Ready on Day One
Remember when Sen. Hillary Clinton regularly used that line for her campaign? Something you may not know is a promise Sen. Barack Obama has made about his first order of business as president.
He made the promise to a choice crowd.
…almost one year has passed since Obama made his vows to the Planned Parenthood Action Fund that abortion would be the first priority of his administration.“The first thing I’d do as president is sign the Freedom of Choice Act,†Obama said in his July speech to abortion advocates worried about the increase of pro-life legislation at the state level.
The Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA) is legislation Obama has co-sponsored along with 18 other senators that would annihilate every single state law limiting or regulating abortion, including the federal ban on partial birth abortion.
The 2007 version of FOCA proposed: “It is the policy of the United States that every woman has the fundamental right to choose to bear a child, to terminate a pregnancy prior to fetal viability, or to terminate a pregnancy after fetal viability when necessary to protect the life or health of the woman.â€
And we all know how elastic that definition has become over the past three decades.
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“Fundamental right” is the key phrase to the “pro-choice” position. Yet, we need to ask them – exactly what is a right? They tend to pair “right” and “freedom,” yet if we define “rights” as individual freedom to do whatever we want, our country would quickly slide into anarchy. FOCA is a dangerous bill. I hope Catholics have the courage to stand against it this election cycle. Thanks Sheila for keeping us updated on these important issues!