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Dec. 3, 2008

Steven Emerson: Yes, the terrorists are winning

Don Terry: Lifetime, no see

Dec. 2, 2008

Melanie Phillips: The Mumbai atrocity is a wake-up call for a frighteningly unprepared world

Stratfor Geopolitical Intelligence Report: Strategic Motivations for the Mumbai Attack

Dec. 1, 2008

Max Freidlander, as told to Jacklyn C. Wadler: India Inkings

Mark Steyn: Whodunit!?

Nov. 28, 2008

Rabbi Ahron Rapps: An evil seed that didn't have to be

Melanie Phillips: Carpe diem --- or can we all relax now?

Nov. 26, 2008

Michael Feldberg: Meet the Orthodox Jew who laid groundwork for scientific development of ordnance that undergirds America's current world leadership

Andrea Simantov: Shades of life

Nov. 25, 2008

The Jewish Ethicist by Rabbi Dr. Asher Meir : Getting Emotional For Influence

The Kosher Gourmet by Ethel G. Hofman : Thanksiving feast!

Nov. 24, 2008

Rabbi S. Binyomin Ginsberg: 'I just Became a grandchild!'

Barry Rubin: Don't flatter your enemies, protect your friends

Nov. 21, 2008

Rabbi A. Henach Leibowitz: Money matters?

Caroline B. Glick: Civilization walks the plank

Nov. 20, 2008

Rabbi Avi Shafran: Bronfman's blindness

The Kosher Gourmet By Linda Gassenheimer: Portobellos add a hearty flavor to pasta with pesto

Nov, 19, 2008

The Jewish Ethicist by Rabbi Dr. Asher Meir : Spread the wealth? Jewish tradition and income equality

Elliot B. Gertel: 'Mad Men': Tackling prejudices or reinforcing them?

Nov, 18, 2008

Dr. Debby Schwarz Hirschhorn: The End of the Age of Reason

Jonathan Tobin: Does Barack + Bibi = Disaster?

Nov, 17, 2008

Rabbi Yonason Goldson: The End of the Age of Reason

Diana West: Gulling Americans into making terror legit?

Nov, 14, 2008

Rabbi A. Henach Leibowitz: The Power of Spiritual Inertia

Caroline B. Glick: The perils ahead

Nov, 13, 2008

Stratfor Intelligence Briefing: How Bush and Obama together could change the Middle East dynamic

The Kosher Gourmet by JeanMarie Brownson: Sweet and savory, crispy and meltingly tender bestilla

Nov, 12, 2008

The Jewish Ethicist by Rabbi Dr. Asher Meir : Tyrannical Co-Workers

Michael Doyle: High Court to consider today donated monuments that may have religious messages in public parks

Nov, 11, 2008

Frank J. Gaffney, Jr.: Will Obama stop government officials considering institutionalizing financial jihad?

Jonathan Tobin: They Will Decide Their Own Fate

Nov, 10, 2008

Rabbi Avi Shafran: $8 billion, modern-day Tower of Babel being built?

Barry Rubin: A letter to the president-elect from a Middle East realist

Nov, 7, 2008

Rabbi Francis Nataf: Of Children and Immortality

Caroline B. Glick: Livni's Obama strategy

Nov, 6, 2008

Rabbi Yonason Goldson: How I tricked a classroom of apathetic students into grasping the fallacy of moral relativism

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Nov, 5, 2008

The Jewish Ethicist By Rabbi Dr. Asher Meir: Destitute Debtors

Bruce Weinstein: 'Religulos': Bad title,even worse movie

Nov, 4, 2008

Frank J. Gaffney, Jr.: Treasury Dept. submits to Shariah law

Frida Ghitis: A surprise for Obama in the Middle East

Nov, 3, 2008

Jonathan Rosenblum: Who says Jews are Smart?

Jonathan Tobin: Was He Wrong About Everything?

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Jewish World Review August 29, 2008 / 28 Menachem-Av 5768

Obama Obortion

By Greg Crosby


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http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | Barack Obama picked Joe Obiden as his running mate. And that makes the Democrat's presidential ticket solidly pro-abortion. Or should I say pro-Obortion? Add the esteemed Creeper of the House, congressperson, Nancy "Stretch" Opelosi into the mix and you've got a triple obortion threat. That's right, folks, All abortion All the time.


When Obama says "Yes, we can," he means yes, we can have no restrictions on abortions all the way up to and including late-term, partial birth, and even infanticide. Barack Obama has the distinction of having a perfect record in opposing pro-life legislation - he even fought against a bill protecting the right to life of a baby born alive.


In March 2001, a bill was introduced in the Illinois Senate, where Obama was then serving, which stated in part: "A live child born as a result of an abortion shall be fully recognized as a human person and accorded immediate protection under the law." The bill came following an investigation of a Chicago-area hospital that left babies born alive to die without medical care.


In the book, "The Case Against Barack Obama: The Unlikely Rise and Unexamined Agenda of the Media's Favorite Candidate" the author, David Freddoso makes the point that "This bill was not an abortion law." It did not confer any right or legal status upon any baby not yet born. This bill had no legal conflicts with Roe v. Wade … Born and living survivors of abortion would be unambiguously considered 'persons.' Medically, scientifically, empirically, they were no different from the many premature babies who are born in American hospitals each year."


Nevertheless, Sen. Obama spoke against the bill on the Senate floor. He was the only senator to do so.


Obama voted "present" on the bill. It passed the Senate, but later died in a House committee. In 2002, the legislation was reintroduced in three separate bills. Obama voted against the two bills that received a vote and, once again, spoke in opposition on the Senate floor. Obama also has opposed restrictions on partial-birth abortion, a late-term abortion that kills a partially delivered living fetus and is considered by some to be tantamount to infanticide.


Barak Obortion, I mean Obama, arguably is the most pro-abortion presidential candidate in the history of our nation. When asked by Pastor Rick Warren at the recent Saddleback Civic Forum on the Presidency, "At what point does a baby get human rights, in your view?" Obama said, "Answering that question with specificity, you know, is above my pay grade."


When Obama says "I don't know at what point live begins" he goes even further than traditional left-leaning Democrats such as former governor Mario Cuomo, a pro-choice Catholic. Cuomo has always stated that his personal belief is that abortion is wrong, but then he says that he does not want to "impose" his belief as a public official. Joe OBiden has made the same excuse. It's a shrewd way of getting around a thorny question for so-called "practicing" Catholic politicians.


Whether you believe them or not, they at least give voice to the moral case against abortion, acknowledging that it is ethically a wrong thing to do. But not Obama! He believes in abortion, supports it wholeheartedly and unashamedly. Declining to say abortion is wrong, he has proudly proclaimed, "I believe in Roe v. Wade." Well, I guess we all have our beliefs, right?


In an appearance on NBC's "Meet the Press," Nancy Pelosi said "doctors of the church" have not been able to define when life begins and that "over the history of the church, this is an issue of controversy." Oh, really? It didn't take too long before high ranking church officials came down hard on Pelosi's stupid statement.


Washington Archbishop Donald Wuerl, citing the teaching responsibility entrusted to bishops, issued a statement the day after that interview that read, in part: "Since the first century the Church has affirmed the moral evil of every procured abortion. This teaching has not changed and remains unchangeable."


Denver Archbishop Charles Chaput and his auxiliary bishop, James Conley, said in a statement posted on the archdiocesan Web site: "Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi is a gifted public servant of strong convictions and many professional skills. Regrettably, knowledge of Catholic history and teaching does not seem to be one of them." Abortion "is always gravely evil, and so are the evasions employed to justify it," the statement continued.


I guess when it comes to knowing a thing or two about her own professed religion, Nancy "Stretch" Opelosi either knows from nothing, or changes the truth to suit herself. Of course none of this should come as any surprise to people. Because when it comes to religion, like almost every other issue of our time, the Left never lets truth stand in their way.


Yes we can. Obortion. Obama. Oh Boy.

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