President Barack Obama’s Extensive Pro-Abortion Record Motivating Pro-Life Community

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President Barack Obama’s Extensive Pro-Abortion Record Motivating Pro-Life Community


by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
April 13, 2009

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Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- President Barack Obama’s position in favor of unlimited abortions and the extensive pro-abortion record he has compiled has motivated the pro-life community since the November presidential elections. The news web site Politico focuses on this renewed vigor within the pro-life community because of a pro-abortion president.

The web site noted that the pro-life group Americans United for Life experienced such a high volume of signatures on its petition against the radical Freedom of Choice Act that its computers crashed.

The Susan B. Anthony List, a pro-life women’s group, had more letters and emails sent from its web site action center during the first quarter of this year than during each of the last two years.

And Pennsylvania Sen. Bob Casey, an Obama supporter who ran for election to the Senate as a pro-life advocate, told the news web site his office has received more communications on abortion issue than any other political topic.

Casey spokesman Larry Smar said that the postcard mailing the nation’s Catholic bishops organized against FOCA produced the largest amount of mail Casey’s office received.

The uptick in pro-life activism started after Obama was elected president in April, but the laundry list of pro-abortion actions since he took the oath of office has increased the intensity of the pro-life response.

Obama began making pro-abortion appointments before January, by naming pro-abortion congressman Rahm Emanuel his chief of staff and installing former staff of pro-abortion groups -- like communications director Ellen Moran (formerly of Emily’s List) and Melody Barnes (ex-NARAL) as policy director -- in top administrative positions.

After officially taking over the White House, Obama moved immediately during his first week in office to overturn the Mexico City Policy and for taxpayers to fund groups that promote and perform abortions overseas. He paved the way for sending tens of millions of public funds to the UNFPA, the United Nations population control group that works hand-in-hand with Chinese officials who rely on forced abortions.

Obama also quickly overturned the protections President Bush put in place to prevent taxpayers from having to fund embryonic stem cell research that results in the destruction of human life and he is proposing the reversal of additional conscience protections for medical professionals and centers that don’t want to be forced to participate in abortions.

Obama’s extensive pro-abortion record has surprised even some of his allies, supporters and people with whom he is trying to build relationships, such as Rev. Frank S. Page, who Obama appointed to become a member of the president’s Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships.
“President Obama is losing favor with many who might have supported him at first but have become very disturbed with his actions on pro-life issues,” Page told Politico. “Some of us have been disturbed with the rapid pace he has moved to dismantle some of the few protections that remain for the unborn.”

Page said Obama appears to be violating his pledge to find a middle road in the abortion debate.

“The verbalization that he wishes to find common ground – we are just not seeing that,” Page said. "I am seeing an increase in activity amongst groups that it is time to make the decision makers know what we feel."


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