Tuesday
16Sep2008
Abortion Survivor: 'If Obama Had His Way, I Wouldn't Be Here'
Tuesday, September 16, 2008 at 07:07AM BornAliveTruth.Org produced this ad with abortion survivor Gianna Jessen, whose mother had a saline abortion that didn’t kill her. Instead, a nurse in the Los Angeles clinic called the hospital and 7 month old Jessen was put into an incubator and now lives a full life.
Barack Obama, however, voted against the Born Alive Infants Protection Act four times as Illinois senator and Jessen’s message is, “If Barack Obama had his way, I wouldn’t here.”
Jessen’s question to Alan Colmes on Fox News was, “If Obama’s position didn’t condone infanticide, what would you call it?”
Good question.
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Why won't people listen to the obvious facts that Barack Obama supports Planned Parenthood and the most radical abortion policies in American history?
6% of America's women are black, yet they have 36% of the nations's abortions. Brack Obama supports PP that has 78% of their clinics in minority neighborhoods.
Gianna Jessen is a gift from God. Anyone who fears God needs to listen carefully to her testimony. Murderers will not inherit the Kingdom of God.
Just watched the whole interview on YouTube and the position Colmes states as Obama's is indefensible. The argument is the existing law in Illinois provided for medical care after the bothched abortion (aka birth) if there was a reasonable chance of survival. Is that the same standard we plan to apply to babies who are born who are not failed abortions? Once outside the womb, do abortion babies have less rights then non-abortion babies because of the intent of the mother? Can we at least agree that life begins at birth?
If not.. why not put off the decision to abort until after the baby is born.. maybe a week or so after on a trial basis. Things don't work out, return the post-birth fetus to the hospital to complete the abortion. Who many seconds, how many minutes, how many hours, how many days after birth before we have rights in this country?
Obama was beyond wrong on this issue. Either he had no clue what the law said or he placed such a low value on the life of a baby that he was willing to sacrifice a living, breathing infant for the "greater good" of the right to an abortion.
Quote: "Jessen’s question to Alan Colmes on Fox News was, 'If Obama’s position didn’t condone infanticide, what would you call it?' -- Good Question"
I think he answered that question -- existing law was sufficient to do what Jessen wanted.
I am not tolerant of the two choice policy (conception, abortion). But that has nothing to do with this question, which was answered. Selective hearing is no excuse. Please don't ignore the arguments of your enemies, refute them. Anything else is just lazy and borderline deceptive.
John, what does being black have to do with anything? What are you trying to say?
I saw the video about the lady in question on God Tube last week. Truly eye opening and unfortunately a sad fact in our world. You know what? I honestly believe that people just don't understand what goes on in an abortion. It wasn't until I saw photos of a destroyed fetus that I was appalled.
Because supporting genocide among the African-American community would be decried as racist if whites were behind it. But since Barack Obama is brown-skinned, he hets a pass. Not from all; blackgenocide.org is very strongly opposed to Planned Parenthood and Obama's support for them.
Follow the trend: PP 'clinics' in chicago neighborhoods; then, post abortion survivors receive no protection from Obama in the Illinois state house; then, he supports identical legislation in the US Senate - what would he do as President? What kind of Supreme Court Justices would he nominate.
Obama's abortion policies are the most radical of any senator in American history. He is wrong for America.
I think that law answered 'what to do if the mother cannot afford to raise the baby, and some how the baby survives abortion attempts' In Italy, they set up a decent program to drop-off unwanted or uncared for children at a building, something that the Catholic Church first proposed and begun in the late middle ages. It works for Italy, and they call it a success. No killing of children. People who for whatever reason cannot keep their child, instead of throwing them in a dumpster, as an infant, they now have another option. I 'm against that Law's solution that was the topic.
disagree (and I do :-)
I published, undedited, the the four pages of the debate the includes Obama's remarks on the 2001 bill on my site. He never mentions the existing law and his statements are in clear opposition of any law that would potentially define a "previable baby", as he calls a baby who has survived an abortion, as a human with rights.
You appear to be a person who analyzes data and situations and forms an opinion all on your own.. read it for yourself and skip my rant.
Keith, that sounds reasonable -- I just think that the cricket-looking guy on that show (as opposed to the ant looking guy) did answer the question.
I totally accept the idea that Obama's words and actions don't match the cricket looking guy's remark, but I thought that it was weird that it was just ignored.
John,
I appreciate your responce. While I think you have something there, I don't see any logical progression. I understand that there is a double standard with race. I hope that we get beyond that faster as opposed to slower, but I am not sure that it is not racist to impose the race card every time Obama's position on an issue comes up. I don't agree with him, but it is nt becuase I think that he is using his race to rent seek against the interest of black voters.
To prove this claim you will have to show that Obama, at least as much or if not more than other black politicians, ignores black issues because his face is mistaken for an implicit support of those issuses without checking his voting record. To do this we compate his record with other black elected politicians, an important explanitory variable is to include the racial make-up of the district they were elected from -- we would expect black politicians from black areas to vote more heavily against black issues and black politicians from white areas to vote more closely with their white counterparts.
Sorry, I just see it jumping the gun a little.