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Special Report
Obama’s Abortion Imperialism
Tomorrow Kenyans vote on a constitution sponsored in part by Planned Parenthood.
“We must start from the simple premise that Africa’s future is up to Africans.” With these words President Obama unfurled his Africa policy to dignitaries in Ghana in July 2009. Continuing, Obama declared that though all nations should aspire to democracy:
Each nation gives life to democracy in its own way, and in line with its own traditions.… America will not seek to impose any system of government on any other nation — the essential truth of democracy is that each nation determines its own destiny.
If Obama’s words seemed trite then, they seem ironic now. The Obama administration’s attempts to impose abortion abroad has been unethical. Its attempts to do so in Obama’s father’s homeland may also be illegal.
The Obama administration has made abortion promotion a centerpiece of its diplomatic agenda. Testifying before the House Foreign Affairs Committee in April 2009, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced, “We are now an administration that will protect the rights of women, including their rights to reproductive health care.” She added that “reproductive health includes access to abortion that I believe should be safe, legal and rare.”
The “centerpiece” of the Obama foreign policy, she continued, would be the Global Health Initiative, which commits the U.S. to spending $63 billion over six years on, among other things, abortion and other reproductive services.
In March, Clinton interfered in a Canadian controversy and threw what the Toronto Star called, “a grenade in the lap of her shell-shocked Canadian hosts” when during a news conference in Quebec she aggresively endorsed abortion as a way to promote maternal health.
But the administration’s abortion promotion has been more than rhetorical. One of Obama’s first actions in office was to rescind the Mexico City Policy, which required non-governmental organizations that receive federal funding not to perform or promote abortion abroad.
And Congress has appropriated hundreds of millions of dollars to promote “family planning and reproductive health programs worldwide.” Over the next five years, Clinton announced in January, “All governments will make access to reproductive healthcare and family planning services a basic right.”
Obama’s abortion imperialism may have its greatest impact in Kenya, where the administration has spent millions to promote ratification of a national constitution that would radically liberalize the country’s abortion laws.
Abortion is illegal in Kenya except to save the life of the mother. This reflects the views of most Kenyans, who are religious and socially conservative.
On August 4, however, Kenyans will vote yes or no on a draft constitution that includes language that would make most abortions a constitutional right.
Though it recognizes that “the life of a person begins at conception,” the constitution would legalize abortion when in the “opinion of a trained health professional there is need for emergency treatment, or the life or health of the mother is in danger, or if permitted by any other written law.”
Another article states that “Every person has the right to the highest attainable standard of health, which includes the right to health care services, including reproductive health care.”
This language has the fingerprints of western abortion rights groups all over it. The Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR) has implored Clinton to “send a message to Kenya expressing support for the Draft Constitution and opposing any amendments to eliminate abortion language…”
Administration officials have indeed sent a clear message to Kenya. After the Kenyan Parliament approved the abortion liberalizing draft constitution, the White House released a statement lauding the parliament’s decision and encouraging Kenyans to “see this important reform element through can help to turn the page to a promising new chapter of Kenyan history.”
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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.