Quite simply, a Christian can not support Obama
-By Mike Moore-
It’s a scene all too common.
A woman, having just given birth, looks at the newborn baby in her doctor’s arms and notices something is very, very wrong.
The baby is not crying - as a matter of fact, it’s just breathing. Its movements are awkward and uncoordinated, fairly consistent with something just seconds old.
Something is very, very wrong.
This baby shouldn’t be breathing, yet alone moving. This baby, this fetus, as it is called, was supposed to be aborted, never intended to be minutes, yet alone seconds old.
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You may have heard the name Jill Stanek before. She was a registered nurse in the Labor and Delivery Department at Christ Hospital in Oak Lawn, Ill. But in 1999 she discovered babies that were born alive, or in a better term, babies that survived induced-labor abortions such as the one described (where an abortionist artificially induces labor with the expectation that the underdeveloped fetus will not survive the delivery) were literally shelved to die in a utility room.
Think that over.
An infant, which survived an abortion, is taken, alive and breathing, to a utility room to be placed on a shelf until death. A friendly term being tossed around this election season is infanticide.
Stanek went public with her findings, a move that eventually cost her her job. In 2001 and 2002 she testified before a U.S. House Committee for the Born Alive Infants Protection Act, and in August of 2002, was invited by President George Bush to be on hand for his signing of the Born Alive Infants Protection Act.
“This reform was passed with the overwhelming support of both political parties,” Bush said at the time. “It is about to become the law of the land.”
But now, with the 2008 election just days away, that law could be in jeopardy, which is the main reason no self-respecting Christian should, or more importantly could, ever support or vote for, Barack Obama.
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During his days in the Illinois senate, Obama vehemently opposed the Born Alive Act, voting against it on three separate occasions. His reasons for doing so varied. He opposed the Act because it would, “unduly encroach upon Roe,” and would put abortion doctors in legal liability.
In his own words on infanticide, (does it feel better to use that term), Obama said the following, and I plead with you to read slowly. Try to comprehend.
“As I understand it, this puts the burden on the attending physician who has determined, since they were performing this procedure, that, in fact, this is a nonviable fetus; that if that fetus, or child - however way you want to describe it - is now outside the mother’s womb and the doctor continues to think that it’s nonviable but there’s, let’s say, movement or some indication that, in fact, they’re not just coming out limp and dead, that, in fact, they would then have to call a second physician to monitor and check off and make sure that this is not a live child that could be saved.”
To clarify his words, Obama went on to explain…
“whenever we define a pre-viable fetus as a person that is protected by the Equal Protection Clause or the other elements in the Constitution, what we’re really saying is, in fact, that they are persons that are entitled to the kinds of protections that would be provided to a - a child, a 9-month old - child that was delivered to term. That determination then, essentially, if it was accepted by a court, would forbid abortions to take place. I mean, it - it would essentially bar abortions, because the Equal Protection Clause does not allow somebody to kill a child, and if this is a child, then this would be an anti- abortion statute.”
In other words, tending to a live and viable “fetus, or child - however way you want to describe it,” that didn’t cooperate with an abortion is unacceptable because a move like that challenges Roe vs. Wade and in doing so “would essentially bar abortions.”
I wish this was the worst of it, but those who have followed this election, those who have truly researched and looked into Obama’s stance on abortion know how extreme he is. It’s easy to call him pro-choice, but aside from voting against the Infant Act, he also voted in support of partial birth abortion. An adamant supporter of Planned Parenthood, Obama stated one of the first things he would do upon taking office is sign the Freedom of Choice Act, which would essentially overturn every local, state, and federal abortion law passed in the past 35 years.
“I’ve got two daughters…I’m going to teach them, first of all, about values and morals,” Obama said this past March, “but if they make a mistake, i don’t want them punished with a baby.”
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“The common theme, the common idea of any Christian faith, is the idea that life is sacred from the time of conception to the moment of natural death,” said a Christian priest in the Dearborn area, who will remain anonymous. “This is not just a Catholic view as many people think. This is a Christian view.”
His words became more adamant as he spoke, a certain passion brewing with each second.
“It is absolutely impossible, impossible, for any Christian to support, yet alone vote for a candidate that supports abortion. It goes against everything faith teaches us. … There is no option here. A Christian can not support someone like that.”
There are many issues at stake in this year’s election, everything from the economy to the wars to immigration and so on. But those who care about and actually practice their faith, those who go (or should be going) to church on a weekly basis, must have a higher calling, must distinguish themselves to another level.
“There is no greater issue, none at all, than the issue of protecting life,” the priest added. “Sure the economy is in the pits, but think about a country in which all those aborted babies would be consumers. People needing cars and groceries and everything else. Think we’d be in the same position we are now?”
In a word, no.
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I understand there are those who will see my stance as an extreme one, those who I may never know, those who I consider close friends. The consequence of writing something like this is something I welcome, good and bad, because it is something I believe in, without the slightest bit of hesitation.
Feel free to disagree. Feel free to justify supporting a candidate who only values life outside the womb (in most cases). You can lie to me. You can lie to yourself when you step into that voting booth. But in no way, can you lie to your faith.
This election is historic on so many fronts. Consider, whoever is elected will, without a doubt, appoint one, maybe two or as many as three, justices to the Supreme Court. Think how far we’ve come as a country in terms of abortion, and how many steps have been taken to limit the practice of killing the innocent.
It’s staggering to think nearly 50 million abortions have been conducted in the United States since Roe vs. Wade. On average, more than 3,000 lives will end today by way of abortion, and that number will only rise should Obama win.
I again understand there are those of you who find a piece like this extreme. I understand there are those of you who will look at me in a different light after reading this.
So be it.
Less than two weeks ago I got the first look at my first child. Barely 13 weeks in the womb, legs were kicking, arms were swinging, and, most incredibly of all, a heart was beating.
Is that a choice? Is that, as Obama said, a “fetus, or child - however way you want to describe it.”?
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We of faith have a chance to stand for what is right Nov. 4. A chance to take another step toward protecting those who have no voice, toward protecting those who never had a choice.
Those of you of faith, those with the courage to take a stand on something so important, I challenge you to do what is right Tuesday. Don’t vote with your wallet, or your mortgage or your lack of earthly possessions. You know as well as I do, those things are cyclical. The economy will rebound, home values will increase, and we all have too much stuff as it is.
Instead, I plead with you to vote with your conscience, vote with the God you believe in. Vote with the faith you uphold.
Keep in mind, you aren’t just voting for yourself, but instead, filling out a ballot for the 50 million cries never heard, the 50 millions smiles never seen, the 50 million lives ended without a choice … the 50 million votes never cast.
Which candidate do you think they would pick?
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Some links you may find interesting…if you have the courage to watch.
-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rh_b3WXbqvI
-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0c7j6w-8I4&feature=related
-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSsFzue-V-I&feature=related
-http://www.holylamb.com/abortion3i.htm
Mike Moore can be reached at mjm12@albion.edu.
