Obama's Hell on Earth
from New York Post
IF President-elect Barack Obama goes through with his campaign pledge to sign into law the Freedom of Choice Act, "holy hell" is going to break loose. FOCA may be the most radical social legislation in decades. It seeks to strip every last restraint from abortion - outlawing states' requirements for waiting periods, informed consent or parental consent; preventing health and safety regulation of abortion clinics and abortionists - and even ending restrictions on partial-birth abortion.
With one stroke of the president's pen, it would nullify every one of the 330 or so federal, state and local abortion laws on the books, most of them supported by a majority of Americans. And that's just the start. The law would also compel taxpayers to fund abortions and provide abortions in military hospitals. Most provocatively of all, it would force religious hospital and health-care institutions to perform abortions in violation of their convictions.
The incoming president is all for this draconian bill. In the Senate, no one held more extreme views on abortion. Abortion-rights groups have given him a 100 percent rating for every year he has held public office.
When he began his White House run, back on July 7, 2007, he told a cheering Planned Parenthood conference, "The first thing I'd do as president is sign the Freedom of Choice Act. That's the first thing I'd do . . . On this issue I will not yield."
The Catholic Church, for one, won't stand for it. The ranking American prelate to the Holy See, James Cardinal Stafford, denounced Obama's vision as "aggressive, disruptive and apocalyptic."
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IF President-elect Barack Obama goes through with his campaign pledge to sign into law the Freedom of Choice Act, "holy hell" is going to break loose. FOCA may be the most radical social legislation in decades. It seeks to strip every last restraint from abortion - outlawing states' requirements for waiting periods, informed consent or parental consent; preventing health and safety regulation of abortion clinics and abortionists - and even ending restrictions on partial-birth abortion.
With one stroke of the president's pen, it would nullify every one of the 330 or so federal, state and local abortion laws on the books, most of them supported by a majority of Americans. And that's just the start. The law would also compel taxpayers to fund abortions and provide abortions in military hospitals. Most provocatively of all, it would force religious hospital and health-care institutions to perform abortions in violation of their convictions.
The incoming president is all for this draconian bill. In the Senate, no one held more extreme views on abortion. Abortion-rights groups have given him a 100 percent rating for every year he has held public office.
When he began his White House run, back on July 7, 2007, he told a cheering Planned Parenthood conference, "The first thing I'd do as president is sign the Freedom of Choice Act. That's the first thing I'd do . . . On this issue I will not yield."
The Catholic Church, for one, won't stand for it. The ranking American prelate to the Holy See, James Cardinal Stafford, denounced Obama's vision as "aggressive, disruptive and apocalyptic."
Read More at New York Post Here
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