Any person who ‘celebrates’ the deaths of 40 million of their fellow human beings is a barbarian. [With aplogies to Pharoh, Herod, Atilla the Hun, Genghis Khan, all the other barbarians throughout history.]
Unfortunately, children do not get to choose their parents, tho in todays brave new world, parents do get to pick and choose which of their children will live.
I do not hold the children responsible for the sins of their father.
The ‘obama’ has made himself who and what he is, not me, not my words.
I guess what I am hearing is similar to obama’s ‘I don’t want to punish my daughter with a baby.’
I shouldn’t punish Obama’ daughters with their father.
Obama is what he is. Let it acquit him or condemn him.
If you can’t refrain from calling the Democratic Party the “DemocRAT” party, we can’t have a discussion. You are what you are, I suppose.
It’s too bad the rights of the unborn are “above his pay grade.” He disgusts me.
Yor, I just got a call from a group of empty suits. They said to stop comparing them to Obama; it offends them. Likewise, the rats are also offended. They texted me: “tru we spred plague nd r vry dirty but pls stop insulting us by cmparing to filthy pols”
Ninek,
Just came across this gem.
HEAT OF THE MOMENT
Killing 40 million people? Now, that’s green!
Genghis Khan hailed as environmentalist for ‘scrubbing’ humanity’s carbon footprint
Posted: January 25, 2011
7:08 pm Eastern
By Drew Zahn
© 2011 WorldNetDaily
http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=255473#ixzz1C9HTGt1B
“Who knew that killing 40 million people could be hailed as having a “positive” effect on global warming? “
“The research on Khan’s net effect on the environment was first published in the climate-change journal The Holocene, prompting Nelson to pen his article titled “Was Genghis Khan History’s Greenest Conqueror?”
“So how exactly did Genghis Khan, one of history’s cruelest conquerors, earn such a glowing environmental report card?” Nelson writes. “The reality may be a bit difficult for today’s environmentalists to stomach, but Khan did it the same way he built his empire – with a high body count.”
“Julia Pongratz of the Carnegie Institution’s Department of Global Ecology was lead author of the study into Khan’s environmental impact.”
“The research has already been reported widely, not only on Mother Nature News, but also in newspapers around the world and on conservationist websites like Mongabay and Planetsave, the latter of which hailed Khan as “an environmentalist.”
“Columnists and commentators aside, the researchers behind the study claim their research is relevant to today’s climate controversies, but left specific application of their findings somewhat vague.”
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The ‘specific application of their findings is NOT vague to any one with average intelligence who is paying attention.