KEEPING THE FAITH - In The News
A Catholic Case Against
Barack
by Patrick J. Buchanan
August 12, 2008
In the Pennsylvania primary, Barack Obama rolled up
more than 90 percent of the African-American vote. Among Catholics, he lost
by 40 points. The cool liberal Harvard Law grad was not a good fit for the
socially conservative ethnics of Altoona, Aliquippa and Johnstown.
But if Barack had a problem with Catholics then, he has a far higher hurdle
to surmount in the fall, with those millions of Catholics who still take
their faith and moral code seriously.
For not only is Barack the most pro-abortion member of the Senate, with his
straight A+ report card from the National Abortion Rights Action League and
Planned Parenthood. He supports the late-term procedure known as
partial-birth abortion, where the baby's skull is stabbed with scissors in
the birth canal and the brains are sucked out to end its life swiftly and
ease passage of the corpse into the pan.
Partial-birth abortion, said the late Sen. Pat Moynihan, "comes as close to
infanticide as anything I have seen in our judiciary."
Yet, when Congress was voting to ban this terrible form of death for a
mature fetus, Michelle Obama was signing fundraising letters pledging that,
if elected, Barack would be "tireless" in keeping legal this "legitimate
medical procedure."
And Barack did not let the militants down. When the Supreme Court upheld the
congressional ban on this barbaric procedure, Barack denounced the court for
denying "equal rights for women."
As David Freddoso reports in his new best-seller, "The
Case Against Barack Obama," the Illinois senator goes further
than any U.S. senator has dared go in defending what John Paul II called the
"culture of death."
Thrice in the Illinois legislature, Obama helped block a bill that was
designed solely to protect the life of infants already born, and outside the
womb, who had miraculously survived the attempt to kill them during an
abortion. Thrice, Obama voted to let doctors and nurses allow these tiny
human beings die of neglect and be tossed out with the medical waste.
How can a man who purports to be a Christian justify this?
If, as its advocates contend, abortion has to remain legal to protect the
life and health, mental and physical, of the mother, how is a mother's life
or health in the least threatened by a baby no longer inside her -- but
lying on a table or in a pan fighting for life and breath?
How is it essential for the life or health of a woman that her baby, who
somehow survived the horrible ordeal of abortion, be left to die or put to
death? Yet, that is what Obama voted for, thrice, in the Illinois Senate.
When a bill almost identical to the one Barack fought in Illinois, the Born
Alive Infants Protection Act, came to the floor of the U.S. Senate in 2001,
the vote was 98 to 0 in favor. Barbara Boxer, the most pro-abortion member
of the Senate before Barack came, spoke out on its behalf:
"Of course, we believe everyone should deserve the protection of this bill.
... Who could be more vulnerable than a newborn baby? So, of course, we
agree with that. ... We join with an 'aye' vote on this. I hope it will, in
fact, be unanimous."
Obama says he opposed the Born Alive Infants Protection Act because he
feared it might imperil Roe v. Wade. But if Roe v. Wade did allow
infanticide or murder, which is what letting a tiny baby die of neglect or
killing it outright amounts to, why would he not want that court decision
reviewed and amended to outlaw infanticide?
Is the right to an abortion so sacrosanct to Obama that killing by neglect
or snuffing out of the life of tiny babies outside the womb must be
protected if necessary to preserve that right?
Obama is an abortion absolutist. "I could find no instance in his entire
career," writes Freddoso, "in which he voted for any regulation or
restriction on the practice of abortion."
In 2007, Barack pledged that, in his first act as president, he will sign
the Freedom of Choice Act, which would cancel every federal, state or local
regulation or restriction on abortion. The National Organization for Women
says it would abolish all restrictions on government funding of abortion.
What we once called God's Country would become the nation on earth most
zealously committed to an unrestricted right of abortion from conception to
birth.
Before any devout Catholic, Evangelical Christian or Orthodox Jew votes for
Obama, he or she might spend 15 minutes in Chapter 10 of Freddoso's "Case
Against Barack." For if, as Catholics believe, abortion is the
killing of an unborn child, and participation in an abortion entails
automatic excommunication, how can a good Catholic support a candidate who
will appoint justices to make Roe v. Wade eternal and eliminate all
restrictions on a practice Catholics legislators have fought for three
decades to curtail?
And which Catholic priests and prelates will it be who give invocations at
Obama rallies, even as Mother Church fights to save the lives of unborn
children whom Obama believes have no right to life and no rights at all?
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