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Obama's Abortion Imperialism

By Daniel Allott on 8.3.10 @ 6:09AM

Tomorrow Kenyans vote on a constitution sponsored in part by Planned Parenthood.

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Obama even appeared on the Kenyan Broadcasting Corporation to tell Kenyans that voting for the document was "a singular opportunity to put the government of Kenya on solid footing." He urged Kenyans to "take advantage of the moment."

Vice President Joe Biden was dispatched to Kenya in June to lobby for passage. He told a crowd of Kenyans that they should adopt the new constitution in order "to allow money to flow" to Kenya from other countries.

"The United States strongly supports the process of constitutional reform," Biden said. "Dare to reach for transformative change, the kind of change that might come around only once in a lifetime. If you make these changes, I promise you, new foreign private investment will come in like you've never seen."

But the money already has been flowing. American Ambassador Michael Ranneberger was quoted in May stating that the U.S. has donated $2 million for "civic education" about the proposed constitution.

The administration's efforts in Kenya piqued the curiosity of three U.S. congressmen with legal oversight jurisdiction over foreign funds. Chris Smith (NJ), Darrell Issa (CA), and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (FL) launched a probe to determine whether the Obama administration violated federal law by using taxpayer money to promote the constitution.

In May they wrote to auditors at the State Department, USAID and GAO, stating that, "The Obama administration's advocacy in support of Kenya's proposed constitution may constitute a serious violation of the Siljander Amendment," which prohibits foreign aid from being used to lobby for or against abortion.

A July report by the Office of the Inspector General of the USAID found that the administration has given grants totaling more than $23 million to more than 200 groups working to turn out the "yes" vote in the referendum.

"Under no circumstances should the U.S. government take sides," Rep. Smith said during a press conference in late July. "Yet this is precisely what the Obama administration has done."

The federal probe further found, according to Smith, that the Kenyan constitution was written partly by "U.S. funded NGOs working in concert with Planned Parenthood."

Kenyan Catholic Bishop Anthony Muheria told me in an e-mail that he has little doubt the Obama administration has been actively pushing the constitution. "The U.S. Vice President has gone on record during his last visit, that [adopting the abortion language into the Constitution] is a condition for the funds to come," Muheria wrote. "He even insinuated the difficulty those opposing the draft would face to get U.S. travel visas! This was quoted in our Kenyan media."

While polls show most Kenyans support the idea of a new constitution, most do not understand the ramifications of the abortion language, wrote Muheria, who has been active in trying to educate Kenyans about the constitution's abortion provisions.

Christian and other pro-life groups in Kenya are actively opposing the constitution's passage. Bishop Muheria continued:

We as a Church are trying to educate and explain [the abortion] language, and the reaction is always one of rejection of this type language. The whole content issue is easily reduced to propaganda and TV or Radio clichés. And unfortunately the ones who have the money are those putting forward these abortionist ideas. There is a lot of funding support for this group.

Bishop Muheria remains optimistic despite polls showing that the constitution is likely to pass. "My hope and prayer is that [Kenyans] reject the proposed constitution and set out to build another more humane [constitution] in the primary issues of human rights and dignity," he wrote.

Obama concluded his Ghana speech last year by re-stating his hope for Africa. "As I said earlier," he told the crowd, "Africa's future is up to Africans. The people of Africa are ready to claim that future."

With its aggressive efforts to promote abortion in Kenya, the Obama administration has made it clear that the only future it will accept is a future with fewer Africans.

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About the Author

Daniel Allott is senior writer at American Values, a Washington, D.C. area public policy organization.

Letter to the Editor View all comments (37) | Leave a comment

Stephanie| 8.3.10 @ 6:48AM

There is obama's self-loathing and hatred for his father coming through. We wouldn't want to spread freedom anywhere, but we'll spread the killling of the innocent under the guise of "reproductive health". What a travesty.
Democrats of the culture of death.

Alan Brooks| 8.3.10 @ 9:41AM

What do you know about being a black man?

Mimi| 8.3.10 @ 10:33AM

I know THIS: You're KILLING you own!!!! Check the facts and numbers.

KyMouse| 8.3.10 @ 2:05PM

You're so right, Mimi: Black women represent only about 14 % of U.S. women of child-bearing age, but they account for over 32 % of all abortions. More than 14 million black babies have been killed by abortion since 1973.

Almost half of all black pregnancies end with the baby's death by abortion, as opposed to one in six white pregnancies. Abortion means the loss of black artists, teachers, athletes, leaders, scientists, etc.

No population group in America has been as devastated by abortion as the black community. In fact, abortion is the leading cause of death among black Americans.

For more information, visit www.blackgenocide.org.

Clinton nee Publius| 8.3.10 @ 3:49PM

Jesus, that's terrible. Boy did Black America make a mistake in backing "progressive policies". After 45 years, all they have to show for their support of the Democratic Party is planned genocide that happens in the privacy of a doctor's office. The Nazis really screwed the pooch on that one. They could have murdered zillions by simply hiding behind medical necessity and doing it quietly with the support of the groups being screwed. Wow, that's a shocker.

bababa's mom| 8.3.10 @ 6:14PM

Thanks for the statistics. This is really really sad. I agree that the black community like the white community has been dubed by BO. Anyone who believes government can solve their problems has not been paying attention.

Mark| 8.3.10 @ 11:47AM

I missed the section where Stephanie commented about Obama being a black man. You have an uncanny ability to make very strange, paranoid inferences.

UpChuck.Liberals| 8.3.10 @ 10:48PM

Personally I don't give a rats A$$ what his genetics are. I do care if he and his ilk think that they know best as to who should live and who should die. That's God's decision to make not ours.

arlo price| 8.3.10 @ 3:27PM

The obamagedon PIMP thugocracy chugs along.....

A B asks: "What do you know about being a black man? "

Well AB, if your referring to B O, then either your ignorant of the facts or it is your intention to perpetuate a lie.

B O is half white!!!

bababa's mom| 8.3.10 @ 6:09PM

I am unclear what your statement has to do with this issue -- most people have issues at one time or another with their parents, but that does not give us the right to hurt other people. We all yes all have been unfairly treated at one time or another. Stop playing the victim. You also have no idea what it is like to be a white constantly under attack by our leaders and the black community. Does that give us a right to hurt somebody. No. So stop and become part of the solution. We are all human beings created by and in the image of God. Lets start treating each other as such. Blessings

Don L| 8.3.10 @ 7:41AM

Does this men that he'll be honored again at Notre Dame?

catholicmom| 8.3.10 @ 8:07AM

Yeah...thanks Notre Dame!

Louis Jenkins| 8.3.10 @ 8:16AM

Too bad they couldn't have voted on the measure before Obama was born.

The Bishop| 8.3.10 @ 8:17AM

Although not a Catholic but as one who has lived in South Bend for the last 40 years, I share with my many faithful Catholic friends the shame of what Notre Dame did in honoring this atrocity. I can't wait for the post-Obama presidency.

arlo price| 8.3.10 @ 8:22AM

Quotes from one of the wisest of women:

"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?"

"Any country that accepts abortion, is not teaching its people to love, but to use any violence to get what it wants."

The obamagedon PIMP thugocracy chugs along.....

John Stafford, J.D.| 8.6.10 @ 1:09PM

Arlo is exactly right. So sadly. "No" one today ever talks about judgment and forseeable consequences. God Himself has directly destroyed, or used human actors, such as "the King of Asyria", to chastise even His own chosen people, and to destroy every nation and peoples who mass-murdered their own children. The US, Red China, and the still-Communist Soviet Union are now the world's leading infanticiists. All WILL be judged, and harshly. "Thus saith the Lord".

michigander_sandusky| 8.3.10 @ 8:44AM

Above My Pay Grade

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 must condone murder!

John II| 8.3.10 @ 12:51PM

Excellent point, Michie. And worth a reprint of my last reply to you. Imprimis:

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.

Not to mention Associate Professor Biden, the contemporary Democrats' idea of a Catholic, for which we can thank in part the fecklessness of most contemporary American Catholic bishops.

blackknights1802| 8.3.10 @ 5:38PM

Anyone who buys a pack of condoms knows when life begins.

ASD| 8.3.10 @ 9:24PM

TOUCHE!!!

blackknights1802| 8.4.10 @ 7:44AM

Not TOUCHE!!! Just common sense.

RacerJim| 8.4.10 @ 10:49AM

Obviously they don't teach common sense at elitist liberal ivy league colleges like Columbia and Harvard.

John Stafford, J.D.| 8.6.10 @ 1:33PM

A superb indictment of the Abominable Obama, who is, in fact, a by-three-atheists-raised "abomination before the Lord". He was the sole vote in the US Senate and the only Floor speaker, AGAINST the Federal version of the "child born alive" act, which he fought SO hard to kill in the Illinois Senate as Chairman of the Committe of jurisdiction. He would KILL a baby who survived his or her abortion by the 1st degree murderer, and hired killer, so-called "doctor". He is not only half-white [remember that Bill Clinton was, allegedly, "our 1st black President"], but is a member of the black "Talented Tenth" folks who follow the Communists and Marxist and eugenicist false assertions of the black communist and "black liberation" socialist W.E.B. DuBois, and many are from Howard U. [which was founded by primarily white folks, as was the NAACP, of which many were Jewish, FOR their black friends]. Obama, also during the 2008 campaign, also stated that he WANTED his 2 daughters TO get an abortion, if they "wanted" one---or more than one. A TOTAL dereliction of parental duty. As is also true in his addiction to tobacco, with which he has poisoned his daughters for all of their young lives, as well as his wife. He has repeatedly LIED to his wife and to the voting public that he HAD quit---or "now would" after he did not. JUST like Clinton and Carter, Obama is a pathological liar, and deadly. NONE of those 3 are Christians, despite their false assertions to gain votes and positions of power.

WhiteBikerTrash| 8.3.10 @ 10:19AM

How ironic, Margret Sanger, a eugenicist, racist, and founder of Planned Parenthood. Should be dancing in her grave! A half white man pretending to be Black, has by claiming that he, in doing nothing, has introduced her destruction of the black race she hated, to it's very home! How could anyone be any prouder?

Mimi| 8.3.10 @ 10:48AM

Here we go again.. another OUTRAGE !! Every thing he does ends up turning to crap! My take: Providence and Karma.......Wait to see the back-slap he gets on this one! I bet it will be on the LIST of impeachable offenses, when the time comes. LIFE IS PRECIOUS....ALL LIFE always was and forever will be.

Tim| 8.3.10 @ 12:15PM

Obama should be thankful that some past U.S. President didn't push Abortion for kenya at the time he was about to be born.

He was allowed to be born and become a US President because his mother didn't Abort him!

There is no other way to sugar coat this.

Arnold| 8.3.10 @ 12:31PM

"We must start from the simple premise that Africa's future is up to Africans."

Apparently so. Get this goddamn non-citizen Muslim ape out of office.

David| 8.3.10 @ 2:30PM

The most effective anti-abortion ad ever, and an excellent campaign ad to boot, was the one aired during the 2008 campaign.

It talked about a single mom in a lower income household whose father had left her with a minority son, etc., etc., then at the end it said Barack Obama would not be here if his mother had decided to abort him.

I am trying to avoid the thought that maybe it would have been good for America if she had.

Mimi| 8.3.10 @ 2:56PM

David...NO! The President was born before Abortion was made legal. He should look in the mirror and SMILE...his mother was Pro-life!!!

Mimi| 8.3.10 @ 3:06PM

I am praying the good people of Kenya will choose life over Qbama's tainted MONEY. I am ashamed of this administration for this WICKED plan... and in the Name of the GOOD U.S.A....How can they get away with this kind of foriegn policy.....Hillary's name is all over this!!!

UpChuck.Liberals| 8.3.10 @ 10:53PM

It's NOT BlowBummers money, it's OURS and I want to keep it thank you very much.

John Stafford, J.D.| 8.6.10 @ 1:48PM

Good comment! Not only the name of Hillary, a pro-abortion and pro-infanticide and pro-eugenics lesbian perverted adulterer [is that why Bill has committed adultery with an alleged 300 women, and is STILL doing so, accorting to published reports?], but all the pro-abortion, pro-eugenics, pro-"one world" and "one[pagan] god" "NGO's" which subvert our democratic Constitutional republic, and cause mass murder and destruction of whole nations, even ours. They must be stopped.

DDN| 8.3.10 @ 2:57PM

Often, I have to pinch myself to realize that this is not a bad nightmare. How can so many people - a nation - a nation that calls itself the greatest nation on the face of the earth - come to the UNBELIEVABLE conclusion that premeditated MURDER of the most innocent of humans is a noble thing??? Why??? Now, this great nation wants to export this culture of death throughout the world? How can a man running for president make such a shallow comment that when life begins is above his paygrade (witty?) and not be called on the carpet for it? Seems America got just what it asked for - a man who could care less about the life of a child or the citizens of Arizona - or any other American. However, he loves the violent and suicidal culture/religion of islam.

blackknights1802| 8.3.10 @ 5:43PM

Excellent point DDN.

Bababa's mom| 8.3.10 @ 6:04PM

Abortion will one day be known as the greatest maybe greater human rights violation since slavery. I cannot understand how people can sit by and tolerate this placing of one innocent person's rights ahead of another. This is not a right to healthcare issue -- this is not a women's issue. This is the biggest human rights issue of our time.

Kenneth E. MacAlister Jr.| 8.3.10 @ 10:28PM

Abortion on demand may be legal in this & many other countries, but it doesn't change one very important point. It's still illegal where GOD, our Creator is concerned & this crime against humanity & GOD's creation will have a very steep price when The Almighty hands down His verdict. I am not GOD & He doesn't need me to speak for Him, but it STILL says in GOD's Ten Commandments "Thou Shalt Not Kill". What is so difficult to understand in that command from GOD? It DOES NOT say "Thou Shalt Not Kill, Unless The Pregnancy Was Unplanned". Imagine being a vocal, militant, unrepentant abortionist being brought face to face with aborted children on Judgement Day. It will not be a pretty sight & I pity & pray for those involved in legalized abortion who do not recognize or repent of the evil known as abortion on demand. Life is a gift from Almighty GOD & is His & only His to give & take away. Murder is murder & I don't believe GOD will be willing to split hairs over whether or not abortion is a "woman's choice". It is NOT a woman's choice. GOD created us all which means all of us, our souls & bodies belong to Him. A woman's body belongs to The Almighty GOD who created her as does the child growing inside it. When mortal men cast GOD aside & assume the deciding of whether someone has the right to live or die they are on a collision course with The Almighty. It is still not too late to change course. GOD offers total forgiveness through faith in His one & only son Jesus Christ & what He did for us all on Calvary on the cross. All one has to do is accept GOD's great gift. I pray all involved in abortion on demand will stop the killing & get to know Jesus Christ. It's never too late.

Virginia Gibson| 9.6.10 @ 7:52PM

There are hundreds of thousands of children in Africa who suffer daily from malnutrition and war. Abortion may not be the answer, but I can understand not wanting to raise a child in that
environment, and having no other option.