Scarcely three days in office and President Obama (who did what’s right in ordering the closing of Gitmo’s prison and rejecting torture) has now done what’s wrong. If it’s wrong to torture prisoners it’s more wrong to kill babies.
President Barack Obama on Friday will lift restrictions on U.S. government funding for groups that provide abortion services or counseling abroad, reversing a policy of his Republican predecessor George W. Bush, an administration official said.
Having just finished doing my taxes for 2008 it doesn’t warm my heart one little bit to know that some of the money I have to send in will be used to murder the unborn. Life is life- whether it’s a pre-born, new-born, teen, adult, or prisoner of war. It is immoral to stand against torture and for murder.
“When we wake up every morning to a deepening financial crisis, it is an insult to the American people to bail out the abortion industry,” said Charmaine Yoest, president of Americans United for Life. “Planned Parenthood is a billion dollar company and they do not need additional resources to burden the American taxpayer,” she added.
I have to say- she’s right.
Posted by Marvin Lance Wiser on 01/23/2009 at 15:44
Or is it saving more lives?
The policy was initially put into effect by Regan after visiting Mexico City in ‘84, and has flip-flopped with each entering president of opposing party since. More than 5,000 women die (this is a conservative number) and another approx. 80,000 are hospitalized a year in Latin America alone due to illegal abortions. I do not necessarily agree with abortion, but I take the stance of combating it with education: teaching abstinence and methods of contraception, not by stripping options from distraught women based upon my moral conscious.
Mexico City just recently legalized abortion and there has been no real influx in the number of ‘would be’ abortions. It has made the procedure available to those that are determined to do it anyway. The only difference is that the women receiving the procedure are not dieing alone in some alley afterward. The picture was very similar in the States before Roe vs. Wade.
I do agree with abortion being made legal where it is not. Because abortions will be carried out regardless of whether it is legislated. In some societies women are left with only one choice: it lives or me.
I believe Obama’s executive order will do justice to and serve greater humanity.
Posted by Greg DeLassus on 01/23/2009 at 17:12
Well said.
Posted by Looney on 01/23/2009 at 18:01
The article here mentioned something about spending hundreds of millions on contraceptives – giving a new meaning to the concept of “economic stimulus”.
Posted by Looney on 01/23/2009 at 22:03
“More than 5,000 women die (this is a conservative number) and another approx. 80,000 are hospitalized a year in Latin America alone due to illegal abortions.”
Marvin, any idea where those statistics come from? Is it a reputable source? Or some abortion promotion / advocacy group?
Posted by Greg DeLassus on 01/24/2009 at 10:03
abortions will be carried out regardless of whether it is legislated.
Rapes will be committed regardless of whether they are legal or not. Homes will be burgled whether such is legal or not. To say that babies will be aborted whether the act is legal or no is no argument at all. If we really bought into the premises underlying this argument we would have no laws at all.
Posted by Marvin Lance Wiser on 01/24/2009 at 12:14
Looney,
I cited from a source in Mexico, consequently, it’s in Spanish. However, I’ll share a link with you that contains much of the same information as above and more:
http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/fb_IAW.html
Posted by Jeremiah on 01/24/2009 at 15:23
So in short, the grotesque actions of individuals require us to support the grotesque actions of NGOs?
Posted by Joe on 01/24/2009 at 18:21
Killing human beings is a crime at any point in our lives and we should therefore be protected from both abortion crime and murder crime throughout our lifespans.
If you prohibit criminal abortion you will reduce it although not eliminate it, just as with any other crime. In America, we have 15,000 illegal criminal murders and 200,000 illegal criminal rapes (FBI estimate). Should we legalize these crimes just because “they will be done anyway”?
Very few mothers died after freely choosing to kill their unborn children. It was about 200-250 in the 1960’s. The abortionists lied and said the number was 10,000 a year, which was preposterous. When the abortionists make claims about the number of deaths in other countries due to illegal abortion crime, the numbers they come up with cannot be trusted because the criminal abortionist movement has a well-earned reputation for intellectual dishonesty going back more than forty years.
The point is killing human beings at any point in our lives is a crime and we must be protected from this violence at all stages of our lives.
Posted by Looney on 01/25/2009 at 17:15
Marvin, I think you still need to be wary of these statistics, because it is a very complex topic and the abortion proponents are very slippery. Maternal mortality rates in the third world are already high. Bring an illegal abortionist into the act and we are guaranteed to have at least one death. Once abortion becomes legal, the same abortionist will do the same procedure, but if the mother and baby both die, it will be counted differently for statistics purposes. We (especially the US) also count the data differently based on whether the abortionist was employed by the state or the private sector, since medical malpractice is only theoretically possible for a doctor in the private sector.
Then we need to count the emotional / spiritual death of the mother too, but that isn’t one of the statistics kept by the WHO.