Obama to Force HIS Moral Standards on YOU
-By Warner Todd Huston
Just a reminder that Barack Obama still has the inaptly named Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA) on his plate. During the campaign Obama promised to work on the act as one of his first efforts as president. For those unaware, this law would take away the rights of parents to be notified when their children are undergoing abortions, will cancel state laws against partial birth abortion and nationalize rules governing abortion. It will force taxpayer funding for abortion nationwide and force all hospitals and healthcare facilities run by religious organizations to act against their religious principles by forcing them to become abortion mills.
The FOCA attempts to redefine abortion as a Constitutionally protected right and to federalize all abortion rules taking away the right of the states to make their own laws concerning the issue and, thereby, taking away the right of the voters to add their voice to the debate.
Denise M. Burke, vp of Americans United for Life, notes that the FOCA will negatively affect many measures that Americans support across the country. Just some of the effects of the FOCA are as follows:
- Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003
- Hyde Amendment (restricting taxpayer funding of abortions)
- Restrictions on abortions performed at military hospitals
- Restrictions on insurance coverage for abortion for federal employees
- Informed consent laws
- Waiting periods
- Parental consent and notification laws
- Health and safety regulations for abortion clinics
- Requirements that licensed physicians perform abortions
- “Delayed enforcement” laws (banning abortion when Roe v. Wade is overturned and/or the authority to restrict abortion is returned to the states)
- Bans on partial-birth abortion
- Bans on abortion after viability. FOCA’s apparent attempt to limit post-viability abortions is illusory. Under FOCA, post-viability abortions are expressly permitted to protect the woman’s “health.” Within the context of abortion, “health” has been interpreted so broadly that FOCA would not actually proscribe any abortion before or after viability.
- Limits on public funding for elective abortions (thus, making American taxpayers fund a procedure that many find morally objectionable)
- Limits on the use of public facilities (such has public hospitals and medical schools at state universities) for abortions
- State and federal legal protections for individual healthcare providers who decline to participate in abortions
- Legal protections for Catholic and other religiously-affiliated hospitals who, while providing care to millions of poor and uninsured Americans, refuse to allow abortions within their facilities
Now, here is the main question that comes to mind, one that illustrates the hypocrisy of the radical left on this issue. Leftists and other fans of infanticide constantly claim that the right to life lobby are “forcing their morals on everyone” when they advocate the end of abortion. These same critics of the right to life also claim that ideals based on “religion” are an illegitimate basis upon which to determine policy in a land supposedly based on “separation of church and state.”
Taking the last point first, how is it that the same nation that was supposedly founded on a separation of church and state (a policy that the left claims precludes basing abortion policy on religious pretenses) went for nearly 200 years before ruling in favor of allowing abortions? If the separation line between abortion law and religious sentiment was so clearly drawn from the beginning as these advocates seem to claim, why was abortion outlawed for so long?
But, more to the point and addressing the first claim above, if pro-life advocates are “forcing” their opinion on “everyone” by advocating for the abolition of infanticide, how is it any different than what anti-life advocates do when they push federal laws that compel everyone to support abortion on demand? Am I not being “forced” to observe abortion on demand when federal law forces me to do so under threat of the law?
If pro-abortion advocates truly wanted a fair playing field where “choice” was possible, they would be standing against federal laws and pushing for state control. That way the people would have a say in the matter. Yet, curiously, these same folks that claim “choice” is their principle are attempting to force their own opinion on abortion on the entire nation at once by federal compulsion.
Hypocrites. And murderous ones at that.
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Posted by Warner Todd Huston on January 29, 2009 5:38 am
» Filed Under Abortion, Barack Obama, Democrats, Journalistic Malpractice, Liberal Media/Bias, News, liberalism, religion
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“Stop the ACLU.com.” That in itself is funny. One of the most credible organizations under attack for protecting people’s rights. They even protect their opponents when these opponents civil rights are being violated. Not that’s credibility.
When people refuse to do their jobs they should be fired. When medical personnell refuse to do their jobs they should be fired. Period. If you have religious or philosophical objections to your job requirements then you should quit your job. If you are against capital punishment, then don’t take the job of executioner.
No proposed Freedom of Choice Act has EVER contained language to force people to perform abortions or to remove funding from those, say, Catholic hospitals that do. This is religious right scare tactics.
There is a separation of church and state. There are morals that most everyone shares regardless of religion. “Choice” does not require one to get an abortion. No one gets pregnant with the express intent of getting an abortion. Abortion is always a tragedy, but sometimes the woman in question must choose this tragedy.
You also bring up an interesting comment about the parent’s right to know their young daughter is getting an abortion, presumably with time to put a stop to it. What about a child’s rights? Not all parents make decisions that turn out to be in their child’s best interests. I give you that this particular point is ripe for debate.
No one is pro-abortion. Please stop lying about this. The opposite of pro-life is forced abortion and no one dares even think about this in the USA. “Choice” provides for the great majority to have their babies and the unfortunate few to make a very hard and tragic decision. This is their right, not your right to force your will on them.
Moral Standards???????????????????
I would more correctly define it as an EXTREME LACK OF MORAL STANDARDS OF ANY KIND!
When ever you take away someone’s right to chose, you ARE forcing an opinion on them. How is giving someone an option forcing anything on them? If you don’t believe in abortion, don’t have one!
JimGramze writes:
No one is pro-abortion.
If you arm somebody, give them the money drop schedule for the bank, provide a getaway car, and then pay for his lawyer once he’s caught, you’re not “pro-bank robbery choice”, you’re pro-bank robbery.