WHY PRO-LIFE GROUPS LOVE OBAMA
By Dr. Patrick Jonston
December 26, 2008
NewsWithViews.com
Pro-life
organizations around the nation are in a full sprint fund-raising campaign
to get signed petitions to Washington, D.C., to try and sabotage Obama’s
announced plan to sign the Freedom of Choice Act. The Freedom of Choice
Act (FOCA), in essence, will overrule all of the restrictions that states
have passed limiting abortions. It would be the most pro-abortion piece
of legislation that Congress has ever passed, finally putting to rest
the argument that legal abortion is a Supreme Court usurpation of Constitutional
limitations. With FOCA, Congress would finally transcend the absurdity
of the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision to make abortion a
fundamental right – like freedom of speech.
With every Email or fear-filled mass mailer, you can just sense the
hand-wringing and brow-sweating. “FOCA Would Wipe Away Every Restriction
on Abortion Nationwide,” reads one website, warning of the eradication
of state pro-life legislation such as “Bans on Partial Birth Abortion
- Requirements that women be given information about the risks of getting
an abortion - Only licensed physicians can perform abortions - Parents
must be informed and give consent to their minor daughter's abortion…
Sign this petition and send a much needed donation right away!”
(quoted from the website FightFOCA.com.) The more pro-life Americans
are outraged about FOCA, the more money that pro-life groups can make.
They stand to be more financially successful under the Democrats than
they do under the Republicans!
Sincere pro-lifers look with admiration upon a President and a Party
who takes their commitment about abortion seriously. Unfortunately,
the only President and Party with serious devotion to the abortion issue
are the Democrats who want abortion-on-demand. The Republicans had their
six years with a “pro-life” President and a Republican majority
in the House and Senate, and how many lives have been saved as a result?
How many millions of dollars have we expended to pass our Unborn Victims
of Violence Act, our Fetal Pain Awareness Act, and our Partial Birth
Abortion Act, all the while never delivering justice? The Holocaust
continues unabated by our political victories, our pro-life speeches,
our calls to our Congressman, and our million-dollar fundraisers “for
the children”. If only the Republicans would be as enthusiastic
about doing justice for the preborn as the Democratic Party is about
killing them.
All those pro-lifers who cast their lot with Bush should bow their heads
in shame. They either knew or should have known that Bush appointed
judges that justified abortion, adamantly opposed state bans on abortion,
justified abortion in cases of rape and incest, funded abortions through
Title X of Medicaid every year, and gave more tax dollars to Planned
Parenthood, the largest abortion organization in the world, than any
previous President. Rather than repent of endorsing a political savior
that committed evil in office, momentum gave us more of the same. The
precedent for our unconditional support for the lesser of two evils
has been set, and the lesser evil has gotten more evil just as expected.
Just look at who the Republicans got this year as their candidate –
John McCain, one of the most liberal, anti-life Republican candidates
for President we have ever had! He sponsored legislation restricting
the free speech rights of pro-life organizations and he was a strong
proponent of forcing taxpayers to fund embryo-killing stem cell research.
He justified abortion in cases of rape and incest. In his 2000 Presidential
election bid he stated that he didn’t believe the Roe v. Wade
decision should be overturned. In a South Carolina debate with George
W. Bush before the 2000 election, John McCain expressly opposed the
pro-life plank of the Republican Party platform. He voted to fund government
distribution of abortifacients like the morning-after pill and progestin-only
birth control pills to unmarried adolescents, which can be given to
underage children even if their parents object. John McCain did not
support a Human Life Amendment to the United States Constitution, nor
is he supporting legislation in the U.S. Senate which would end legalized
child-killing in America. He voted to confirm pro-abortion Stephen Breyer
and pro-abortion ACLU-activist Ruth Bader Ginsburg for the Supreme Court.
He called Bush-appointee Sam Alito “too conservative”. McCain
also voted for David Satcher for Surgeon General, who supports partial-birth
abortion.
Yet the pro-life Judas Iscariots still lined up to endorse the lesser
of two evils. Even James Dobson, who once said that his conscience could
never allow him to support John McCain for office, capitulated to the
fear of Obama to come out and support McCain. The Abortion Holocaust
could not continue without the aid of America’s Christian leaders.
They have traded the lives of God’s little children for a back
row seat at the Republican table. They are like the Jewish betrayers
who shoved fellow Jews into the ovens in exchange for extra rations
from their Nazi rulers.
With Obama’s FOCA legislation likely to be passed by a Democratic
Congress, and with at least two more judges to be appointed to the Supreme
Court in the next four years, finally pro-lifers have an opportunity
to pick a fight that, if won, would actually win justice for the preborn.
All of our fights to regulate abortion have made us accomplices in the
murders that occur with our permission. Now maybe we’ll stop pretending
like we’ll get a pro-life Supreme Court in our lifetime, and we
will draw a battle line where God’s wrath would actually be abated
with our victory.
States should begin to do what they should have done in 1973: ignore
Roe v. Wade, that unconstitutional usurpation that defies the law of
God, and re-criminalize abortion in accordance with divine mandates.
This is exactly what brave pro-lifers in Colorado tried to do this year
in their attempt to amend the state constitution through a ballot initiative.
Protecting the innocent through the administration of justice is the
obligation of local civil authorities (Romans 13, Deuteronomy 19 and
21). If only we would draw a line in the sand where God’s Word
draws it, maybe God would fight for us. After all, “If God is
for us, who can be against us?” Instead, we continue to move the
line further and further to the left, until now we find the most anti-life,
God-hating Republican candidates campaigning beside us. How can God
bless our efforts when we have played by the devil’s rulebook
and trusted in the arm of the flesh for victory? How can He answer our
prayers to protect the innocent preborn children when we campaign for
candidates that will kill some innocent people by abortion (whether
they be Downs Syndrome babies or whether they were conceived through
rape or incest)? How can God give us victory when we are such hypocrites:
our best pro-life legislative victories conclude “…and then
you can kill the baby.” We aren’t offering a remedy to the
evil of abortion; we are the malady! The salt has lost its saltiness.
It’s good for nothing!
The South didn’t lose the Civil War because they were wrong to secede from a contract into which they entered voluntarily and which the federal party violated. The South lost the Civil War because God couldn’t bless their struggle for independence with their legalized slavery. They were hypocrites. The mote was in their eye, and they could not see clearly to cast the log out of their brother’s eye. As they judged, they were judged.
Finally, thanks to the Obama administration and FOCA, we can begin to turn from the Judas Iscariots that have transformed the pro-life movement into a perpetual fundraising effort, and we can begin to discover a battle that puts us on the right side of the line in the sand. Now, as always, God doesn’t need a majority; just a minority with pure hearts and with full faith in God on the right side of God’s line in the sand. Let the states begin lead the way in defying tyranny and protecting the innocent within their borders in obedience to divine law.
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