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.
