One of the perennial issues that has dominated Presidential elections since the 1960′s is the issue of abortion. Abortion, as we all know by now, was legalized in the United States by the United States Supreme Court in Roe v. Wade. Further abortion rights were extended in Planned Parenthood v. Casey (1992), where Roe’s strict trimester rules were overturned to allow for abortions after the first trimester. Laws have been introduced since to help side line the number of abortions in the country, the vast majority of these laws have been found unconstitutional. Among those which have not include a law called the Partial Birth Abortion Ban, which makes it illegal to perform an abortion on a child partially born (past a certain point in the woman..)
Senator Obama, one of the most liberal members of the United States government, has campaigned for President on the platform of hope and change for all Americans. He has fought for greater health care coverage to all Americans; even going so far as to call health care a right. He wants to return our fighting men and women from Iraq and Afghanistan to remove them from harms way. Yet Senator Obama has been one of the biggest supports of extending abortion rights. Obama has said before that women should not be “punished” with a baby that they do not want. In 2008 he has opposed a law which would provide medical treatment to babies who survive an attempted abortion. He has also voted no on allowing unborn children access to SCHIP (State Children’s Health Insurance Program), which provides health insurance to families with children who aren’t able to afford their own insurance. He has also voted no to prevent minors from crossing state lines in order to receive abortions, and has also voted against requiring minors from notifying their parents before receiving an abortion out of state.
While he has supported minors being able to cross state lines without telling their parents to get an abortion, he has also supported parents having more control over what their children read, play and watch. If a parent is going to have control over what their child watches, reads, or plays then why shouldn’t they have control over whether or not they get an abortion? A person under the age of 18 is not a legal adult in the eyes of the United States Government, and therefore should not be extended the rights of a legal adult. If a young girl gets pregnant, then she shouldn’t be allowed to have an abortion without her parent’s permission. It is ludicrous to think that a child has to have permission to go on a school field trip when they are 15, but they can go to another state on their own and get an abortion. This is not protecting America’s youth in any ways Mr. Obama.
The general consensus on when a fetus becomes a baby is when it takes it’s first breath of air after leaving the mother. There have been instances where an unborn child has survived an attempted abortion and later been brought to term. Senator Obama has voted against providing these children with medical care when he was in the Illinois State Senate and in the United State Senate. Senator Obama wants to extend health coverage to families with children. So why does he not want to provide basic medical care, offered to every other young child, to those who survive an attempted abortion? A child who is born, as defined above, regardless of whether or not they have survived an abortion, should be granted medical care.
When looking at Senator Obama, one must not pay attention to his smoke and mirrors routine, but look at the issues and where he stands on them. Barack Obama is not a friend to children. He claims that he wants to see health insurance and medical care extended to those who don’t have insurance, specifically children, yet he was to refuse such care to those who survive an abortion. He claims that parents should have more control over what their children watch, read, or play yet he wants to restrict those parents from having say in their daughter’s pregnancy. Ask yourself this, do you want a man in the Oval Office who will protect the rights of America’s version of the Aryan child and will ignore the needs of those deemed unworthy? Or do you want a man in the Oval Office who will protect the rights of all Americans, whether they are not yet born or are already independent adults? As Governor Palin recently said in a speech on the issue of life, “Yes, every innocent life matters. Everyone belongs in the circle of protection. Every child has something to contribute to the world, if we give them that chance. There are the world’s standards of perfection… and then there are God’s, and these are the final measure. Every child is beautiful before God, and dear to Him for their own sake….”
