Nathan Sheets

LaShawn Barber, a black blogger who is prolife, writes today:

Barack Hussein Obama is an “articulate” infanticide-supporting liberal who doesn’t like being called a liberal.

And he’s going to be our next president.

I have no grand theories about why this is so. I just have a feeling he’ll be living in the White House come November. I feel no “racial pride” that he’s the first black major party nominee or that he’ll be the first black president of the United States, because values trump race in my world. Anyone who believes it’s OK for “doctors” to crush the heads of infants in the birth canal isn’t getting my vote. If you’re black and pro-life but feel “torn” between racial pride about his nomination and disgust for his pro-death stance, shame on you. Get your priorities straight.

Ouch. It should be noted that LaShawn is not a "pro-life only blogger". She blogs mostly about music and, when she does blog about politics, she covers a wide array of topics. Apparently some people just can't get past infanticide.

Many of the more "progressive" Evangelical Christians are supporting Obama this election season. This has been interesting because, while I was becoming more and more conservative, many of my peers were becoming more and more liberal. While I no longer hold my Christian affiliation, I still find the liberalism invading American Christianity disturbing.

But seriously...Obama? What are people thinking? Many liberal newspaper articles discussing the evangelical support for Obama--especially among "young people"--all say that abortion is an issue of lesser concern, and more and more people are concerned with feeding the poor and imposing socialism on our health care system.

It's one thing to support abortion in the first trimester. It's easy to kill a fetus who is less developed, less valuable and, of course, less visible to our eyes. But third-trimester babies? How insane do you have to be to support this on-demand?

In another friend's blog, we are having an interesting discussion on abortion. She is from the UK, and I was pleasantly surprised to find out that the major pro-abortion groups over there do not support abortion-on-demand throughout all nine months of pregnancy. I was skeptical at first, but several people reaffirmed this. Britain currently has a 24 week limit, which is still horrifying, but hell, it's a limit. And the pro-choice groups don't hysterically insist that women are dying because of it. They are happy with their limit.

But here in the US our pro-choice groups insist upon abortion availability throughout all nine months of pregnancy, for any reason, and Obama's their man. He and his wife have advocated and voted for it time and time again. If you think such a man has respect for life because he wants to force middle-class me to pay more in taxes to help feed "the poor", try reconciling the photo above, brought to us by Cranky Catholic (via Jill Stanek). If you think that feeding the poor through social programs and yet slaughtering the unborn makes us "progressive", you need a serious reality check. 

While pro-choice advocates sometimes give the pretense of wanting to "work together" with the anti-choicers to "reduce abortion rates", it becomes pretty clear right away what the real plan is. The pro-choicers have a pact amongst themselves to never, ever give an inch when it comes to advocating the killing of the unborn.

As opposed to pro-lifers, who constantly make compromises in order to save children. Perhaps it's because we have a lot more at stake (human life) than they do (the inability to have unprotected sex with strangers sans consequence), but you'll find that pro-lifers will constantly be doing things they don't really want to do in order to squeeze in any sane reason into the abortion debate, particularly with law.

While the phrase "rape and incest" elicits a strong desire in me to lash out violently (proving pro-choicers' suspicions all along!), I (and all pro-lifers) realize that the public is fixated on this stupid phrase. Like I've said before, pro-choicers (who don't believe that there are "good reasons" or "bad reasons" to get your abortion anyway) throw out this phrase as casually as "Nice shoes!" or "Merry Christmas!" People have stopped thinking about actual rape and incest victims and simply parrot some kind of objection to parental notification for abortions on 12 year-olds.

The Democrats have a huge problem. It's hard trying to look sane when you have the most extreme abortion stance possible: abortion throughout all nine months of pregnancy. Obama and Clinton both have this view. They need it too: the people who speak for pro-choicers in this country, NARAL and Planned Parenthood, hold tremendous political power in their endorsements. And if you are against the "non-existent but medically necessary" partial-birth abortions but are yet pro-choice in every other way, God help you. Emily's List, a group of paranoid old women clutching coat hangers, gives millions of dollars to female politicians who support sucking the brains out of unborn babies in the 8th month. Oops, I mean "choice".

Because of the money and endorsements that are on the line, Democrats don't have much wiggle room. This is why they all tell us either that "abortion is a sad decision, but..." or even "I'm personally against abortion, but..." Note to Democrats: no one cares! What we want to hear is "Abortion is murder, boo-ya..." And giving this to us is...well, Ron Paul.

The president can do relatively little given the current and past make ups of Congress. Even with a Republican majority, there are too many wishy-washy (aka, non-conservative) Republicans with seats. They give us parental notification and expect us to be in awe of their "respect for life". Please. What pro-life advocates want are actual laws that may stop a girl from actually getting an abortion. We can only harass abortion clinics for so long by passing bills holding them to an actual standard like not having blood smeared on the walls or washing their hands between clients. But the fun of that is quickly subsiding. Now, with more and more future pro-choicers being aborted and more and more people becoming educated about the detriment of abortion to society, change is afoot. At least some of the wishy-washy Republicans will be able to hide behind their oh-so-brave votes for parental notification when the country has a drastic change of heart about abortion. The democrats will still be sitting there, claiming that the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban was "bad for women".