Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Obama's Promise to Extend Abortion "Rights"

If you think Obama will not really do anything to affect abortion in this country (other than keep things as they are), here he is, in his own words, promising to take action on this issue:


"The first thing I'd do as president is sign the Freedom of Choice Act. That's the first thing that I'd do." -- Senator Barack Obama, speaking to the Planned Parenthood Action Fund, July 17, 2007




And just what is the "Freedom of Choice Act?" Otherwise known as FOCA, H.R. 1964, (read the bill here) would, in the words of Planned Parenthood: "prohibit states from enacting laws intended to deny or interfere with a woman's fundamental right to choose an abortion."

If FOCA were to pass, we would lose the ability to enact any laws (or retain current laws) pertaining to: (read more here)

-- restriction of government funding of abortion.

-- prohibition of abortions in public hospitals. (The Supreme Court ruled in 1977 that such policies do not violate Roe v. Wade.)

-- any requirements that girls and women seeking abortion receive certain information on matters such as fetal development and alternatives to abortion, and then wait a specified period before the abortion is actually performed, usually 24 or 48 hours.

-- allowing doctors, nurses, or other state-licensed professionals, and hospitals or other health-care providers, to decline to provide or pay for abortions.


--parental or adult notification of a minor seeking an abortion.


And who knows...pro-lifers may even be restricted from praying near clinics as this could "interfere" with a woman's "right" to choose.

3 comments:

Amy said...

Outrageous... We have got to pray - not only for the upcoming election, but for Obama himself.

Trisha Q said...

This really makes me ill. WE have to pray for the end of the culture of death and pray for God's Divine Mercy!

Superb Jon said...

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