Both John McCain and Barack Obama participated in a forum in which they were asked questions by Pastor Rick Warren on the issues that matter to "values voters" at Saddleback Church. Obama was asked, "at what point does a baby get human rights in your view?" His answer was actually that the question was "above my pay grade." Perhaps the Senate is more along the lines of Obama's pay grade because the presidency is the most important job in the world, a job which does have to confront abortion related issues.
Obama also said that the "the fact is that although we’ve had a president who is opposed to abortions over the last eight years, abortions have not gone down." As John Adams famously stated in his defense of the British soldiers of the Boston massacre, "facts are stubborn things." The small problem with this fact is that it is simply not true. The findings of the Alan Guttmacher Institute, a reproductive health and rights think-tank that surveys every known abortion provider in the country every four or five years, were reported early this year. This is the group's 14th survey. According to the study released the abortion rate in 2005 was lower than the rate in 1975, two years after Roe v. Wade. The rate is calculated as the percentage of women of childbearing age having abortions. "In 2005 we had an abortion rate of 19.4 abortions per 1,000 women aged 15 to 44," said Rachel Jones, a senior research associate with the group and the study's lead author. That's down "considerably" from a high point of 29.3 abortions per 1,000 women in 1980, she said. There was also a drop in the actual number of abortions performed. In 2005, there were 1.2 million abortions in the U.S., down 8 percent from 1.3 million in 2000. Click the image to enlarge:
Finally, he never actually answered the question about whether he has "EVER VOTED to limit or reduce abortions." He would rather avoid the issue and his actual record. He claims he is against late term abortions but yet he voted against the partial birth abortion ban in the Senate which included an exception for the life of the mother. In the Illinois State Senate he also voted against a bill to protect babies that survive failed abortions. His record on abortion is abysmal.
The following is an edited and spliced clip showing how Obama lied in a CBN interview:
In case you do not believe this video alone, the New York Sun reports that "indeed, Mr. Obama appeared to misstate his position in the CBN interview on Saturday when he said the federal version he supported 'was not the bill that was presented at the state level.' His campaign yesterday acknowledged that HE HAD VOTED AGAINST AN IDENTICAL BILL in the state Senate, and a spokesman, Hari Sevugan, said the senator and other lawmakers had concerns that even as worded, the legislation could have undermined existing Illinois abortion law."
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Sunday, August 17, 2008
Obama Lies And Misleads In Answer To Abortion Question At Saddleback Church
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