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Buffett, the Times, and the Weeping Abortionist

By on 7.28.10 @ 6:08AM

Proud billionaire sponsors of the culture of death.

It can’t be news that the Gray Lady — the unofficial title of the New York Times — is militantly pro-abortion. It might even be called a house organ of the abortion lobby.

But a recent lengthy story in the Times (“The New Abortion Providers,” July 12, 2010) is a goldmine of information for pro-lifers about this execrable traffic.

Did you know that Warren Buffett has given $3 billion — yes, three billion dollars — to promote abortion here in the U.S. and around the world? Often, government officials in developing countries are under pressure to control population in order to qualify for international aid. So they pressure women in the villages to get abortions. Western Europe is especially strong in pushing for abortion in these developing countries.

The Times article quotes Buffett’s late wife telling interviewer Charlie Rose, “Warren feels that women all over the world get shortchanged. That’s why he’s so pro-choice.”

The article tells us after Susan Thompson Buffett moved from Omaha, Nebraska, to San Francisco in 1977, she and Warren remained close. She even introduced Warren to the woman he has lived with since 1978. This threesome would send out Christmas cards together, the Times informs us.

Warren Buffett strongly backed Barack Obama. On January 23, 2009, President Obama’s first official act was to open the sluice gates of taxpayer support for abortion worldwide. The U.S. has now joined those exerting pressure on women in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. We may be going broke, but Planned Parenthood is still making a killing.

Abortion promotion is a national security crisis for the U.S. Men and women in the Third World get it. They know that by pressing abortion on their countries — as Joe Biden has done recently in Kenya — the Obama administration wants fewer of them. These peoples will become fertile ground for anti-Americanism.

The Times also reports abortionists in this country are “startled by some poll numbers that for the first time, more Americans call themselves pro-life than pro-choice — a shift that includes young people.” The author of the article, a zealous pro-abortion writer named Emily Bazelon, noted that four of seven medical residents in one training program she witnessed chose not to take part in abortion.

All over the world, it seems, abortion traffickers are losing support. Abby Johnson, a former Planned Parenthood center director from Texas, quit and joined the pro-life side. Her story made headlines on Fox News, on cable shows, and on the talk show circuit.

Of course, not all abortionists are affected by these changing currents of opinion. The respected journal First Things carried this stunning item last January:

In stark and sad contrast to the story of Abby Johnson is the story of a doctor in the Midwest who wrote about her own moment of disillusionment. It came as she performed an abortion on a woman eighteen weeks pregnant while she herself was eighteen weeks pregnant. “I felt a kick — a fluttery ‘thump, thump’ in my own uterus. It was one of the first times I felt fetal movement. There was a leg and foot in my forceps, and a ‘thump, thump’ in my abdomen. Instantly, tears were streaming from my eyes — without me — meaning my conscious brain — even being aware of what was going on. I felt as if my response had come entirely from my body, bypassing my usual cognitive processing completely. A message seemed to travel from my hand and my uterus to my tear ducts. It was an overwhelming feeling — a brutally visceral response — heartfelt and unmediated by my training or my feminist pro-choice politics.”

Horrifyingly, for this woman, unlike Abby Johnson, that was not the end of it. Her illusion was gone, but she continued to perform abortions. “Doing second trimester abortions did not get easier after my pregnancy,” she said. “In fact, dealing with little infant parts of my born baby only made dealing with dismembered fetal parts sadder.”

First Things has long led in reporting important news about the Culture of Life. From this source, we learn that 78% of abortion facilities are located in or near minority neighborhoods in this country.

Is it, therefore, any surprise to learn that Warren Buffett has joined the club of billionaires who pressure black and brown women around the world to kill their unborn children? Planned Parenthood is the favorite charity of many billionaires. The problem Buffett and others of his ilk have is the weeping abortionists. The law that is written on our heart tells us not to kill our own kind. Even if all the people on earth hardened their hearts to those kicks, those fluttery thump-thumps, the very stones would cry out.

About the Author

Ken Blackwell, the former mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio is Vice Chairman of the Republican National Committee’s Platform Committee. He also serves on the boards of the Club For Growth and the National Taxpayers Union.

Letter to the Editor View all comments (87) |

ds80| 7.28.10 @ 8:21AM

The Times article quotes Buffett's late wife telling interviewer Charlie Rose, "Warren feels that innocent unborn children all over the world should be dismembered so their mothers don't feel shortchanged. That's why he's so pro-choice."

Alan Brooks| 7.28.10 @ 1:36PM

Even if all abortions cease, America would still be a culture of death-- we are a violent behemoth like Russia and China, we're not Vatican City or Monaco.
When you discuss economics you are on solid ground; when you discuss anything else you are over your heads.

bob alou| 7.28.10 @ 1:43PM

Oh Mr. Brooks, you are so wise. Please lead us out of the moral ambiguity to which we so fervently cling.

Alan Brooks| 7.28.10 @ 3:56PM

No, there is no hope for you.
You are doomed to perdition, bob.

Alan Brooks| 7.28.10 @ 3:59PM

... it is fake-compassion;
you are not going to suggest that ANYONE here at AS stays up at night worrying about abortion?

KyMouse| 7.28.10 @ 9:46PM

Yes, Mr. Brooks, some of us here are actively, passionately involved in helping mothers and their babies, before and after birth. For my part, I've been a volunteer in a pro-life ministry for more than a decade, and I (and my church) support several pregnancy-resource centers in our area. I also write pro-life op ed pieces and letters to the editor, and they actually get published. I share facts about abortion and other "life" topics in chatrooms and comment sections such as this one. I do more, whenever I can, as the good Lord and my employer allow. (And I know other folks who do far, far more for this cause.)

ds80| 7.28.10 @ 11:19PM

How many abortion mills have *you* stood outside of, in prayer for the unborn, Mr. Disingenuous Alan Brooks?

Quartermaster| 7.29.10 @ 5:49PM

Mr. Brooks is a member in good standing of the culture of death. He is so morally screwed up he doesn't know the difference between murder and self-defense. You won't see him standing outside any abortuary trying to end the heinous practice.

Jerry C| 7.29.10 @ 12:10PM

Right, we still have capital punishment even though we only execute the poor, and it costs more that putting someone in jail for life.

KyMouse| 7.29.10 @ 1:37PM

Jerry, a commonwealth's attorney here in Kentucky wrote an op ed piece about capital punishment in 2001; he made interesting points about "executing the poor" in this state. How does your state's law differ?

"Opponents claim that defendants are sentenced to death because they are poor," Phillip Patton wrote. "The fact is, capital punishment applies only to a small percentage of murders. In Kentucky, premeditated murder does not carry the death penalty. A murder must be coupled with another specified felony, to be death eligible. The most common aggravator is armed robbery.

"While the rich commit murder, they rarely rob convenience stores, killing the clerk."

You may read brief bios of Kentucky's 35 current death row inmates at www.corrections.ky.gov/inmateinfo/deathrow.htm. They include Virginia Caudill, who, with an accomplice, beat to death a 74-year-old woman before burglarizing her home. Then they drove her corpse out to a rural area and set it on fire.

deb | 7.28.10 @ 8:22AM

Let's not forget that the founder of Planned Parenthood was also a big believer in Eugenics - getting rid of the 'lesser races' as they believed them was for the greater good to these monsters.

Alan Brooks| 7.28.10 @ 1:38PM

Well then David Duke ought to join Planned Parenthood.

jawin| 7.28.10 @ 2:10PM

Mr. Brooks, you get the idea precisely!

Alan Brooks| 7.28.10 @ 5:28PM

If you were able to ban abortion, the increase in population would have David Dukes pushing all the harder to eliminate what they consider inferior humans.

Alan Brooks| 7.28.10 @ 5:29PM

... and BTW, they would succeed eventually; such people play for keeps-- they mean what they say.

Stephanie| 7.28.10 @ 8:30AM

Advocating for black and brown women to kill their unborn children, coming from our "first black president". Now THAT is rich.
A culture of death indeed.

jawin| 7.28.10 @ 2:20PM

Except in moslem dominated countires.....

Bob K.| 7.28.10 @ 8:33AM

This lion too shall pass although like many billionaires he may think he will live forever.

"For to him that is joined to ALL the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion."
Ecclesiastes 9:4

Doctor Right| 7.28.10 @ 9:02AM

Warren Buffet has successfully cultivated an image as an "aw shucks!", American-as-apple-pie kind of guy who reminds you of your grandfather but who just happens to be (golly!) a billionaire.

In fact, Buffet is a despicable crony-capitalist. Even worse, he's an elitist, and not the kind of harmless elitist that lingers in academia or in the media. Buffet is an elitist who believes in a stratified society with men like him, of course, at the top, wisely guiding the lives of "the little people".

For me, the jig was up when Buffet announced his disapproval of tax-cuts. Now why would any reputable businessman be against tax-cuts unless he personally has something to gain? Then, when Warren tipped his hand completely and endorsed Obama in 2008, it was clear whose side he's on - and it's not the side of average Americans.

When this country is reclaimed from the leftist savages, I hope we don't forget the cronies like Buffet who tried to sell us down the river to enrich his already bloated pockets...

jawin| 7.28.10 @ 2:24PM

Bueffet is emblematic of so many of the richest on the US. It's a complete misapprehension to believe the rich are conservative in their politics. The number of wealthy individuals who supported, and continue to support, this worst of all US Presidents and, therefore, his statist policies far outnumbers those who do not support him.

Ted| 7.28.10 @ 2:51PM

And let us not forget that other billionaire sent to save us little people: George Soros.

Dan Hirsch| 7.28.10 @ 9:12AM

I'll pray for that "Midwest doctor" who dismembered an eighteen week old fetus (baby) while her own eighteen week old fetus, jumped in her own womb. She may be okay now, but someday those tears are going to return and she'll pay emotionally. It is too sad.

Maybe someday she'll wonder if her child might otherwise have become friends with the one she took apart...

I don't envy her look back on her life. 'So Doc, what's your legacy?' 'Oh, I saved hundredsof women from feeling shortchanged.'

Yeah, that'll cover it.

I'll say a prayer for her...

James Pawlak | 7.28.10 @ 9:28AM

Is retroactive abortion, for supporters of killing the unborn, the solution?

Dan Hirsch| 7.28.10 @ 11:03PM

NO!

KyMouse| 7.29.10 @ 2:55PM

No. The solution is for those "supporters" to repent and devote themselves to helping mothers and their babies (unborn and born).

A good example is Bernard Nathanson, M.D., who co-founded NARAL in 1969, and was director of New York City's Center for Reproductive and Sexual Health (at the time, the world's largest abortion mill). He has admitted to aborting more than 60,000 babies.

In the 1970s, he turned against abortion and became a leading pro-life advocate. His work has included writing his autobiography, "The Hand of God: A Journey from Death to Life by the Abortion Doctor Who Changed His Mind" (1996, Regnery Publishing).

tom| 7.28.10 @ 9:54AM

Also the founder of Planed Parenthood is an avoud racist.One out of every two pregnancies in the black community are TERMINATED. Obummer supports this?!?!?

jawin| 7.28.10 @ 2:25PM

With a "burden in his heart" and smile on his face!

Mimi| 7.28.10 @ 10:03AM

It is TIME for all of the Black Community to listen to leaders who say: "STOP The SELF INFLICTED GENOCIDE"!! " The killing from ABORTION, DRIVE-BYS, DRUG USE, & AIDS!" The ETOP'S [ elective termination of pregnancy] ,for all must stop!! Something wrong was made o.k. by law......in 1973 . We know now what folly that was and the women was more burdened with the aftermath of abortion than the raising of a child! The pro-life attitude of America is on the rise. Roe needs to be re- examined.

Mimi| 7.28.10 @ 10:24AM

That THUMP is in all our hearts and souls. I will also say a prayer for the DOCTOR. I once long ago as an R.N. was asked to help a Doctor... inject saline [salt] into a young girl 7 months pregnant. A dark sense of utter evil surrounded me. I fled the room, left the floor, left the hospital got in my car and went home. Never to return to that place! I got a call a few days later from the Directer of nursing wanting me to come back but I could never. A couple of years after that I read a piece in the paper that the Doctor got arrested...he slipped up in the wrong place . He went to jail. Yeh that THUMP!

Mimi| 7.28.10 @ 11:00AM

Just to be clear... on hire, at interview for the job I told them I was Pro-Life and could not participate in abortion. I left at 8 pm on the 3-11 shift the evening Nurse in charge had to do the assisting and was furious at me for my refusal " to do my duty". I had no other choice! That ...Thump1

michigander_sandusky| 7.28.10 @ 10:11AM

"Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people." (Prov. 14:34) Currently our "national sins" are many. But the worst of them is the shedding of oceans of innocent blood so women in this country are not "shortchanged." God destroyed Judah and sent her into captivity for her many sins; with the shedding of innocent blood at the top of the list (2 Kings 24:1-4). In fact the shedding of innocent blood in Judah reached a point where "the Lord would not pardon." (1 Kings 24:4) Perhaps we have reached that point here in the U.S. But one thing is sure: Our nation has no hope of ever being blessed with true peace and prosperity while this heinous and godless practice is protected and promoted by our government.

Peter Kent| 7.28.10 @ 10:24AM

Such an evocative article. It is so true that the Natural Law that governs us all stirs within the breast a revulsion to this practice. That it is pushed by the billionaire elitists upon the weakest and most vulnerable not only here, but worldwide, speaks volumes.

It has been ever thus with the eugenicists: they choose to murder in utero those they feel are not worthy to participate in society. Margaret Sanger is truly an ironic heroine of the Left.

petekent01 (on twitter)

Citizen Jerry| 7.28.10 @ 10:24AM

The future belongs to those who show up for it. If we keep sacrificing our unborn to Moloch, we'll have no future.
At the other end of our fair state, people herald Warren Buffett, this "Oracle of Omaha," as some sort of demigod. But I remember he was one of the major players in getting RU-487 legalized in America -- giving the term "blood money" a whole new meaning.
I can only presume that Warren's exit interview with the Almighty is going to be a real doozy.

Otis my man!| 7.28.10 @ 10:50AM

Don't forget, Liberals abort their offspring or don't have children. Hence over time, fewer Liberal pro-choicers and more pro-lifers (the young pro-lifers are abortion survivors).

It is only a matter of time before Liberals extinguish themselves.

Stephanie| 7.28.10 @ 12:43PM

Ahhhh. A dream come true.

Seek| 7.28.10 @ 12:52PM

Wishful thinking, old sport. If liberals haven't been having babies for the last few decades, how did Obama manage to be elected? How come our Congress is liberal?

Lots of liberals, in fact, are having and wanting babies -- and not just the heterosexual ones. You're not noticing the reality.

John II| 7.28.10 @ 2:06PM

"If liberals haven't been having babies for the last few decades, how did Obama manage to be elected?"

By lying a lot and by appealing to a distracted, generally apolitical electorate with the help of Republican failures and the corrupt media. Professor Obama's rapidly plummeting poll numbers (a 30-point drop just in the past year, and still declining) suggest that he would NOT have been elected under the scrutiny of a hypothetically honest media. We know from several polls over the years that his chic-socialist New Age posture has never appealed to more than about 20 percent of the adult (so to speak) population.

The contention isn't that liberals are not having babies. The observation is that the birthrate among that class of Americans is way below the demographic replacement level of three children per family.

Which happens to fit my anecdotal acquaintance with such people in my own workplace--academia, where the small minority of conservatives generally keep their thoughts to themselves and their families.

In that workplace, some 15 to 20 percent are homosexuals of the in-your-face swinging-single variety. The rest are either permanently single or serially married or casually shacked up or sure-enough married-with-kids (not quite half). But not one chic-leftie couple with kids has more than two children. The only couples with more than two aren't liberals, much less activist ideologues of the Obamanation stripe.

This may help explain, by the way, why lefties in education are such shameless and frantic proselytizers in their texts and among their students. But most people are most influenced by their families and personal lives--and therefore more or less passively resistant to the left's relentless propaganda in the schools and the larger culture. Which is why it's plausible to suppose that the left is breeding itself out of existence, or at least into an ever-diminishing cadre of cranks.

South Texan| 7.28.10 @ 2:32PM

You seem to forget. Most Hispanics and Blacks vote democrat and tend to have more children than whites. They might not consider themselves liberal but they vote that way.

John II| 7.28.10 @ 3:57PM

On the other hand, most Hispanics and blacks tend to be social conservatives, an identity which touches on issues and convictions deeper than the pocketbook stuff--which in turn helps explain the generally rightward drift of subsequent generations in the manner of, say, Catholic voters. I'm old enough to remember when Catholics voted as a Democratic bloc--more than 75 percent Demo in general elections, but that started changing as (1) the Catholics got more integrated into the bread-and-butter mainstream and (2) the Democrats got more creepy and irresponsible.

We shall see what we shall see--or at any rate, my grandkids will.

Frank| 7.31.10 @ 9:07PM

As a Catholic, I can assure you that most practicing Catholics cannot stomach King Barry and his Jesters. His advocacy for baby-killing is assurance most Catholics will NOT support his campaign in 2012.

IXLR8| 7.28.10 @ 11:07AM

From Mother Teresa: "But I feel that the greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion, because it is a war against the child, a direct killing of the innocent child, murder by the mother herself. And if we accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another? How do we persuade a woman not to have an abortion? As always, we must persuade her with love and we remind ourselves that love means to be willing to give until it hurts. Jesus gave even His life to love us. So, the mother who is thinking of abortion, should be helped to love, that is, to give until it hurts her plans, or her free time, to respect the life of her child. The father of that child, whoever he is, must also give until it hurts.
By abortion, the mother does not learn to love, but kills even her own child to solve her problems. And, by abortion, that father is told that he does not have to take any responsibility at all for the child he has brought into the world. The father is likely to put other women into the same trouble. So abortion just leads to more abortion. Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love, but to use any violence to get what they want. This is why the greatest destroyer of love and peace is abortion. "

Purple Lips| 7.28.10 @ 11:33AM

People like Buffet benefitted from the lagress of parents who had children (lots of them) only to end up hating the very people who enriched him. For you must have people to create wealth -lots of them. There has never been a wealthy society made up priimairily of geriatrics. Buffet proves the point that fabulously wealthy capitalists are not very wise -some are quite insane.

Something happens to a person's soul when they accumulate massive amounts of wealth. Is it greed, or perhaps is it bitterness brought on by self loathing? This was rarely the case with the older order aristocrats. For they usually possessed great culture, learning, tradition, and moral clarity to compliment thier inherited wealth. The early proponents of Democracy and Market Capitalism promised that the free would possess all of the virtues. Freed from religious constraints, not to mention religious zeal, the free sober businessman would use "enlightened self interests" to ensure the political and economic order of things. How quaint their thinking now seems.

Show me a wealthy capitalist today (Buffet, Gates, Jobs, Peter Lewis, Robert Rubin, Hank Paulson, Immelt, Soros, the Heinz family, etc...), and I will show you a neo-Marxist -or worse a Liberal Fascist). The owner of a family run muffler shop lives in a completely different world than hedge fund manager or Fortune 500 CEO. The former still believes in God and the old order; the latter worships something entirely different.

canuckistani| 7.28.10 @ 11:44AM

Is this the same blog that supports cutting social programs across the board and limiting sex education and promoting abstinence that has never worked?

If we are true conservatives and believe in the free market, women contemplating abortion should be given the choice: have the child, give it up for adoption and then be paid $100,000 cash to be spayed. Immediate end to systematic welfare fraud, a slow methodical dissolution of welfare track lineages and a cleansing of loose women from our system.
Start there, and see how far your belly for righteousness goes.

Doctor Right| 7.28.10 @ 11:58AM

Um...Excuse me, but...

Abstinence ALWAYS works. It is 100% perfectly effective - every single time.

Only 1 woman in history has become pregnant without the benefit of sexual intercourse.

dcm| 7.28.10 @ 12:10PM

incorrect. Artificial insemination is well documented.

Stephanie| 7.28.10 @ 12:48PM

Oh shit. Give me a break.

John II| 7.28.10 @ 12:14PM

The term you're looking for, Canuckie, is "morally vacuous libertarian," not "true conservative."

I think you may have missed the point of the article. On the other hand, no one who knows how to count can serious doubt that the obsessively contraceptive western Lefties are gradually breeding themselves out of existence along with the underclasses they're trying to snuff.

Yet again I say: Demographics ain't everything, but it's way ahead of whatever is least important in politics.

jawin| 7.28.10 @ 2:35PM

canuckistani, you write, "If we are ture conservatives....". I just don't think you are a true conservative. Your idea is much more likely to be taken up by Margaret Sanger than by Ronald Reagan.

Doctor Right| 7.28.10 @ 12:02PM

Does anyone's heart bleed for Dr. George Tiller?

Mine does NOT.

He bragged about performing at least 60,000 abortions, all in the defense of "reproductive rights", of course.

John II| 7.28.10 @ 12:19PM

No, but my heart doesn't bleed for his murderer either. Myself, I never could abide the self-obsessed John Brown syndrome.

Claypoole| 7.28.10 @ 6:35PM

Does anyone remember Scott Peterson? He was convicted a few years ago of first degree murder for killing his wife, Lacey, and their unborn son, a conviction for double murder. If an abortionist had murdered his son a day--or even a few hours--before Peterson did, would that abortionist be found guilty of murder?

Any lawyers out there?

John II| 7.28.10 @ 9:49PM

What it boils down to is that the state, having long set the precedent of prosecuting specifically as murder the deliberate killing of an unborn child, has given doctors a license to kill--analogous, one might add, to the license dentists have always had to steal.

arlo_price| 7.29.10 @ 12:51AM

Possibly the perfect argument to make the case that "2 wrongs can make a right"

dw| 7.28.10 @ 1:03PM

That feminist mid western doctor kills one baby at 18 weeks while her own is kicking inside her.
Truely the depths of behavior to which humans can rationalize themselves to sink to is continually frightening.
Wrong is wrong no matter how many ways the left tries to justify it. What in reality is the differance between the killing feilds of Cambodia and the killing feilds of the abortionist clinics.

jawin| 7.28.10 @ 2:36PM

Age...and the ability to run away, hide, or for self-defense.

dw| 7.28.10 @ 5:51PM

Exactly

Dasboot| 7.30.10 @ 4:15PM

Funny you bring up the Killilng Fields. Liberals in this country were supporters of Pol Pot, who went to school with liberals in Paris-just as they support abortion. Bill Clinton, who vetoed the ban on partial birth abortion also did nothing to stop the Rwandan Genocide of 1994 that left 1 million dead in 90 days.

Frank| 7.31.10 @ 9:10PM

Take note, also, of what your references. Those genocides involved non-white people. Also note that Bill Clinton decided we needed to go and stop the fighting between white Muslims and those evil Serbs. Heaven forbid anybody should hurt them; now, if they were in Darfur, all bets would have been off.

Nancy in NC| 7.28.10 @ 1:59PM

It is beyond my understanding that with all the available type of birth control, we have more abortions than ever, so apparently, many use it as a form of birth control. We have become a souless society, with the morals and ethics of savages. Is it any wonder that our country is literally going down the tubes?

Hankmeister| 7.28.10 @ 2:18PM

Buffet with his arrogant, smirky face can burn in Hell. His billions can't buy his way out of that fate and his own arrogance blinds himself to his own pan-eugenics practice. Good riddance when billionaire abortionists finally receive the very fate to which they've consigned the most innocent of humanity. Kind of ironic. I'm just waiting for a movement to gain some traction that espouses retroactive abortions for certain militant pro-abortion liberals. Poetic justice in the grand scheme of things, I'd say.

Tony in CEntral PA| 7.28.10 @ 3:15PM

My Dad went on a GI bus tour of Buchenwald in the late 40's. After witnessing the industrial - scale horrors of the camp, the GI's sat in stony silence on the way back. One of the GI's near the front eventually questioned the German national conducting the tour ; " How did you let this happen ? " The reply, " We didn't know ". It was a ridiculous lie , of course, that such an operation belching the smoke of the burning remains of thousands of human beings could go undetected by a nearby town. Or that railway cars laden with people would regularly arrive and depart empty. The bus had to be stopped to quell the riot.

As it was with Germany, so will it be with our nation. If our civilization is to survive, our descendants will ask with regard to our practice and promulgation of aborting children " How did you let this happen ? ". Our President famously answered during the 2008 Presidential debate with a joke that it was " above his pay grade " to decide the answer to the apparent trick question of " When does human life begin ". In the end, we will not be able to say, " We didn't know ", only, " We didn't care ".

michigander_sandusky| 7.28.10 @ 4:39PM

Thanks to Tony for reminding me of the "pay grade" fiasco. Here is an article I wrote about for my church bulletin:

"During the “Saddleback” presidential debate Barack Obama was asked several questions about abortion. One question was: “When does a fetus become a human being?” In classic political doublespeak Mr. Obama said that such a determination “is above my pay grade.” Keep in mind Mr. Obama favors no restrictions whatsoever on abortion and even favors partial-birth abortion. Such a position is incongruent with his “pay grade” argument and his claim to have good judgment. Think about it. If one is not sure when a fetus becomes a human being wouldn’t good judgment oppose every form of abortion? After all, if you don’t know when it becomes human, how do you know you’re not murdering it if you allow abortion at any point in its development? The only safe position if you’re not sure is to oppose all abortions. To make the “pay grade” argument on one hand and approve all abortions on the other is intellectually dishonest and a shoddy political ploy. Plus, at some point it condones murder!"

T. Lewis| 7.28.10 @ 9:46PM

Senator Obama voted in Illinois to run a spike through the head of an aborted baby who is still breathing...he's evil to the bone, and God is not death nor blind...

John II| 7.29.10 @ 12:46PM

Excellent point, Michie. The long-standing principle of moral theology, and of moral thinking generally, is that one must take the safer course of action with a "res dubia" (doubtful issue).

When Professor Obama--who has obviously never in his life thought deeply about anything--made his crack about "pay grade," he was saying all at once that the matter of human life is a res dubia AND that he didn't give a damn.

I recall no single incident of the campaign more revelatory of the Professor's shallowness and essential nihilism. Nor any single incident more revelatory of McCain's disastrous dullness. The opening inadvertently given to McCain by the preening Professor was simply beyond McCain's wit to reply to aptly.

The only other incident in the Professor's contemptible political career that comes close to the Saddleback revelation was an unguarded comment he made regarding the nimble-witted and principled Alan Keyes: "I just want to throttle that bastard!"

In the Politics, Aristotle says that a bad man can be a good citizen but not a good leader. As with Clinton before him, we now have a bad man for President--and a half-hearted Republican opposition of lightweight pols generally clueless about such matters.

Dean from Ohio| 7.28.10 @ 3:33PM

First Things (www.firsthings.com) is a strong defender of life, and a chronicler of thought on all points of the continuum of human life for twenty years. But the Human Life Review (www.humanlifereview.com, currently under renovation) has been there longer than that. In the meantime try http://www.highbeam.com/Human+.....tions.aspx Support both of them!

Jerry C| 7.28.10 @ 4:36PM

No one is in favor of abortions. That is crazy talk. Warren Buffet is not giving $3M to promote abortions. He is a great philanthropist. He and Gates are changing the world for the better. He ain't taking his money with him and he is not leaving it for his children to found a dynasty in the American rulling class. He is giving it away in a very smart way.

jrjr| 7.28.10 @ 5:06PM

"No one is in favor of abortions." Whew! Buffet and Gates are among the elites. Gates for example has Microsoft stock worth $62 billion. For such a great "philanthropist" -- give away $60 billion -- in stock so that the recipients can become billionaires too.

Bob K.| 7.28.10 @ 4:53PM

Abortion is genetic suicide!

Paying money to encourage it's practice in another culture or race whether for economic reasons or not is despicable!

Having one as an individual choice displays a lack of self esteem and of self worth.

David Volk| 7.28.10 @ 5:05PM

Dear Mimi,

Your humanity would not let you do the evil asked of you. Congratulations, and thank you. You are an example to all of us.

YB| 7.28.10 @ 6:37PM

It seems that to the pro-choice crowd, a baby is only as valuable in proportion to how it's wanted. As technology advances, babies can live who are born earlier and earlier. What possible excuse could there be for a partial birth or late term abortion done late term? I understand that sometimes a woman may have toxemia, and the baby has to be induced or delivered by c-section pre-term, but that baby is put into an NICU(if born alive) and given a chance to live, not dismembered in utero and delivered. What valid medical reason could there be for such a procedure?

YB| 7.28.10 @ 6:40PM

Oops. Pardon my redundancy in the third sentence.

danny| 7.28.10 @ 7:04PM

nancy in north carolina----- no, it is not any wonder, but is very very sad. never thought i'd live to see days like we live in. god help us.

T. Lewis| 7.28.10 @ 9:39PM

Well hopefully, God can be bought off with Warrens money. Let's see, what would be a reasonable amount God could charge to not send Warren the baby killer to hell....You will burn my friend, but only after you face those precious gifts of God...and he will let them push the down button....

ConcernedCitizen| 7.28.10 @ 11:13PM

Abortions prevent murders, rapes, and robberies. It is licit to kill in defense of life,liberty and property. The location of abortion services near those populations which supply most of the murders, rapes, and robberies is good economics. The moral case for abortion, or at least those directed at the underclass, is easily defended. In contrast, killing babies from good middle class families is a social loss, and the state has a legitimate interest in curbing it.

Mimi| 7.29.10 @ 7:17AM

Dear Concerned Citizen ........ WHAT ??......WHAT ??? Your thinking is illogical, immoral and ..UP-SIDE down!!!

Claypoole| 7.29.10 @ 11:45AM

Dear Concerned Citizen: Who are you to determine what the lives of these aborted infants will be? What arrogance!

As the serpent said to Eve, "Ye shall be as gods."

Yosemeti Sam| 7.28.10 @ 11:17PM

" ... Did you know that Warren Buffett has given
$3 billion -- yes, three billion dollars -- to
promote abortion here in the U.S. and around
the world?...."

There you go - Buffet playing GOD with the lives in and of other human beings!

Buffet's a genuine turkey buzzard who will get a good roasting by the Almighty.

Meanwhile, MD Ms. Johnson stated"

" ... Doing second trimester abortions did not
get easier after my pregnancy," she said.
"In fact, dealing with little infant parts of
my born baby only made dealing with
dismembered fetal parts sadder."!...."

But, what the HELL - right MD Ms. Johnson?

What pathos, what empathy - what crocodile tears!

Turn in your uterus!

Stephen | 7.28.10 @ 11:29PM

And don't forget that Warren Buffet's good friend Bill Gates is also funding abortion and "vaccines" for third world countries. It's the eugenics club, you know.

Long Ben| 7.29.10 @ 12:29AM

God is Love.

Timothy O'Donnell | 7.29.10 @ 10:17PM

The NYT dropped the mask...

Your article exposes "The New Abortion Providers" NYT piece and the culture of death for what it is - inhuman. The NYT article gives ample evidence of how journalistic standards have been compromised. It is hardly surprising to find a NYT article careening portside, but the shallowness of thought and lack of balance is stunning. Lifting Terry Randall, a known crackpot, as the Pro-life figurehead and juxtaposing him with Tiller (considered by many as a killer and extremist) polarizes rather than clarifies the issues. Moral equivalency is on display; the number of abortionists killed without any reference to the millions of dead children – victims of abortion and a false choice - , the mothers who have severe spiritual, mental, and physical problems from abortion, or the violence against Pro-life supporters is a vacuous and misleading caricature of the facts and the principles involved.

Abortion is a ghastly industry that harms women, steals fatherhood, and kills children. In a recent change in strategy, exemplified in this article, the fact that the abortion industry is increasingly more explicit and direct about the aim of abortion: the killing of the child. Biology, embryology, philosophy, and theology all present strong reasonable arguments and evidence against abortion because it is a grave injustice to the children killed.

Thanks to America Spectator for covering this topic.

Deborah| 7.30.10 @ 3:04PM

I'm an old nurse, wife, mother,grandmother, great-grandmother, & I have observed a lot in my life, and have seen mothers kill their own unborn on a whim. Abortion hurts & badly changes women. Each baby could have told their own life story, or contributed to filling the"tapestry" of life. Even the "poor rich" aborted unborn baby leaves an empty space.
Listen to this old proverb; "for the sake of the nail, a shoe was lost; because the shoe was lost, the horse was lost; because the horse was lost , the rider who was a General was lost; because the General was lost, the battle was lost, because that battle was lost, the War was lost." Because we have killed over 50,000,000 unborn human beings who would be adult taxpayers now, we can never balance our American economy & pull out of the disasterous financial failure that we have now. Our greatest golden joy was our children. We have thrown life away and now we must pay. Perhaps,we should get down on our knees & ask God to forgive us our many sins. He must be getting angry with our "abominations"

Dasboot| 7.30.10 @ 3:59PM

The midwest doctor is a killer. The twinge of guilt was also felt by the Commondant of Auschwitz. It means nothing. I hope she rots in hell or her child befalls a similar fate.

Jacob| 8.2.10 @ 11:50PM

It's crazy that we can be so lost.

So satisfied with bickering about nonsense while children are murdered.

We are a country gone mad. It's only taken us 200 years to get where it took Rome 1,000.

When your powerful people are more concerned with murdering children than anything else you're morally equivalent to Nazis.

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