President Obama made much of the Executive Order he signed last
March. It was supposed to stop federal funding of abortion. It was
given as a fig leaf to formerly pro-life Democrats who had voted
for ObamaCare and enabled it to pass, narrowly, in the
House of Representatives.
Most pro-life Americans knew the Obama order was a charade. We
have had this administration pushing vigorously for
abortion-on-demand from the first day it took office. Secretary of
State Hillary Clinton had hardly taken her oath of office before
she told a House Foreign Affairs committee hearing early in 2009
that “sexual and reproductive rights and health” were a major goal
of the Obama administration. She assured House members she would do
all in her power to help overturn foreign countries’ pro-life laws.
The Obama administration may not want to protect democracy
demonstrators in the streets of Tehran. That would be, it says,
“meddling.” But it is more than willing to trample the sovereignty
of other nations to advance the Planned Parenthood agenda.
Take Kenya, for example. Kenya suffered terrorist attacks back
in 1998 because of its close ties to the U.S. You would think that
this East African ally would get a special measure of respect,
especially because Barack Obama’s late father, and many of his
relatives, hail from Kenya. Think again.
President Obama dispatched his veep, Joe Biden, to Kenya last
month. Vice President Biden went there specifically to lobby for a
new constitution for Kenya. Art. 26 of that new constitution would
repeal the country’s long-standing pro-life law on abortion. He
spurned the efforts of American-based pro-life groups who are
working to prevent this Roe v. Wade of Kenya. Their
selfless activities, he said, are “one of the drawbacks of
democracy.”
So, having groups using their free speech rights to dissent,
appealing to fellow Christians, is a “drawback of democracy”? James
Madison, call your office. To make matters worse, Joe Biden told
Kenyans that by passing the pro-abortion constitution, they would
“allow money to flow” to Kenya from other countries.
No, Joe, responsible dissent is one of the strengths of
democracy; bribery is one of its drawbacks.
Congressman Chris Smith (R-N.J.) is protesting this intervention
— this pro-abortion meddling — by Joe Biden in the
affairs of a self-governing African nation. He notes that Biden’s
heavy-handed intervention may well be against federal law. Since
2006, the law has said “no foreign assistance funds may be used to
lobby for or against abortion.” This sounds like another case of
Joe Biden over the line.
Joe Biden’s long-term abortion advocacy is well-known. Years
ago, he was hailed at an Amtrak train station by then-Sen. Warren
Rudman (R-NH). The pro-abortion Rudman and Biden ran to meet one
another. They embraced on the train platform, laughing and almost
weeping for joy. Two middle-aged men jumping up and down like
schoolboys on a vacation; that must have been quite a sight.
This scene was all because Rudman’s secret assurances to Biden,
then the Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, about Justice
David Souter had proven correct: Souter would be a solid vote for
abortion-on-demand. When Souter began twenty years of liberal
judicial activism on the Supreme Court, Biden and Rudman were
relieved and they rejoiced.
Grove City College’s Paul Kengor, a careful researcher,
documented all of this from the memoirs of Warren Rudman. (You know
Professor Kengor is a great scholar. Who else would read Warren
Rudman’s memoirs?)
Souter recently left the Court. He left town without renown.
What fate awaits Joe Biden?
That’s not nearly as important as the fate of millions of
Kenyans yet unborn.
coal carrier| 7.13.10 @ 7:37AM
50,000,000 babies have been murdered since Roe v Wade. Now they want to promote it worldwide. Burning in Hell for eternity is too good for these progressive bastards.
Alan Brooks| 7.13.10 @ 3:02PM
It bothers you whites are aborted-- but you don't care about Kenyans; don't give me the line that whites deep down care about black women having abortions, certainly not thousands of miles away in Africa.
Do you lose sleep over African abortions?
Al Adab| 7.13.10 @ 4:08PM
Yes, indeed I do. It is even worse when they are sacrificed to the Idol CHOICE with my tax money.
Choice, Tolerance and Diversity are the Idols of the State Church, while my church is persecuted. Can you find that in the first amendment?
Cogito| 7.13.10 @ 5:38PM
"Can it be that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a nation with its virtue?"
G. Washington
Alan Brooks| 7.13.10 @ 8:53PM
"Yes, indeed I do. It is even worse when they are sacrificed to the Idol CHOICE with my tax money."
So it would make ANY difference whatsoever if abortions were all funded privately? Sounds almost like moral relativism-- "as long as Mafia hits are not govt subsidized."
Alan Brooks| 7.13.10 @ 9:05PM
... REALLY don't get it: how could it be "even worse"? By your lights, if someone cut your grandchildren to pieces with a steak knife, would it make it "even worse" if the knife was paid for on the street with black market food stamps?
Al Adab| 7.14.10 @ 11:31AM
Yes, by forcing others, through coercion, to be culpable for a great evil.
Tina| 7.13.10 @ 6:48PM
Mr. Brooks, why do you assume that anyone, besides yourself, thinks first of race when the subject is killing babies? Abortion is horrible in every case. Human life is not disposable. "Pro Choice" is not about choice. It is about placing the convenience of irresponsible people above the lives they "accidentally" create. If someone chooses not to have children, pregnancy can be prevented - as opposed to terminated. And, yes, an abortion in Kenya is a tragedy equal to an abortion anywhere else in the world.
Alan Brooks| 7.13.10 @ 9:07PM
Tina, you are calm; not a foaming at the mouth rightwinger.
ktr| 7.16.10 @ 8:08PM
Mr Brooks, you try to come off as intelligent and sophisticated. Your logic is lacking. Your positions are weak. You are hardly impressive by your writing.
Aalan Brooks| 7.13.10 @ 9:31PM
I assume it because my controllers have instructed me to. I am nothing, my only function is to to serve the state.
Tina| 7.13.10 @ 11:18PM
Mr. Brooks, is this comment directed at me? Because if it is, the meaning is lost on me.
Caryn Z.| 7.15.10 @ 11:08AM
That's a really racist statement. Race has nothing to do with caring about human lives being taken.
PolishKnight| 7.15.10 @ 1:05PM
Hahahaha! By the same token, Liberals don't care about the fate of the poor or blacks, especially black men. The moment their usefulness is ended, they're pushed out of the back of the cart just as they did to working class "trailer trash" whites.
Since the so-called civil rights movement, millions of black men have been thrown into prison after being raised by unwed mothers. Good going. Don't forget to gas up the limosine with the "go Solar power!" bumper sticker on it.
Enemy of the State #666| 7.13.10 @ 8:21AM
All of this at at the same time unbeknownst to most American's the involvement with obama and his cousin, Odinga, who now holds sway in the leadership agreement with the Kenyan Gov. who is directly involved with the murder of their citizens because the aggitator, obama, worked out the agreement to have Christians killed for the sake of making himself known on the world stage. Now he is openly ( through the veep) involved in the charge of MURDER with their future unborn citizens. I do pray for that special place in hell for this fraud and killer obama along with the whole damned mess called the democrat party.
Gill O’Teen ✝✡$| 7.13.10 @ 9:47AM
Maybe we could work out a swap: Odinga for odingbat. Then bite-me could practice what he preaches by performing an abortion on himself.
Gill O’Teen ✝✡$
gill.Oteen07041776@gmail.com
“All children born, beyond what would be required to keep up the population to a desired level, must necessarily perish, unless room is made for them by the deaths of grown persons. We should facilitate, instead of foolishly and vainly endeavoring to impede, the operations of nature in producing this mortality.” - Thomas Robert Malthus, “An Essay on the Principle of Population”.
"The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members is to kill it."
Margaret Sanger (editor). The Woman Rebel, Volume I, Number 1. Reprinted in Woman and the New Race. New York: Brentanos Publishers, 1922.
Sanger was a disciple of Malthus.
Only 922 days to go.
canuckistani| 7.13.10 @ 9:51AM
What do you suggest? Sending American soldiers to die for a cause that is unwinnable in our lifetimes?
Abortion has been around for thousands of years. Women's rights, however, are a recent innovation, that, unless you still reside under a rock, has improved the western world immensely over the last several generations.
Abortion is abhorrent, but enabling women to posssess the right to protect their interests may be a more responsible course of action.
I would like to read your proposal to force men to accept their life-long responsibilities to their children - with prison and even capital punishment if they fail to do so. Simply abandoning women when the man fails to step up is no policy and creates a fate worse than death for the mother and child.
KyMouse| 7.13.10 @ 10:20AM
Canuckistani, I'd say that death is the worse fate. Poverty can be overcome, and has been overcome by many people who went on to do great things. But being dismembered and dropped into a scrap bucket is a dead end (and some mothers are injured or killed during "safe, legal" abortions).
There are places where "abandoned" mothers can receive many kinds of help, including the more than 4,000 pregnancy-resource centers in the United States. Most are staffed by volunteers. Surely Canada has similar centers? If not, why not get together with other concerned citizens and open one in your area?
Just about every school teaches sex education, but I wonder how many teach girls that they view sex and romance differently from boys. We need to teach girls that nest-building isn't what boys want; and that boys and girls mean very different things when they say "I love you." Young men aren't looking for "Ms. Right," but for "Ms. Right Now."
Concerning this article: Pro-abortion proponents often claim that women in developing countries need the right to abortion in order to improve their health care. However, most maternal deaths (whether a pregnancy ends with a live birth or abortion) can be prevented with better nutrition, basic overall health care, and good obstetric/prenatal care. Legalizing abortion does nothing to solve the underlying problem of poor medical care in the developing world.
Women in poor countries deserve care that results in a healthy outcome for mother AND baby.
Even the U.N.'s Declaration of the Rights of the Child has recognized the intrinsic value of the unborn: "The child, by reason of his physical and mental immaturity, needs special safeguards and care, including appropriate legal protection, before as well as after birth."
Gill O’Teen ✝✡$| 7.13.10 @ 11:19AM
Bravo, KyMouse! Well written! I dub thee KyTyger.
Gill O’Teen ✝✡$
gill.Oteen07041776@gmail.com
“Tyger! Tyger! burning bright,
“In the forests of the night,
“What immortal hand or eye
“Could frame thy fearful symmetry?”
- William Blake: “Songs of Innocence (1789) and Experience (1794)”
Only 922 days to go.
KyTyger| 7.13.10 @ 2:29PM
Gill, thanks! I liketh it muchly! Also your nick -- very creative.
Gill O’Teen ✝✡$| 7.13.10 @ 11:48AM
The first human action recorded in The Holy Bible that we today would consider a crime was a murder. By your logic all murder should then be acceptable simply because of its seniority to other nefarious acts. The biological truth is that babies are endowed by The Creator at their conception with certain unalienable rights, paramount of these is the right to live. While I might agree that women have the right to control their own bodies, DNA proves that her unborn child has its own unique genetic footprint and therefore has its own body. She may do what she wants to herself, but she may not harm another. Jesus said in Matthew 25:40, “And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.” What could be more ‘least’ than a defenseless, unborn baby?
Gill O’Teen ✝✡$
gill.Oteen07041776@gmail.com
"We should hire three or four colored ministers, preferably with social-service backgrounds, and with engaging personalities. The most successful educational approach to the Negro is through a religious appeal. We don't want the word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population. And the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members."
Margaret Sanger's December 19, 1939 letter to Dr. Clarence Gamble, 255 Adams Street, Milton, Massachusetts. Original source: Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College, North Hampton, Massachusetts.
For the clueless, Margaret Sanger started Planned Parenthood which might be the largest abortion mill in OUR Country.
Only 922 days to go.
Gill O’Teen ✝✡$| 7.13.10 @ 11:59AM
Oops! My 11:48 AM post was intended as a reply to canuckistani @ 9:51AM. However, it appears that I inadvertently posted it as a reply to KyTyger. I sincerely apologize to KyMouse for my error.
Gill O’Teen ✝✡$
gill.Oteen07041776@gmail.com
"And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.” - Genesis 4:8
Only 922 days to go.
KyTyger| 7.13.10 @ 2:32PM
Oh nooooo, Gill! Do I have to go back to being KyMouse? I've already written to Dear Diary about this exciting change of nick! :(
Dasboot| 7.13.10 @ 12:46PM
You imply that feminism that wrought legalized abortion has improved the western world. I could argue the opposite that women more unhappy, vindictive, angry and entitled than at any other time in history.
canuckistani| 7.13.10 @ 3:49PM
For the record, I am against abortion. But, the big but, is that the world is not black and white and does not exist in absolutes. The gray area exists where we ascribe to the notion that a woman can be forced to carry an unwanted child to term, and either a) agree to adopt out or b) attempt to raise the child under horrific conditions. Unfortunately, there are not enough Madonnas or Jolies out there to adopt these kids into what we consider western households. I would like to take a poll of readers here who have taken a huge sacrifice and adopted one of these children as their own. My dejection starts when they never choose to get out their momma's basements and actually do something. Option b is the likely result where children are the forgotten ones with abuse and disease the norm.
crookedwren| 7.13.10 @ 3:37PM
So people who are unemployed and have no way to support their families should simply kill them????
Are you another Obama mushroom?
canuckistani| 7.13.10 @ 3:54PM
No and no.
But I do know we don't have the guts or the inclination to support that unwanted child to adulthood in this country or any other to the levels of care we enjoyed. As adults, we're the ones who make the hard choices in life, and this one is the hardest.
I think the spectrum needs to be understood: do you agree to legalize abortion for rape and incest? I do and If you do to, there are millions of pregnancies in the developing world to teenage girls who were married and impregnated against their wills. In this country, that is rape. Am I equivocating or are you willing to take even US law to extremes that exist in arab and 3rd world countries? What's next?
loveslife| 7.15.10 @ 11:44AM
Ah, this is the usual argument! So many claim the rape thing when they talk about abortions. All life is sacred to God and all life deserves a chance to prove who they are before God. Rape and incest is only a small portion of lives created ... your argument for abortion using this is typical of persons who do support abortion.
50 million babies were not born and how many would have been - great pianists, inventors, statesmen, someone who would smile at me as I crossed their paths, etc., etc., etc. NO chance at finding out... and how absolutely SAD that makes me.
Your life is precious and you guard it... thank your Mother for not aborting you!
Alan Brooks| 7.13.10 @ 8:59PM
"Enemy of the State #666:
All of this at at the same time unbeknownst to most American's the involvement with obama and his cousin, Odinga, who now holds sway in the leadership agreement with the Kenyan Gov. who is directly involved with the murder of their citizens because the aggitator, obama, worked out the agreement to have Christians killed for the sake of making himself known on the world stage. Now he is openly ( through the veep) involved in the charge of MURDER with their future unborn citizens. I do pray for that special place in hell for this fraud and killer obama along with the whole damned mess called the democrat party."
Well, no one can call you a Commie, Mr. 666.
Tyrrell, you have some genuine freemarket guys here! some wild-eyed rightwing boys! Looks as if private property might be enthroned again after all.
bluecollarbytes| 7.13.10 @ 8:42AM
Where is Vice Pres Biteme when he's 'needed' to visit Islamic nations in order to encourage better treatment of females- at least putting them above the value of livestock? What about the Chinese govt's use of slave labor and its body-parts industry? What about the institutionalized corruption of Mexico? If we're going to intrude, we should intrude in useful ways.
chris haynes| 7.13.10 @ 9:59AM
A big tent holds a lot of barbarians.
Scott Brown, Gulianni, harriett Meyers, Daviud Souter, Schwartznegger.
All of them. They believe unborn children can be killed for convenience. No equality of all men. No inaleienable rights for our moderates.
Now lets teach those Moslems how to respect rights we deny.
Tim| 7.13.10 @ 10:33AM
You would think that Obama would endorse the Pro Life Rule for kenya considering he himself received the benefit of such a rule.
Imagine if the abortion had been widespread in Kenya, there perhaps would be no Obama in the White House.
Abortion is evil period! and that means even if you are a socialist or a future socialist.
Louis Jenkins| 7.13.10 @ 11:18AM
Wait a minute! Isn't Kenya becoming or has become a Muslim nation? Doesn't Kenya, Dhinga, et al., have the right to decide on their own what they will do and not do? Doesn't Muslim nations particularly ban abortion? So what gives here? We have veep Bite Me going to Kenya and he says "The money will flow" if you will only allow abortion. And that smells of women's rights because abortion goes with those rights. So what is it? Can they or can't they have abortion on demand? This article confuses one to a certain extent. But then, that's what Obumar is counting on.
RCV| 7.15.10 @ 7:21PM
Really, Louis, where do you come up with these "facts"? Kenya is 78% Christian, with only about 10% of the population being Muslim.
Gill O’Teen ✝✡$| 7.13.10 @ 11:29AM
I’m really confused, possibly as an aftershock from my stroke, but statistically wouldn’t about half of all abortions kill baby girls. Don’t little girls, if given a fair chance, grow up to become women? So wouldn’t abortion deny these future women their reproductive rights?
Gill O’Teen ✝✡$
gill.Oteen07041776@gmail.com
"The campaign for birth control is not merely of eugenic value, but is practically identical with the final aims of eugenics." - Margaret Sanger. "The Eugenic Value of Birth Control Propaganda." Birth Control Review, October 1921, page 5.
Only 922 days to go.
Al Adab| 7.13.10 @ 12:08PM
Gill,
What a great, outstanding string of posts here today. Most articulate stuff, with all the proper quotes, in a while.
You point out correctly the origins of the Faith that the Left has in their agenda. It is that Faith they intend to impose on us all. Reality has no role in the pursuit of that agenda. It must be done because we poor self-governing plebs just aren't smart enough to know what's good for us.
When we realize that self-government is under attack, we might see clearly how the various issues come together to create the threat. Every issue is seen by the Left in terms of centralization. There is the battle and there is where we must stand.
"To every man upon the earth death commeth soon or late,"
"and how can man die better than facing fearful odds"
"for the ashes of his fathers and the temple of his Gods."
earlyparades | 7.13.10 @ 11:52AM
Abortion is murder. End of story.
Cheeta| 7.13.10 @ 12:36PM
What this administration fails to recognize is the division they are breeding among the Kenyan people. Kenya is only just recovering from the political violence which shut down the counttry in 2007 and 2008. Sewing the seeds of discord will serve no purpose in moving the country towards ratifiction of the new consititution. To bribe Gov't officials with the threat of no aid/money is at the lowest form of governing. There have already been bombings and killings because of this hot button issue, to further fan the flames of unrest is insanity.
Few Americans realize the value we have in Kenya due to it's relative stability in the region and close proximity to Somalia. The 400 mile long border between Kenya and Somalia is an open gateway for AQ Africa to have access to the rest of the world through a major hub such as Nairobi. Yemen, with AQAP, is just across the straights and easily ferried into the country though the port of Kismayo which AL Shabab controls. It is in our own security interest to not push Kenya into a political struggle creating chaos and insecurity.
In addition to the security aspect, the immoral bribery to push an immoral act into Federal law in Kenya is reprehensible. I am ashamed and embarrassed of this administration. It is time to put adults back in the WH.
Alyosha K| 7.13.10 @ 2:02PM
So we selectively kill Black Americans, per Margaret Sanger's plan, and now we are exporting genocide to Africa? Isn't it enough to kill our own black children? Must we go kill the children of others as well?
lovelife| 7.15.10 @ 11:47AM
Thank you for noting Sangers role in all this... and she was working for more abortions for black children...... founder of Planned Parenthood!
anonymous| 7.13.10 @ 4:29PM
Ever heard of NSSM200? Well - that is precisely what the US is doing. Watch Maafa21 and see how eugenic and racist this abortion thing is. It is a tool of population control - period ! Maafa21 guys- Maafa21 - get it - watch it- weep ! http://www.maafa21.com
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robert williams | 7.15.10 @ 11:45AM
the U. S.A. Government Needs to keep there Nose out of Forign Countries Government Issues we need to Mind our own Bussniss like we Did Befor we Got Involved with this so called World Trade Economich and Forign Affares we Were Better off when we took care of our own probblems and kept our nose out of Other Contriesproblems
Chris Hammond| 7.15.10 @ 11:58AM
Typical right wing ranting about protecting "life" with no substantive remedy to Kenya's out-0f-control birth rates and poverty, not to mention the host of human rights abuses allowed through Kenya's old Constitution. Save me your hellfire and bring some solutions to the table. Some of you have a concern for life at conception, but, remarkably, that concern wanes at birth, unless, of course, it's tied to teaching your narrow, diluted view of God and Country.
KyMouse| 7.15.10 @ 4:37PM
Mr. Hammond, the emphasis in Africa and elsewhere should not be on making it more convenient to kill unborn babies, but on increasing access to adequate nutrition, basic health care, and good obstetric care for mothers.
Concerning obstetric care, for example, many African women have no birth attendant, an unsanitary medical environment, insufficient or absent emergency facilities and supplies, poorly trained physicians and other medical staff, and basic medical and surgical supplies (including antibiotics and sterile gloves). These are concrete issues that can be addressed.
Legalized abortion leads to more abortions--and in the developing world, where maternal health care is poor, legalized abortion would increase the number of women who die or are harmed by abortion. And of course, their babies die.
You say, "Some of you have a concern for life at conception, but, remarkably, that concern wanes at birth..." There are more than 4,000 pregnancy-care centers in the United States; most are staffed by volunteers who are eager to help mothers who are considering aborting their babies. Some volunteers help out on a regular basis, while others come over only occasionally. Some cut the grass; others do grocery runs or perform other chores.
I myself help out in a pro-life organization that helps mothers find financial, emotional, spiritual and material assistance. And we follow-up with them long after their children are born.
Why not locate a pregnancy-care center in your area and pitch in? Or is it you who lacks "concern"?
Bubbs| 7.15.10 @ 12:20PM
How about we just quit vaccinating them and sending medical and food aid. Once the mortality rate rises to compensate for the birthrate, the population will reach equilibrium. It would save us a lot more money than if we just keep meddling. Oddly, weren't the pro-life pseudo-conservatives babbling on about Kenya being full of terrorists during the 2008 campaign? Why wouldn't they want to nip terrorism in the bud before it can escape from the womb and attack us? Just cut off the aid, shred the HIV/AIDS awareness pamphlets and let them die from their own dysfunction. Once the current inhabitants are gone, the land can be properly colonized and no one's left pointing fingers in a banal tantrum of moral outrage.
Chris Hammond| 7.15.10 @ 12:46PM
I hope this is intentionally sarcastic; if not, seek help.
sanrita| 7.15.10 @ 6:57PM
What is it with your supercilious deniers of reality? There is an overpopulation problem in the world and as others of your ilk, you'd rather see millions starve so you can feel better about yourself, than support safe family planning and abortion? You thugs make me sick.