By the mainline media’s “oh, isn’t he just wonderful?” gushing accounts of Obama’s speech at Notre Dame, it was a grand slam home run. He was conciliatory, gracious, and non-partisan – and did I mention wonderful?
Among his other remarks, Obama said this:
That’s when we begin to say, “Maybe we won’t agree on abortion, but we can still agree that this heart-wrenching decision for any woman is not made casually, it has both moral and spiritual dimensions.
So let us work together to reduce the number of women seeking abortions, let’s reduce unintended pregnancies. (Applause.) Let’s make adoption more available. (Applause.) Let’s provide care and support for women who do carry their children to term. (Applause.) Let’s honor the conscience of those who disagree with abortion, and draft a sensible conscience clause, and make sure that all of our health care policies are grounded not only in sound science, but also in clear ethics, as well as respect for the equality of women.” Those are things we can do. (Applause.)
Now, understand — understand, Class of 2009, I do not suggest that the debate surrounding abortion can or should go away. Because no matter how much we may want to fudge it — indeed, while we know that the views of most Americans on the subject are complex and even contradictory — the fact is that at some level, the views of the two camps are irreconcilable. Each side will continue to make its case to the public with passion and conviction. But surely we can do so without reducing those with differing views to caricature.
Open hearts. Open minds. Fair-minded words. It’s a way of life that has always been the Notre Dame tradition. (Applause.) Father Hesburgh has long spoken of this institution as both a lighthouse and a crossroads. A lighthouse that stands apart, shining with the wisdom of the Catholic tradition, while the crossroads is where differences of culture and religion and conviction can co-exist with friendship, civility, hospitality, and especially love.” And I want to join him and Father John in saying how inspired I am by the maturity and responsibility with which this class has approached the debate surrounding today’s ceremony. You are an example of what Notre Dame is about. (Applause.)
First of all, Obama’s statement that abortion is a “heart-wrenching decision not made casually” is simply not true for a LOT of women. For example, abortion is the top birth control option for women in Russia. Are they a different species there? Are women in Russia not women? Are they not human? Are they not in fact very much like us? Another study found numerous women in the UK who had had five or more abortions, with “30 teenage girls a week asking for repeat abortions.” I looked for numbers regarding the United States, but the numbers are not nearly as forthcoming given that NARAL and mainline media propaganda seem to dominate. Abortion is surely a difficult choice for some women, but it is most certainly not a difficult choice whatsoever for all. And I’m not going to pretend it is.
Some women decide to have abortions out of fear for the future. But many others decide to do so for their own convenience for the simple reason that they don’t want a child and aren’t willing to carry their baby to term so he or she can be adopted. It is not women who are victims of abortion, but the babies whom they abort. Don’t ever forget that.
Then Obama says, “let us work together to reduce the number of women seeking abortions.” My question is why? Because it sounds good coming out of the mouths of liberals talking the language of pro-lifers? Why should a liberal care about reducing the numbers of abortions? Isn’t abortion a sacrosanct right? How many other sacred rights should be reduced? Would less free speech be a good thing? How about fewer voters? Maybe we can reduce the number of attorneys made available to those accused of crimes?
In the same vein, what of Obama’s description of abortion as “having both moral and spiritual dimensions”? Really? How does that make any sense whatsoever unless we are talking about a baby human being, rather than a blob of tissue? Does having one’s tonsils removed have “moral and spiritual dimensions”? Clearly it doesn’t. There is clearly something more to the implications of abortion. This use of language is nothing more than another example of Obama and those like him trying to use language in a deceptive manner to convey a false illusion of truth, of compassion, and of a genuine understanding the issues involved.
The fact of the matter is that pro-abortion folk speaking of wanting to reduce abortions or calling it a moral and spiritual decision is simply gobbledygook.
If pro-abortionists want to reduce the number of abortions, why on earth would they push so hard to make abortion more available? Does anyone think that if we made drugs more available, the number of drug abusers would go down? Should we offer crack cocaine in our schools, so that kids can be “pro-choice” on drugs and “reduce the number of addictions”? How can you not spot the asininity of this rhetoric?
But it was when Obama spoke about honoring one another while we disagree on abortion that was the most insulting to moral intelligence.
Let me illustrate why I say the above thusly:
Suppose you have two little girls, and I kidnap one and kill her (to put in in abortionist terms, I “terminate her life”). And it is my plan to soon do the same to the second daughter. And I meet with the girls’ parents and I say, “Let’s not let our differences in opinion result in our hating one another. I tell them, “The fact that I don’t believe your children are human beings worthy of life doesn’t change the fact that you shouldn’t ‘reduce those with differing views to caricature.'” I beseech them to maintain “their open-hearts, their open minds, and their fair-minded words” as I dehumanize and terminate their precious babies.
Does anybody believe the parents would politely nod their heads in agreement? After all, can’t we all just get along and disagree honorably about such things?
You know that isn’t what would happen. Those parents would do anything to stop me. And so would the police. So would any passing citizen who had any moral decency at all and was in any position to prevent my harming those children.
The fact of the matter is, Obama’s rhetoric presupposes that this debate isn’t about the lives of babies, but rather some academic discussion regarding the rights of women over which we can disagree. In other words, Obama’s call to “friendship, civility, hospitality, and love” as we politely agree to disagree presume that babies aren’t being killed and no one is getting hurt.
For all the intelligence Obama is supposed to possess, listening to him is much more like eating candy than it is dining on profundity. It’s junk food for the mind and the soul.
I don’t mind it one bit when pro-abortionists call me “anti-choice.” I’m fine with their intensely hard feelings directed at me. Because that’s the way it frankly should be: we are on opposite sides of the greatest life and death moral issue of all time (unless you can tell me something else that has ended more human lives than abortion). It’s not supposed to be civil with such incredibly high stakes.
Which is why I’m not going to allow Barack Obama or anyone else to tell me, “Don’t get so worked up over abortion. We’re all good people just trying to do the right thing.”
Sorry, Barry, but you are an advocate for baby killing. You and people like you have murdered well over forty million innocent human lives, and one day a just and holy God will damn you to hell for it. I’m not going to treat you with quit dignity and respect when you are systematically depriving millions of children of not only their dignity but their lives. In the meantime, abortion and other child-reduction strategies have resulted in this nation going from about 16 workers for every retiree to only three workers for every retiree. And within a matter of a relatively few years it will go down to only two workers for every single retiree. And as our system breaks down we’ll get to enjoy hell early, and right here on earth, due to our abortion mindset.
With this in mind, consider another comment Obama made in his Notre Dame address, from the perspective of helpless unborn babies who have been dehumanized so that they can be killed by people who elevate convenience over another human being’s life:
Unfortunately, finding that common ground — recognizing that our fates are tied up, as Dr. King said, in a “single garment of destiny” — is not easy. And part of the problem, of course, lies in the imperfections of man — our selfishness, our pride, our stubbornness, our acquisitiveness, our insecurities, our egos; all the cruelties large and small that those of us in the Christian tradition understand to be rooted in original sin. We too often seek advantage over others. We cling to outworn prejudice and fear those who are unfamiliar. Too many of us view life only through the lens of immediate self-interest and crass materialism; in which the world is necessarily a zero-sum game. The strong too often dominate the weak, and too many of those with wealth and with power find all manner of justification for their own privilege in the face of poverty and injustice. And so, for all our technology and scientific advances, we see here in this country and around the globe violence and want and strife that would seem sadly familiar to those in ancient times.
A new poll gives cause for celebration and hope: 51% of Americans now identify themselves as “pro-life” versus only 42% who identify themselves as “pro-choice” according to Gallup. It never mattered whether a majority of Americans believed abortion was murder or not to make abortion murder. For example, there was a time in this country’s history when most Americans believed blacks weren’t fully human; were they therefore not fully human? But it is marvelous that the “majority says” argument has now officially been taken away from abortionists.
Three articles detailing Obama’s own association with abortion and outright infanticide:
Why Barack Obama Is A Baby Killer. Period.
Jill Stanek On Why Barack Obama Voted For Infanticide
Obama Crossed The Line From Abortion To Genuine Infanticide
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Start Thinking Right 
May 18, 2009 at 12:15 pm
“But it was when Obama spoke about honoring one another while we disagree on abortion that was the most insulting to moral intelligence.”
Insulting and ‘crazy making!’ I don’t know what angers me more, Obama’s mendacity or the mindless, spineless, stupid people who believe him.
Michael, your blog is a respite of truth from the insanity being spewed at us on a daily basis. Thanks for your work.
May 18, 2009 at 7:56 pm
I appreciate you as well, HL. And I value your comments greatly.
So many horrors in world history have been perpetuated in the name of utopias, and in the words of “fairness” or “equality” for one group of people in order to justify their taking the property and lives of another group of people.
The Nazis didn’t just come for the Jews. They took away retarded children, chronic bedwetters, even children with malformed ears. They were advancing the work began by American progressive Margaret Sanger (founder of Planned Parenthood) to improve the gene pool. And the ambulances that hauled these children off to their deaths were called “Mercy wagons.”
The phrase that was used to justify the Holocaust was “Lebensunwertes Leben” (a life unworthy to be lived). And how compassionate were these incredible monsters! The men and women who advance abortion use the same arguments and basically the same language to justify doing the same basic thing: genocide (what else do you call over 40 million dead human beings?).
Abortionists are sensitive to “women’s rights” and ignore not only the rights but the humanity of the children they kill. Many slave owners used to be “sensitive” to the same sort of rights, as well.
One day they will stand before the presence of an Angry and Holy God who will say, “You supported the murder of My children! Away with you! I never knew you!”