President Obama and Abortion


As shown on another nearby page, abortion is a vital component of the Democratic Party platform.  It is the one issue the Democratic Party can't exist without.  But Mr. Obama, judging by his voting record in the Senate and his actions in the White House, is way off to the left of everyone else.  He is truly an extremist who approves of fetal homicide at any stage of pregnancy... or slightly beyond.

A large portion of the commentary on this page was written before President Obama was elected.  Anyone who opposes abortion or neonaticide or infanticide should have known better than to vote for this man.


Obama and the Marxist/Communist View of Marriage and Abortion.  [Scroll down]  As to President Obama, he is far and away the most radical supporter of abortion ever to step in the White House.  This audience needs no proof of that, from Obama forcing all taxpayers to fund abortion drugs (with no religious exemption), to fund Planned Parenthood, to fund embryonic research, and on and on.  Even before all of that, this was a man who as U.S. senator had co-sponsored the Freedom of Choice Act, the most extreme piece of pro-abortion legislation ever in America; who in a 2007 speech to Planned Parenthood hailed America's largest abortion provider as a "safety net"; and who as a state senator in Illinois repeatedly refused to provide mandatory health care for babies who somehow survived abortion procedures.  (These babies apparently were not part of Obama's vision for mandatory/universal health care.)

President Barack Obama's Pro-Abortion Record.  [This] is a compilation of bill signings, speeches, appointments and other actions that President Barack Obama has engaged in that have promoted abortion before and during his presidency.  While Obama has promised to reduce abortions and some of his supporters believe that will happen, this long list proves his only agenda is promoting more abortions.

Defining deviancy down has consequences.  Our audacious president, as part of his ongoing enterprise to transform America, has gone beyond defining deviancy down.  Abortion, sterilization, and sexual promiscuity have not just been redefined as normal.  They are considered "reproductive rights" for which we all should foot the bill.

Irony:
 No Birth Certificate Required.  The White House Visitors Office requires that an unborn child — still residing in utero — must be counted as a full human being when its parents register for a White House tour, according to documents obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.

Obama defunds 'snowflake babies'.  The federal government's only program aimed at preventing the discarding of "extra" frozen human embryos is itself in danger of being discarded.  In a move that pro-lifers are calling more evidence of the Obama administration's "pro-abortion slant," the White House has sought to defund the Embryo Adoption Awareness Campaign in its fiscal 2013 budget.

Obama's Infanticide Votes.  [Scroll down]  Obama has offered deceptive explanations of his own pro-abortion legislative work, while simultaneously accusing his pro-life opponents of being dishonest.  More important, Obama's record as a state senator was not merely pro-choice, but radically pro-abortion.  His voting record indicates that he does not believe infants deserve protection even once they have emerged from the womb if they are deemed to be below the age of viability, and he did in fact, three times, vote to keep a form of infanticide legal.

President Barack Obama's Pro-Abortion Record.  [On this page] is a compilation of bill signings, speeches, appointments and other actions that President Barack Obama has engaged in that have promoted abortion before and during his presidency.  While Obama has promised to reduce abortions and some of his supporters believe that will happen, this long list proves his only agenda is promoting more abortions.

When Obama Voted For Infanticide.  Obama's abortion extremism is such that, as a state legislator, he opposed protection for — I'll use his words here — "that fetus, or child — however way you want to say describe it" when, contrary to the wishes of the women involved and their abortionists, there was "movement or some indication that, in fact, they're not just coming out limp and dead."  Babies were inconveniently being born alive, self-styled health-care providers carted them off to utility rooms where they would be left to die.  That is infanticide, plain and simple.  In Illinois, people tried to stop this barbarism by supporting "born alive" legislation.  Barack Obama fought them all the way.

Obama's free abortion pills.  Someone should tell President Obama there's no such thing as a free abortion pill. ... It was typical of the administration to make the proposed deal a giveaway program.  Mr. Obama seems to be saying that if you don't see who is paying for the abortion pills then no one is.  "Religious organizations won't have to pay for these services," he said.  But of course they will.  Insurance companies may be required by law to provide these services at no cost to the recipient, but costs are still involved.

The Political Reality Behind the HHS Mandate.  President Obama's policies and politics are focused like a laser on the so-called "women's rights" vote — the feminist and the single women's vote. ... The president is dependent upon continued feminist support for his re-election.  He is more than willing to throw religious rights voters "under the bus" to appease the "new American electorate."  His policy agenda melds with theirs so he has no inner conflict over the choice; he knows he won't get the vote of the "faithful" anyway.  Those coldly political calculations set the stage for the health policy mandates that shred religious liberty.

Obama and the Dictatorship of Relativism.  Alas, it's not a question of the administration being tragically "tone deaf," as one American Jesuit claimed, to specifically Catholic concerns.  Nor is the bedrock of President Obama's position, in the end, a commitment to "women's health."  Outside the ghoulish world of Planned Parenthood, pregnancy does not qualify as a disease.  A fertile womb is no threat to human life.  No, this is all about the absolutization of choice for the sake of choice.

Obamacare, Genocide, and the War on the Unborn.  What lies ahead, if Obamacare goes forward, can be seen in New Zealand.  The new government policy in New Zealand was preceded by the completion of a report on the "cost effectiveness" of aborting Down syndrome babies.  It was determined that it was just too expensive to allow these babies to live.  One can easily envision such a policy developing under Obamacare, considering that we have a President and an administration that do not regard innocent unborn human beings as life worthy of life.

Democrat Party Is Losing Christian Voters in Droves.  Last week Cardinal-designate Timothy Dolan lashed out at the Obama Administration for forcing religious organizations to go out into the marketplace and buy a product that violates their conscience.  New Obama regulations will force Christian organizations to provide free contraceptives, sterilizations and abortion drugs to workers even though this violates Catholic Church teaching.  The new rules are so strict that most Catholic institutions will not qualify for an exemption.  This week the military is telling Catholic Chaplains what they can and cannot say about the Obama Administration.  These are just the latest examples of Obama's war on Christians.

Obama's Abortion Extremism:  Obama's record on abortion is extreme.  He opposed the ban on partial-birth abortion — a practice a fellow Democrat, the late Daniel Patrick Moynihan, once called "too close to infanticide."  Obama strongly criticized the Supreme Court decision upholding the partial-birth ban.  In the Illinois state Senate, he opposed a bill similar to the Born-Alive Infants Protection Act, which prevents the killing of infants mistakenly left alive by abortion.

Closer look at Obama.  Obama can joke that when life begins is above his pay grade, but this is not rocket science.  If you destroy the egg of a bald eagle, you can be fined.  Why?  Because everyone knows that egg is a potential bald eagle.  There is something fundamentally wrong with a society that protects bald eagles and yet allows unborn babies to be burned and sucked from their mother's wombs.  When Obama was an Illinois state legislator, he wouldn't even vote to protect a baby that lived after abortion.  That's cold.

Obama's Abortion Positon:  To the Left of NARAL.  Frank Pastore from KKLA in Los Angeles interviews Jill Stanek, the former registered nurse who served at Christ Hospital in Oak Lawn, Illinois.  She testified before Congress about the death of infants who survived the abortion procedure only to die without care, giving rise to the Born Alive Infant Protection Act.

"Freedom of Choice" vs. "Born Alive".  In a presidential campaign issues arise and then fade from view.  The emergence of new media preoccupations may make it seem as though yesterday's controversy has been resolved.  This is rarely true.  Such is the case with the issue of Barack Obama's position on legal protections for infants while an Illinois state senator.

Obama is no moderate:  His radical position on 'abortion' after birth.  [Scroll down]  So, what are we to make of Obama's votes against protecting the right to life for living babies who have survived attempted abortions?  Such babies are sometimes born alive as a result of late-term induced labor abortions, often sought when babies are believed (sometimes in error) to have genetic defects such as Down syndrome.  Earlier this decade, such living, breathing, babies who survived labor were "shelved" — left to die and disposed of with other medical waste, or were "aborted" — killed outside the womb.  The practice was ultimately banned by unanimous Congressional votes, as even the most pro-abortion Senate Democrats — including every defender of partial-birth abortion — recognized that killing these breathing babies is no longer abortion in any real sense.  It crosses the line; it is infanticide.  Yet, incredibly, Obama repeatedly worked to deny these living babies any right to life.

The Audacity of Death:  According to Barack Obama, Gianna Jessen shouldn't exist.  Miss Jessen is an exquisite example of what antiabortion advocates call a "survivor."  Well into her third trimester of pregnancy, Gianna's biological mother was injected with a saline solution intended to induce a chemical abortion at a Los Angeles County abortion center.  Eighteen hours later, and precious minutes before the abortionist's arrival, Gianna emerged.  Premature and with severe injuries that resulted in cerebral palsy.  But alive.  Had the abortionist been present at her birth, Gianna would have been killed, perhaps by suffocation. … As an Illinois state senator, Barack Obama twice opposed legislation to define as "persons" babies who survive late-term abortions.

Obama's Stealth Pro-Abortion Stance:  In response to a Pennsylvania voter's question about elementary school sex education, Obama said:  "Look, I got two daughters — nine years old and six years old.  I am going to teach them first about values and morals, but if they make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby."  This makes two things clear.  First, Senator Obama supports abortion on demand — even "convenience" abortions — for minors, including his own daughters; and second, Obama considers babies a "punishment" he'd rather spare his daughters, even if those daughters have to abort Obama's own unborn grandchildren to avoid that particular "punishment."  That unguardedly candid public statement is political dynamite — or it would be, if the media had reported on it.

Obama is the Most Pro-Abortion Candidate Ever.  He is so pro-abortion he refused as an Illinois state senator to support legislation to protect babies who survived late-term abortions because he did not want to concede — as he explained in a cold-blooded speech on the Illinois Senate floor — that these babies, fully outside their mothers' wombs, with their hearts beating and lungs heaving, were in fact "persons."  "Persons," of course, are guaranteed equal protection of the law under the 14th Amendment.

More on Obama and Babies Born Alive:  When Obama was in the Illinois Senate, the Born Alive Infants bill came up three successive years.  In 2001, three bills were proposed to help babies who survived induced labor abortions.  One, like the federal Born Alive Infants bill, simply said a living "homo sapiens" wholly emerged from his mother should be treated as a "'person,' 'human being,' 'child' and 'individual.'"  On all three bills, Obama voted "present," effectively the same as a "no."  Defining "a pre-viable fetus" that survived an abortion as a "person" or "child," he argued, "would essentially bar abortions, because the Equal Protection Clause does not allow somebody to kill a child, and if this is a child, then this would be an anti-abortion statute."

Obama's war on decency.  [Scroll down]  The third item is the Food and Drug Administration's evil idea to allow the Plan B "morning-after pill" to be sold over the counter to anyone — regardless of age.  After the story hit the fan, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius issued a directive on Wednesday [12/7/2011] to stop it.  Plan B, which can act as an abortifacient, will continue to be sold over the counter without a prescription to anyone at least 17 years old.  But 10-year-olds won't be able to slip it onto the counter next to their gummy bears.  Is it really necessary to explain why children should not be allowed to buy a powerful drug?

Don't Ask, Don't Tell.  Have any doubt about where Barack Obama stands on abortion rights?  You shouldn't.  During last year's presidential campaign, Obama said he would make "preserving a woman's right to choose under Roe v. Wade a priority as president."  Just three days after taking his oath of office, he lifted a ban on U.S. funding for international groups that promote or perform abortions.  And this week, Obama named a surgeon general, Dr. Regina Benjamin, who, according to a White House spokesman, "supports the president's position on reproductive health issues."

The Nearly Aborted President.  According to recently secured documents from the Immigration and Naturalization Services, evidence has emerged that President Obama's father, Barack Obama, Sr., apparently paid to send a young Kenyan girl he had impregnated in Massachusetts to London to have an abortion.  Doing the work that investigative journalists of the mainstream media used to do, author Jack Cashill reveals that the foreign press, unlike their American counterparts, are all over the story.

Change, but not for better.  [Scroll down]  But at this stage we have nothing to go on apart from his record and his rhetoric and what they reveal about his character.  On that basis, I think he's likely to be a disastrous president. ... Obama is on record as saying that a Freedom of Choice Act is "the first thing" he hoped to sign into law on taking office.  A FOCA goes a long way beyond the 1973 Roe v Wade decision, which mandated a general right to abortion.  It would overturn virtually all the existing limits on abortion, state and federal.  These include restrictions on government funding for the procedure and conscience-protection clauses for healthcare providers.  FOCA would override laws guaranteeing informed consent and, in the case of under-age pregnancies, parental involvement.  It would also require states to sanction late-term procedures, including the contentious "partial-birth" abortion which is widely seen as tantamount to infanticide.

Closer look at Obama reveals he's wrong choice.  Obama can joke that when life begins is above his pay grade, but this is not rocket science.  If you destroy the egg of a bald eagle, you can be fined.  Why?  Because everyone knows that egg is a potential bald eagle.  There is something fundamentally wrong with a society that protects bald eagles and yet allows unborn babies to be burned and sucked from their mother's wombs.  When Obama was an Illinois state legislator, he wouldn't even vote to protect a baby that lived after abortion.  That's cold.

Infanticide and abortion — a "should be" major election issue.  The urgency of the issue I write about is simply that we can now be certain that the real Barack Obama is firmly committed to an agenda of sweeping pro-Abortion and pro-Infanticide policy changes that, if implemented, will drastically increase the number of deaths resulting from Abortion and the Infanticide committed against abortion-survivors.

Oxymorons for Obama.  Sen. Obama last year vowed to a gathered pro-abortion audience at a Planned Parenthood event that, "The first thing I will do as president is sign the Freedom of Choice Act."  Obama's promise should raise concern regardless of one's views on abortion.  While the country is in the middle of a financial crisis and a war, his first act would be to make sure that unrestricted taxpayer funded abortion would become the law of the land?

Why should McCain be angry? Top 10 reasons.  [#5] Obama continues to lie about his vote on mandatory care for infants born alive as a result of a botched abortion.  Obama claimed last night that he didn't vote against it.  That's a complete lie.  You can check the record he voted against three separate bills on the subject.  This is infanticide and again the media give Obama a pass.

Obama's Culture of Death and the Catholic Vote:  Not only do Barack Obama's positions on human life issues lie in absolute contradiction with Pope Benedict XVI, his positions are the most radical of any post-Roe candidate ever to seek the Presidency.  Far more radical than Bill Clinton, John Kerry and Hillary Clinton.  Obama has at least been forthright in proclaiming that the very first thing he will do as President is sign the Freedom of Choice Act, which codifies Roe in national law and strikes down every single protective restriction to abortion in all 50 states, including parental notification and partial-birth abortion bans.

The Supreme Court in the Balance.  Barack Obama has promised that if elected he will support passage of federal legislation that will strike down all state restrictions on abortion.  No more requirements for parental consent, or even parental notice.  No more waiting periods for the mother to think over whether she really wants an abortion for her child.  No more informed consent laws requiring that the mother be provided concrete information regarding abortion and its effects before deciding whether to go through with it.  Obama would also reverse the ban on federal funding for abortions.

If It Was Up to Obama, This Woman Would be Dead.  No, I'm not talking about Sarah Palin, I'm talking about Gianna Jessen.  If it was up to the abominable Obama, the to-be-aborted little baby, Gianna Jessen, would have been turned into worm dirt 31 years ago.  Thankfully, Mr. Change and Mr. Hope wasn't around back then to lay his liberal legislative death-dealing pen to Ms. Jessen's fate — and the world is a better place for it.  So, who is Gianna Jessen?

Obama Campaign Ad Targets Abortion Survivor.  In response to a political ad noting that Barack opposed a bill protecting babies who survive late-term abortions, the Obama campaign has produced an ad of its own, accusing the woman speaking in the ad — herself a late-term abortion survivor — of telling "a despicable lie."

Obama Keeps Distorting "Born Alive" Vote.  Abortion survivor Gianna Jessen is a member of BornAliveTruth.org.  She put a scorching statement up on her website reacting to Obama's attack on her group.  "Mr. Obama is clearly blinded by political ambition given his attack on me this week," she said.  "All I asked of him was to do the right thing:  support medical care and protection for babies who survive abortion — as I did 31 years ago.  He voted against such protection and care four times even though the U.S. Senate voted 98-0 in favor of a bill identical to the one Obama opposed."

Deniers for Obama.  When Congress was considering the Born Alive Infants Protection Act (BAIPA), a subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee heard testimony from Jill Stanek and Allison Baker, two nurses at Christ Hospital in Oak Lawn, Ill.  They described several instances in which babies who were moving and breathing after induced abortions were left to die.  The committee report quoted Jill Stanek:  "Mrs. Stanek testified about another aborted baby who was thought to have had spina bifida, but was delivered with an intact spine.  On another occasion, an aborted baby was left to die on the counter of the Utility Room wrapped in a disposable towel."

Obama is called a 'liar' on abortion.  If you want to know Barack Obama's real views on abortion, you should meet registered nurse Jill Stanek.  Mrs. Stanek worked at Christ Hospital in Oak Lawn, Illinois from 1993 to 2001.  When she worked in the hospital's Labor and Delivery Department she saw that babies who survived abortion attempts were left to die alone in supply rooms.  They could linger for as long as eight hours, without medical care, without even the dignity of a warm blanket or a soft touch.  Their tiny bodies were then dumped in the trash.  Mr. Obama's spiritual mentor served on the board of the hospital.

Obamacide:  During a partial-birth abortion, the abortionist pulls a fully developed, fully "viable" child — often kicking and thrashing — feet first from her mother's womb, leaving only the top of her head in the birth canal.  He then stabs her through the skull with scissors or some other sharp object, piercing her brain until her kicking and moving about suddenly and violently jerk to a halt.  Her brains are then sucked out — collapsing her skull — and her now limp and lifeless body is tossed aside like so much garbage.  Again, medical science has determined that this horrific practice, which is nothing short of infanticide, is never necessary.

Democrats Move Left On Abortion.  It seems as if the Democrats have accomplished the impossible:  They have moved to the left on abortion.  On the party's platform, the Democrats dropped the words "safe, legal and rare," the phrase used most famously by both Bill and Hillary Clinton to signal moderation on the issue.  The Democrats also added the modifier "unequivocally" to strengthen their support for abortion rights.

A Catholic Case Against Barack:  Not only is Barack the most pro-abortion member of the Senate, with his straight A+ report card from the National Abortion Rights Action League and Planned Parenthood.  He supports the late-term procedure known as partial-birth abortion, where the baby's skull is stabbed with scissors in the birth canal and the brains are sucked out to end its life swiftly and ease passage of the corpse into the pan.  Partial-birth abortion, said the late Sen. Pat Moynihan, "comes as close to infanticide as anything I have seen in our judiciary."

Obama's infanticide problem:  You can tell Barack Obama knows he has a problem when he starts lying about his record, and the lie is readily disprovable.  Such is the case with his 2002 vote against the Illinois Born Alive Infants Protection Act. … The liberal media are just going to shrug their shoulders and move on.  But the pro-life community is large enough and organized well enough to make this lie an issue.

Obama's Christian Creds Vs. Abortion and Infanticide:  This, "I don't want them punished with a baby," is perhaps the most self-revelatory statement Barack Obama has uttered in public since he began his campaign for the Presidency. … Because it goes to the personal. It goes to the extent of wholehearted approval of killing one's own grandchildren if they happen to have been conceived inconveniently.

A stark choice on abortion.  If Obama had deliberately set out to appall prolife voters, he couldn't have uttered four words more jarring than "punished with a baby."  The equation of any new child with punishment set teeth on edge, and Obama's campaign quickly issued a clarification.  The candidate, a loving father of two, believes that "children are miracles," it said; he only meant to underscore the importance of reducing teen pregnancy.  But Obama's unscripted words needed no clarifying.  They tartly encapsulated the extreme position on "choice" he has staked out in his career.

Obama Panders on Abortion.  According to The Case Against Barack Obama by David Freddoso, Obama doesn't believe babies born alive during a failed abortion should have the same rights of other babies.  He's said "whenever we define a pre-viable fetus as a person that is protected by the equal protection clause or other elements in the Constitution, what we're really saying is, in fact, that they are persons that are entitled to the kinds of protections that would be provided to a — a child, a nine-month-old — child that was delivered to term." (p. 197)

Obama Lied About His Abortion Record.  The New York Sun reported that Obama's campaign has admitted that the senator voted against giving medical care to babies born alive after an abortion attempt — a fact that the campaign originally dismissed as a "smear."  The reality behind Obama's rhetoric is that he worked against efforts to ban the gruesome practice of leaving babies who survived failed abortions to die.

Obama's Extremism:  Obama's problem isn't his temperament, but the unsustainable exertions necessary to attempt to square his reasonable-sounding rhetoric on abortion with the extremism of his record.  Asked by Pastor Rick Warren when a baby gets rights, Obama said, "I'm absolutely convinced that there is a moral and ethical element to this issue."  This is a crashing banality couched as thoughtfulness.  If Obama is so sensitive to the moral element of the issue, why does he want to eliminate any existing restrictions on the procedure?

A little too glib.
 Obama's Abortion Position?  It's a One-liner.  Barack Obama had made real strides in defusing the abortion issue with pro-life voters as late as last week. ... But Mr. Obama eroded many of those gains last Saturday when he told Pastor Rick Warren during a nationally televised forum that deciding when the rights of personhood should be extended to the unborn was "above my pay grade."

That's Above My Pay Grade.  Such a response by a candidate for President of the United States gives insight into his personal values and the core of his leadership qualities.  It also means one of three things:  One, Obama hasn't decided for himself when life begins.  Two, Obama believes life begins somewhere along the way, after conception.  Or, three, Obama believes that life begins at conception.  Let's look at each, in turn, and consider how we may have gotten some insight into how Barack Obama thinks, what his values are, and how candid he is when speaking to the American people.

The Case Against Obama — In His Own Words:  In the Saddleback Church forum last week, in response to Rev. Rick Warren's question, "At what point does a baby get human rights in your view?" Obama responded:  "Well, uh, you know, I think that whether you're looking at it from a theological perspective or, uh, a scientific perspective, uh, answering that question with specificity, uh, you know, is, is, uh, above my pay grade."

Obama's Abortion Distortion.  In March 2003, registered nurse Jill Stanek submitted a statement to the Illinois Senate Health and Human Services committee in which she reported that infants who survived abortions at her Oak Lawn hospital were sometimes "taken to the Soiled Utility Room and left alone to die."  Stanek was lobbying the committee to approve the Born-Alive Infants Protection Act of 2002, which would have recognized any infant born alive after an abortion as a human being deserving legal protection.  Barack Obama, then the committee chairman, defeated the bill with his fellow Democrats in a 6-4 party-line vote.

Life Lies:  Sen. Obama is currently misleading people about what he voted against, specifically claiming that the bill he voted against in his committee lacked "neutrality" language on Roe v. Wade.  The bill did contain this language.  He even participated in the unanimous vote to put it in.

Obama's Infanticide Disgrace.  As a state legislator, Obama spoke out against, and voted down, a bill that would have explicitly extended legal protections to born-alive premature infants.  In other words, he cast a vote against banning infanticide. Making matters worse — if such a thing is possible — the explanation Obama has peddled over the years to justify his vote has recently been exposed as untrue.

Obama Calls Pro-Lifers Liars.  Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is harshly accusing a pro-life group of "lying" about his record on abortion as a Illinois state senator, despite compelling evidence on the pro-lifers' side.

Fathering More Lies.  Nurse Jill Stanek said that at her hospital "abortions" were repeatedly performed by inducing the live birth of a pre-viable fetus and then leaving it to die.  When she made her report, the attorney general said that no law had been broken.  That's why legislators proposed a bill to fill the gap.  Obama did not want the gap filled.  He did not want pre-viable fetuses/infants to have any legal protection.

Barack Obama's abortion crime and cover-up.  Ever wonder how Barack Obama, the great healer, ended up with a more radical record on abortion than Sen. Hillary Clinton or even the zealots at NARAL-Pro-Choice America?  It comes down to the "Born-Alive Infant Protection Act."  The bill was designed to provide legal protection for babies born alive during an abortion.  Babies like the ones ex-nurse Jill Stanek saw discarded and left for dead at her hospital.

Obama's falsehood:  Regardless of the reasons for his vote, Mr. Obama cannot say that his critics are lying.  He did oppose a bill virtually identical to the one unanimously passed in the U.S. Senate.  And now, five years later, he might end up paying a political price for that decision.

Obama Would Let Her Die.  I can't help but ask the question:  "Why does Obama pursue such outcomes?"  Perhaps it's because neither of his children have had anything but a beautiful life, and a pleasurable home to experience.  But do handicapped children deserve less from life because of some mental or physical limitation? … Last week, Barack Obama called those of us who have told the truth about his position on this issue "liars."  He said that we were misrepresenting this issue and he attempted to claim confusion and "multiple bills" and "procedures" to cloud the issue of his voting record.  All of which itself was a lie.

The 'Swiftboating' Charge and Infanticide: A Guilty Diversion.  Barack Obama was the only member of the Illinois Senate to speak against a bill that would have granted legal protection to already-born babies still alive after a failed abortion.  He used his power to prevent those innocent babies from having the best chance to survive.  The evidence speaks for itself.  It doesn't get much colder than that.

Why Obama Really Voted For Infanticide:  There wasn't any question about what was happening.  The abortions were going wrong.  The babies weren't cooperating.  They wouldn't die as planned.  Or, as Illinois state senator Barack Obama so touchingly put it, there was "movement or some indication that, in fact, they're not just coming out limp and dead."  No, Senator.  They wouldn't go along with the program.  They wouldn't just come out limp and dead.  They were coming out alive.  Born alive.

Obama:  110% Pro-Choice.  Obama more than earns his pay as a Democrat by advancing pro-abortion certitudes, based on what he now admits is a doubt that he can't bother himself to study up on, and by treating abortion as his first legislative priority.  "The first thing I'd do as President is sign the Freedom of Choice Act," he assured the Planned Parenthood Action Fund in 2007.  That Act would impose an abortion-on-demand regime on every state in the country, sweeping away all existing regulations.

Obama More Pro-Choice Than NARAL.  Sen. Barack Obama (D.-Ill.) portrays himself as a thoughtful Democrat who carefully considers both sides of controversial issues, but his radical stance on abortion puts him further left on that issue than even NARAL Pro-Choice America.  In 2002, as an Illinois legislator, Obama voted against the Induced Infant Liability Act, which would have protected babies that survived late-term abortions.

Obama's Born-Alive Cover-Up.  Several of the purported refutations are themselves, at best, misdirections.  One of the most easily verifiable is Obama's continued insistence that he voted against the Illinois Born Alive Act because it lacked an abortion neutrality clause.  Remarkable.  Obama now has unequivocally repeated this falsehood several times.  Is he that confident nobody in the mainstream media will call him on it?

The Obama Debate Every American Should See:  The most telling debate Barack Obama ever had was not with John McCain but Patrick O'Malley, who served with Obama in the Illinois Senate and engaged Obama in a colloquy every American should read.  The Obama-O'Malley debate was a defining moment for Obama because it dealt with such a fundamental issue:  The state's duty to protect the civil rights of the young and disabled.

Palin: Obama "Atrocious" On Abortion.  GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin described her rival Barack Obama's radical position on abortion as "absolutely atrocious" on Laura Ingraham's radio program Thursday [10/9/2008].  Palin specifically attacked Obama for his votes against the Born Alive Infant Protection Act as an Illinois State Senator.

Obama's Abortion Stance Hurts Blacks, Say Pro-Life Experts.  Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) may be riding what seems to be a perfect wave toward the Democratic presidential nomination, but some African-Americans say his pro-abortion stance make him a danger to the black community.  "Between 1882 and 1962, 3,446 blacks were lynched," says Rev. Clenard H. Childress Jr. on his Web site, blackgenocide.org.  "That number is surpassed in less than three days by abortion."  More than 1,400 African-American children are aborted each day in the United States, said Childress.

Obama's Infanticide Lie:  Obama has repeatedly claimed he would have voted for Illinois' version of the Born Alive Infant Protection Act (BAIPA) had it included language to protect abortion rights guaranteed by Roe v. Wade, as the federal version of the bill did, which sailed through the U.S. Senate 98-0.  Contrary to what Obama has said, forgotten records from the Illinois Senate archives show Obama did vote against a BAIPA bill that included such a neutrality clause virtually identical to the federal bill.  "We have a smoking gun committee report," said National Right to Life Committee Legislative Counsel Susan Muskett.

Emperor Obama's Clothes are Visible and Scary.  Obama plans — as his first official act, he told Planned Parenthood — to sign the Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA).  If he signs FOCA, he will eliminate virtually all federal, state and local restrictions on abortion.  Further, he would nominate Supreme Court judges who will uphold Roe v. Wade, and the left-dominated Congress would confirm them easily.

Obama's Promise May Doom Conservative Dems.  [Scroll down slowly]  Obama stuck his neck out even further regarding abortion and his support of FOCA (Freedom Of Choice Act).  Some might say, FOCA is the big enchilada which has the potential to put many socially conservative Democrats on the hot seat.  FOCA is a radical bill that would have an impact on health care providers, pharmacies, pharmacists and legislation which is widely popular with the American people, including laws like parental notification (for minors seeking abortions) and bans on horrific procedures, such as partial-birth abortion.

Academics To Hold Obama Supporters Accountable.  Called The Moral Accountability Project, the site features President Barack Obama's complete record on the life issues.  It also documents his promises to fund embryonic stem cell research, enact the Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA), which would overturn every existing abortion restriction in the country and to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act, which protects states against being forced to recognize same-sex marriages contracted in other states.  The Web site will also feature news updates and articles about the president's decisions on these issues.

The Legal Consequences of the Freedom of Choice Act:  By banning state laws that in any way "interfere with" the choice of abortion before viability — a more abortion-protective standard than exists under present law and a central feature of the bill — FOCA would materially expand abortion rights in several ways.  It would invalidate state laws that attempt to persuade women to choose not to have abortions by providing them with information about alternatives to abortion, about the ability of pregnant women to receive state assistance for support of their child, and about the condition and stage of development of the child at the point in pregnancy at which the abortion is sought.

Gallup:  Majority of Americans Disapprove of the Reversal of Mexico City Policy.  58% of Americans disapprove of President Obama's executive order lifting the ban on funding of overseas family planning groups that provide abortions, while only 35% of Americans approve.

Obama Speech at National Prayer Breakfast: Insincere Theological Farce .  Glancing down at his notes every few seconds Mr. Obama managed to get through what looked like the worst drudgery of his day at the National Prayer Breakfast. ... There has been little to nothing of Obama's policy that could even remotely be declared as biblical.  When he did use a quote from Proverbs it served to bring into question, yet, once again the lost lives of fifty four million unborn children whose silent voices were not, nor ever will be heard.  He said "To answer the responsibility we're given in Proverbs to speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves?"  Nothing said by Mr. Obama after that, could possibly mitigate the obvious hypocrisy in his words.

Taxpayer Funds for International Abortion, Obama Priority One?  One of many Bush Administration policies being immediately overturned by the new Obama cabal is the existing ban on the use of federal tax dollars to promote and fund abortions here and abroad.  Obama planned to sign an executive order pouring US taxpayer funds into abortion practices all over the world on his first day in office.  But as the March for Life on Washington DC was scheduled for January 21st, he decided to delay the signing of this peculiar executive order for a couple of days.

Obama's abortion war.  No sooner had President Obama taken the oath of office than he betrayed two of his campaign promises.  In pledging to unite us, not divide us, he promised to find common ground on cultural issues, especially to search for ways to reduce the number of abortions. ... Only three days into a new administration, the president of "hope" and "change" revealed that, in this enormous matter at least, he will not be a new leader who will work towards a kinder, gentler, more unified America.  Instead he is immediately exacerbating old wounds in the body politic:  He is simply a wolf in sheep's clothing.

Sources:  Obama may quickly reverse abortion policy.  Obama's second full day as president falls on the 36th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion in the United States.  The sources said Obama may use the occasion to reverse the "Mexico City policy" reinstated in 2001 by Bush that prohibits U.S. money from funding international family planning groups that promote abortion or provide information, counseling or referrals about abortion services.

Obama to Lift Ban on Funding for Groups Providing Abortions Overseas.  President Obama will issue an executive order on Thursday reversing the Bush administration policy that bans the use of federal dollars by non-govermental organizations that discuss or provide abortions outside of the United States.  Obama will sign the executive order on the 36th anniversary of the landmark Roe v. Wade Supreme Court ruling that legalized abortion in all 50 states.

Pelosi's Abortion Stimulus Package.  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Ca.) will bring her "Kill the Children" economic stimulus plan to the floor of the House this week for a likely vote on Thursday [1/29/2009].  On ABC's "This Week" last Sunday, Pelosi justified the inclusion of expanded federal funding for abortions as part of an economic stimulus plan on the grounds that reducing the number of children being born would help stimulate the economy.

Nancy Pelosi's neo-eugenics.  Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the US House of Representatives, is no economist, judging by her comments made to ABC's George Stephanopoulus, in asserting population growth in the US would be a drag on economic growth.  Population growth usually is an economic stimulant, especially in developed countries.  It always is a stimulant in developed democracies with private property rights and free markets.  Otherwise we wouldn't have a consumer society.

Freedom of Choice Act: Facts & Myths.  The Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA) is the most radical piece of abortion legislation in United States history.  Obama has stated that this is one piece of legislation he wants to get pushed through the 111th Congress.  FOCA would literally do an end run on all existing controls concerning abortion in this country. ... FOCA goes far beyond even Roe in allowing and promoting abortion.

Cloaking Extremism:  Obama and Same-Sex Marriage.  In the 2008 campaign and now that he is in the White House, President Barack Obama has made no bones about his support for the most extreme pro-abortion policies ever espoused by a U.S. president.  While certain individuals have attempted to make the case that Obama will actually be "pro-life" or will work to reduce the incidence of abortion, he has already begun to make appointments, fashion policies, and pledge himself to commitments for more such actions that give the lie to this cover story.

HHS Leader Sebelius Brings A Radical Abortion Record.  Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius is being reported as the front-runner as President Barack Obama's appointment for Health And Human Services Secretary.  Although Ms. Sebelius was touted by The New York Times as a bipartisan politician, she comes with a strong pro-abortion record.  Not only has Ms. Sebelius — governor in a battleground state on the abortion issue — repeatedly vetoed any measures that would limit or regulate abortion that came across her desk, she also has ties to an abortionist with a history of performing risky abortions in the third trimester of pregnancy.

Abortion foes vow to fight a Sebelius nomination.  National anti-abortion groups promise a vigorous fight if President Barack Obama nominates Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius as U.S. health and human services secretary.  Abortion foes said Friday [2/27/2009] an important issue is a reception Sebelius once had with a late-term abortion provider who's now facing criminal charges.  They also said Sebelius' abortion-rights views are "radical."

More about Governor Sebelius and the abortion issue.

Poll:  Americans Oppose Obama's First Two Executive Orders.  President Obama has garnered widespread support for his early actions in office, but Americans strongly oppose the commander-in-chief's first two executive orders — allowing federal funding for overseas abortions and closing Guantanamo — according to a Gallup poll released Tuesday.

Obama's Decision on Overseas Abortion Funding Rated Least Popular.  A new poll shows a majority of Americans disapprove of President Barack Obama's decision to repeal a ban on federal funding for groups that promote or provide abortions overseas.

Obama as Hitler.  This week President Obama exercised for the first time a policy decision that shares a trait held in common with Adolf Hitler.  The headline was leaked late in the Friday afternoon news cycle so that as few people as possible would pay attention, but here's the crux of a very real problem:  President Obama is moving policy on public health into the direction of doctors being forced to act against their conscience.  (For liberals educated in public schools, a conscience is that little voice inside you that used to inform you as to what was right or wrong.)  President Obama wants them performing abortions, whether they believe it to be an immoral thing or not.

Obama to rescind Bush abortion rule, official says.  President Barack Obama plans to repeal a Bush administration rule that has become a flash point in the debate over a doctor's right not to participate in abortions.  The regulation, instituted in the last days of the Bush administration, strengthened job protections for doctors and nurses who refuse to provide a medical service because of moral qualms.

Obama's Choice of Sebelius Heats Up the Pro-life Battle.  President Barack Obama has selected a pro-abortion Catholic governor, who has been told by her bishop not to present herself for communion, to head the Department of Health and Human Services.  Writing last year in his diocesan newspaper, Bishop Joseph Naumann of Kansas City, Kansas, discussed a meeting with Gov. Kathleen Sebelius where he told her "that someday she's going to have to stand before God and account for her public service."

Sebelius' Abortion Camouflage.  Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius, the nation's most pro-abortion governor, is President Obama's new choice to lead the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the largest of the government agencies and the one handling most of the nation's social conservative policy issues.  Like President Obama, Mrs. Sebelius has embraced pro-life rhetoric in an attempt to camouflage her radical record on the abortion issue.

Sebelius to face questions over abortion.  Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius (D), President Obama's choice to head the Department of Health and Human Services, has touched off criticism over her association with a Kansas abortion provider.  Sebelius vetoed a late-term aborition law in 2008, and in 2007 she held a reception at the Kansas governor's mansion that included Dr. George Tiller, a Wichita doctor whose clinic provided late-term abortions.  Tiller was under investigation for violating that state's restrictions on some forms of abortion.

The Abortion Administration.  In his first week in office, President Obama issued an executive order overturning the Reagan-era Mexico City regulations, which had prohibited American foreign aid from going to organizations that finance overseas abortions.  Just a few weeks later, the Gallup organization revealed that the executive order was the single most unpopular action taken by the president during his honeymoon period.

Ho-Hum Horror.  The case of Kermit Gosnell reached the newspapers just a few days before the 38th anniversary of Roe v. Wade.  President Obama did not mention Gosnell in his official statement celebrating the anniversary.  But the case sheds more light on Roe's import than the statement did.  Obama did not refer to the word "abortion," preferring instead to discuss "reproductive freedom" and the "fundamental principle" that "government should not intrude on private family matters."  The stories about Gosnell were a little less abstract.  They told of a clinic where dirty instruments spread venereal disease, cats roamed and defecated freely, and some patients died.  The state government conducted essentially no oversight; administrations of both parties wanted to keep abortion as free from governmental intrusion as possible.

Obama lied, babies died.  It's hard to comprehend that intelligent people believe Obama speaks the truth.  A simple question:  If an individual encourages coldly tossing a barely breathing infant into a laundry room to die and uses the upholding of the original intent to kill the baby as an excuse, is it logical to assume such a person has a high regard for truth?  Barack Obama supports killing the unborn and if by chance the infant should happen to "burden the original decision of the woman and the physician to induce labor and perform an abortion" by refusing to die, Barry disagrees with providing a helpless being medical care.  Plain and simple, Obama is cold and heartless.

Obama and His Pro-Life Apologists.  President Obama knows that an unborn baby is human.  He knows that the blood shed by the abortionist's knife is human blood, that the bones broken are human bones.  He does not deny that the baby whom nurse Jill Stanek discovered gasping for breath in a soiled linen bin after a failed attempt to end her life by abortion, was a human baby.  Even in opposing the Illinois Born-Alive Infants Protection Act, which was designed to assure that such babies were rescued if possible or at least given comfort care while they died, Barack Obama did not deny the humanity of the child.  What he denied, and continues to deny, is the fundamental equality of that child — equality with those of us who are safely born and accepted into the human community.

The Supreme Court and fundamental freedoms.  Although he is absorbed in extraordinarily extensive and imminent problems, President Obama, I hope, will find just an hour to look at, in a sonogram, developing human beings before they are born.  Then he might revoke his promise to join many congressional Democrats in supporting the Freedom of Choice Act that annuls many states' restrictions on abortion, such as informed consent, parental involvement and state-funding laws.  If this is his first experience with what a sonogram reveals, he may, as happened to a very pro-choice law professor I know, take a little more time to see more of those unmistakable lives.

Does Obama respect conscience?  The Bush administration last month announced a new regulation protecting health-care providers who refuse to perform abortions or other medical procedures that violate their conscience.  Pro-choice groups have cried foul, arguing that the last-minute regulation is a politically motivated attack on a woman's right to choose and will restrict women's access to abortion and contraceptives.  The incoming Obama administration has signaled it wants to repeal the rule.

Pro-Abortion Groups Post 'Wish List' on Obama's Web Site.  A coalition of pro-abortion groups, including Planned Parenthood, the National Organization for Women, the Guttmacher Institute, NARAL Pro-Choice America, and the American Civil Liberties Union, have posted a reproductive health wish list on the Obama Transition Team Web site, change.gov.  The list outlines the steps the groups think the next president should take during his first 100 days in office to promote and fund abortion in America and around the globe.

10 Concerns about Barack Obama:  (#9.) Barack Obama is to the left of Hillary Clinton and NARAL on the issue of life.  As a state senator in Illinois, Barack Obama voted against the Induced Infant Liability Act, a law that would have protected babies if they survived an attempted abortion and were delivered alive.

Can Obama Win the "Values Voter?"  [Obama] is the most extremist pro-choicer ever to get this close to the presidency.  His stand-alone votes against bills protecting newborn babies who survive abortions were horrible.  He calls abortion a "safety net" and vowed to Planned Parenthood in July 2007 that the "first thing" he would do as president is sign the Freedom of Choice Act, which would nationalize abortion policy and overturn all the perfectly reasonable state-level restrictions on abortion by bipartisan legislatures throughout America.  Then there are Obama's revealing statements on the stump — such as how he would hate to see his daughters get pregnant out-of-wedlock and "punished with a baby."

Barack and the Bishops.  Most shocking, and of special concern to the bishops, is the fear that FOCA [Freedom of Choice Act] would eliminate the freedom of conscience of doctors, nurses, and healthcare workers — Catholic, non-Catholic, you name it — to not participate in abortion procedures at their hospitals.  The bishops noted that this would be an attack on Americans' free exercise of religion.

New president, more abortions.  Our new president-elect has not equivocated in his reverence for abortion rights.  Speaking at a Planned Parenthood event on July 17, 2007, Barack Obama pledged that his first act as president would be to sign the Freedom of Choice Act.  It is the most radical attack yet on the deep beliefs of millions of American pro-lifers.

Faith-Based Hospitals Could Close If Obama Signs Freedom of Choice Act.  Now that Barack Obama has been elected president, pro-life and pro-abortion groups are waiting to see if he will keep his campaign promise to sign the Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA) into law and if faith-based hospitals and health care facilities will be forced to perform abortions or risk losing federal funding — a loss that could result in some health care providers closing their doors.

Obama vs. Pope Benedict.  President-elect Barack Obama's plan to pass the Freedom of Choice Act is setting up a showdown with the Vatican.  "The first thing I will do as president is sign the Freedom of Choice Act," he said at an address before Planned Parenthood on July 17, 2007.  And if he does, it will trigger a harsh response from Pope Benedict XVI, as well as a political revolt among practicing American Catholics.

Obama's Holy Hell:  If President-elect Barack Obama goes through with his campaign pledge to sign into law the Freedom of Choice Act, holy hell is going to break loose.  FOCA may be the most radical social legislation in decades.  It seeks to strip every last restraint from abortion — outlawing states' requirements for waiting periods, informed consent or parental consent; preventing health and safety regulation of abortion clinics and abortionists — and even ending restrictions on partial-birth abortion.

Obama's abortion conundrum:  Pro-choice groups in America are lobbying President-elect Barack Obama's transition team to remove all restrictions on abortion instituted by President Bush and the Republican led-Congresses over the last eight years.  A 55-page lengthy policy paper, "Advancing Reproductive Rights and Health in a New Administration," was sent to the transition team and posted to its Change.gov Web site this week.  It was ripped from the page in less than a day.

Obama's New 'Council on Women' Seen As Vehicle to Promote Feminist Agenda.  President Barack Obama on Wednesday created a new bureaucracy to deal with women's health, domestic violence and economic security. But some conservatives fear the new council will actively promote the feminist agenda in the government. ... Although the president did not say exactly what issues the council would address, the group is likely to promote feminist causes such as expanded litigation and the abortion rights, said Janice Crouse, a senior fellow at Concerned Women for America, a conservative advocacy group.

Sebelius' Pro-Choice Incoherence:  Obama has begun providing federal funds for international groups that promote or perform abortions overseas.  He has moved to weaken conscience protections for health care professionals.  And he has chosen the most radical possible option on the use of embryonic stem cells — a free license for researchers, with boundaries set only by the National Institutes of Health.  Taxpayers will now likely fund not only the use of "spare" embryos from in vitro fertilization, but also human lives produced and ended for the sole purpose of scientific exploitation.

Murder, Inc.  Usually when a president picks a friend of a big but controversial industry to run a federal department that regulates that same industry, some eyebrows are raised.  The press wonders how independent the nominee could be.  Senators fret over the long financial relationship between the nominee and the controversial industry.  In time, the White House quietly withdraws the nomination and insiders chortle that the administration never should have made such a foolish nomination. ... So we are wondering why President Obama nominated Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius to be the next Secretary of Health and Human Services.

The Interrogation Memos and the 'Moral Bearings' of President Obama.  [Scroll down]  It appears that Obama lost his moral bearings years ago.  After all, with a moral compass in the form of Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Obama was pointed to the far, far left.  That may or may not explain Obama's voting record with respect to the gruesome, immoral practice of partial birth abortion — it just might be that the President's conscience has been seared to the point of putting politics over innocent life.

Obama's Ethical Toggle Switch.  Obama doesn't know when "a baby gets human rights."  Based on what he doesn't know, he supports abortion, not to mention the denial of medical attention to a live aborted fetus.  In short, he assumes an affirmative ethical stance (pro abortion) based on what he says he doesn't know, namely, when a baby's life begins.

Obama's Moral Slide Rule.  In President Barack Obama's moral and constitutional universe, unfettering abortion and coddling terrorists trump innocent life.  But most Americans reject his anti-life calculations.  Candidate Obama promised Planned Parenthood that he would "go on offense" by signing the "Freedom of Choice Act" as his first act as president.  It would put millions of additional lives at risk by eliminating all federal and state regulations of abortion, including bans on late term and partial birth abortion.  If these barbaric procedures are not torture, nothing is.

Hidden Within ObamaCare, an Abortion Mandate.  Government-owned health care will place bureaucrats in Washington in charge of your health care options.  This is wrong.  Health care decisions must be made by you and your doctor.  However, there is another very serious concern with health care reform plans in Congress, especially the plan being offered in the House.  It will lead to mandated coverage of abortion, forcing employers and insurance providers to cover abortion as a health care procedure and subsidizing abortions with the tax dollars of pro-life Americans who have grave moral objections.

Obama's First 100 Days:  The anti-life plan is now established.  [President Obama] has a 100 percent approval rating from NARAL Pro-Choice America, the U.S.'s leading pro-abortion organization.  That rating is based on a record of consistently voting against the unborn.  Obama has told Planned Parenthood he regards so-called choice as "a fundamental issue" on which he will not yield.  He voted against an Induced Infant Liability Act in the Illinois legislature in 2002; this would have given legal protection and medical assistance to babies born from botched abortions.  He also voted against banning partial-birth abortion in the Senate in October 2007.

White House praises defeat of abortion amendment.  White House officials are praising the defeat of an anti-abortion proposal in Mississippi that would have defined life as beginning at conception.

Obama Is No Closet Centrist.  After reviewing many of Obama's personnel decisions, it's clear that Obama intends to be anything but a centrist on social issues.  Many of Obama's social policy advisors are leading figures in the abortion industry and heavy hitters of the homosexual lobby.  White House Communications Director Ellen Moran is a former executive director of Emily's List, the leading abortion-focused political action committee.  And Dawn Johnsen, former legal director of NARAL Pro-Choice America, recently was appointed to Obama's Justice Department Review Team.


Obama opposes the Catholic church and pushes for government-mandated contraception and sterilization:

One thing should be plainly apparent now:  Abortion is more important to the Democrats than either the Catholic church or the Constitution.  I'm not a Catholic, nor will I ever be, but I'm not going to stand by quietly while a tyrant like Barack H. Obama (a/k/a Barry Soetoro) shreds the Constitution.

Related topic:  Is Obama a Christian?


Is Obama Trying To Replace The Pope?  The First Amendment forbids "prohibiting the free exercise" of religion.  But a pontificating President Obama would do just that in forcing Catholics to provide contraception and sterilization.

NOW President: It's 'Poppycock' to Say Catholic Institutions Have a Conscience.  National Organization for Women President Terry O'Neill says that it is "poppycock" for America's Roman Catholic bishops to say that Catholic institutions have a conscience.  "The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' claims that institutions can have consciences — that's poppycock," said O'Neill.

Religious intolerance, California-style.  The Obama administration proved Friday that California laws continue to have national influence.  But this time, the pattern has wrought a serious violation of the First Amendment protection for religious liberty.  Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is sticking with a rule that mandates insurance coverage for sterilization and contraceptives, including some that cause abortions.  But the rule's exemption for religious employers is so narrow as to have raised the ire of religious leaders, organizations and pundits across the political spectrum.

The Catholic Church is fighting mad with the Obama Administration.  The Health and Human Services Department recently announced it will require all employers (with few exceptions) to provide health insurance to their employees which includes subsidized contraception, sterilization and coverage for abortion-inducing drugs.  This meant that religious institutions, like Catholic colleges and hospitals, or other Christian institutions would be compelled to violate their conscience by cooperating with that which they believe to be wrong.

A Clash of Conscience.  The decision last week by Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to reject the appeals of scores of religious leaders and retain a very narrow "religious" exemption from Obamacare's so-called contraception mandate has ignited an uproar among Catholic leaders, as well it should — because it's hard to fathom a government dictate more offensive than this one.

Catholic Church Rejects Surrender Terms from Obama.  My Catholic priest, Father Larry Swink, delivered a homily on Sunday that I told him would make headlines.  In the toughest sermon I have ever heard from a pulpit, he attacked the Obama Administration as evil, even demonic, and warned of religious persecution ahead.  What was also newsworthy about the sermon was that he cited The Washington Post in agreement -- not on the subject of the Obama Administration being evil, but on the matter of its abridgment of the constitutional right to freedom of religion.

Contraceptive mandate could face tough sledding in Supreme Court.  The Supreme Court and the Obama administration, already headed for a face-off in March over the constitutionality of the healthcare law, appear to be on another collision course over whether church-run schools, universities, hospitals and charities must provide free contraceptives to their students and employees.  The dispute stems from one of the more popular parts of the new healthcare law:  its requirement that all health plans provide "preventive services" for free.  That category includes vaccines and such routine screenings as cholesterol checkups and mammograms.  Starting this year, it also includes coverage of birth control pills, IUDs and other contraceptives.

The Editor asks...
 What will the next incremental change bring about?  Will "preventive services" include sterilization of the poor?  Abortion on demand?  Lobotomies for political opponents?

The State Ruling the Church:  [Scroll down]  No, the real issue is not birth control or the provision of it.  The central issue is government intimidation of and control over religious institutions.  It is government's overriding of the consciences of Catholics and members of other denominations who oppose abortifacients and sterilization.  The 2013 deadline for Catholic institutions to conform to the health care mandate is the proverbial governmental foot in the door for controlling religious institutions — actually, for controlling all people of faith who disagree with the administration's stance toward abortion.  For the truth of the matter is that the U.S. government's intrusion into religious organizations, if not halted at this stage, will continue to press even harder for even more sacrifices of conscience.

First, They Came for the Catholics.  This weekend, Catholic bishops informed parishioners of the recent White House edict forcing religious hospitals, schools, charities and other health and social service providers to provide "free" abortifacient pills, sterilizations and contraception on demand in their insurance plans — even if it violates their moral consciences and the teachings of their churches.  NARAL, NOW, Ms. Magazine and the Feminist Majority Foundation all cheered the administration's abuse of the Obamacare law to ram abortion down pro-life medical professionals' throats.

WH: 'No Constitutional Rights Issue' in Forcing Catholics to Act Against Their Faith.  White House Press Secretary Jay Carney says there are no "constitutional rights issues" involved in a regulation issued by the administration that requires all health-care plans in the United States to cover sterilizations and all FDA-approved contraceptives, including those that induce abortions.

Obama plays his Catholic allies for fools.  Both radicalism and maliciousness are at work in Obama's decision — an edict delivered with a sneer.  It is the most transparently anti-Catholic maneuver by the federal government since the Blaine Amendment was proposed in 1875 — a measure designed to diminish public tolerance of Romanism, then regarded as foreign, authoritarian and illiberal.  Modern liberalism has progressed to the point of adopting the attitudes and methods of 19th-century Republican nativists.  The implications of Obama's choice will take years to sort through.

Religious Liberty Can Still Trump ObamaCare.  Religious freedom is a core American principle, one that our Founding Fathers enshrined in the Constitution and called on future generations of leaders to preserve and protect.  Despite our deeply rooted heritage of religious liberty, the Obama administration recently issued a mandate under ObamaCare that will require church-affiliated organizations to offer their workers private-insurance coverage without out-of-pocket charges for birth control, something they are morally opposed to.  In doing so, the administration ignored efforts by numerous faith-based organizations to be granted an exemption on religious grounds.

ObamaCare Abortions: Will Catholics Vote for Him A Second Time?  During the last presidential election, Catholics voted by a margin of 55-45% for the most pro-death President in history.  Of course, he started out by covering up the crucifix at Georgetown before delivering a speech, so as not to offend Muslims or Atheists, proceeded to declare that "America is not a Christian nation", then bowed before a Saudi king.  Therefore, should we be surprised when this secular humanist, pro-abortion President now attacks religious freedom by backing regulations which force Catholic hospitals — against their will and the tenets of their religion — to fund and/or even perform abortions or risk sanctions and closure?

Civil Disobedience in Obama's Second Term.  Some of Barack Obama's useful idiots on the Catholic center/left say that his decree forcing religious organizations to pay for contraceptives amounts to a betrayal.  No, it is not.  Candidate Obama had telegraphed his plans to discriminate against the religious.  Were Cardinal Mahony and company too busy burbling over "hope and change" to pay attention?  You made Obama's bed; now lie in it.

A Catholic Case Against Barack.  Thrice in the Illinois legislature, Obama helped block a bill that was designed solely to protect the life of infants already born, and outside the womb, who had miraculously survived the attempt to kill them during an abortion.  Thrice, Obama voted to let doctors and nurses allow these tiny human beings die of neglect and be tossed out with the medical waste.  How can a man who purports to be a Christian justify this?

Obama: The One, True Faith.  It's hard to believe that Obama falls to his knees for anyone, but apparently he does.  As long as they aren't Catholic.

The Audacity of Obama's Secularism:  Obama's Fifth Column within the Church also stands ready to help.  The National Catholic Reporter, to take one example, has run a sympathetic editorial about his HHS mandate.  And even ostensible opponents of it on the Catholic left and center already reveal the white flag near at hand.  In the last few days, they have been blubbering weakly that the issue is not "contraception" — a subject on which they agree with the president — but the etiquette of partisan coordination and team play.

Obamacare vs. the Catholics.  In Virginia, Catholics heard from Bishop Paul Loverde, who wrote, "I am absolutely convinced that an unprecedented and very dangerous line has been crossed."  In Phoenix, Bishop Thomas Olmsted wrote, "We cannot — we will not — comply with this unjust law."  In Pittsburgh, Bishop David Zubik wrote that President Obama had told Catholics, "To Hell with your religious beliefs." ... It was a remarkable moment, in part because despite their stern reputation, most Catholic bishops are not terribly conservative.  They tend to be politically liberal and socially cautious.

The Obama Administration Is In For An Enormous Battle With The Catholic Church.  The Obama Administration made a huge political error in its recent decision to compel religious institutions to buy health insurance policies that cover things they believe are inherently sinful — like contraception, sterilization, and drugs that may act as abortifacients.  Over the past two weekends thousands of priests read out a letter to their parishes promising that the Church "cannot -- and will not comply with this unjust law."

Three Things Everyone Should Know about the HHS Mandate.  [#1]  It's an abortifacient mandate; not just a "contraceptive mandate."  The HHS rule requires large employers to provide insurance for free sterilizations, abortion-inducing drugs, and artificial contraceptives.  Our side would do well to refer to it as the "abortifacient mandate."  [#2]  The religious exemption is absolutely meaningless.

Obama: Our Henry VIII.  The administration is seeking to coerce Catholics to act against their consciences on two fronts:  on sterilization, contraceptives and abortion, and on the definition of marriage.  Obamacare regulations proposed by the Department of Health and Services on Aug. 1 would require every private health plan in America to cover sterilizations as well as all Food and Drug Administration-approved contraceptives, including "emergency contraceptives."  These include drugs such as ulipristal, which can cause abortions both before and after an embryo implants in a mother's womb.

EWTN Files Suit to Block Contraception Mandate.  Eternal Word Television Network filed a lawsuit today [2/9/2012] in U.S. District Court in Birmingham, Ala., seeking to halt the federal government's imposition of its contraception mandate and to have the court declare the federal rule unconstitutional.  The lawsuit names Kathleen Sebelius, the secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and other federal agencies, as defendants.

Abortion Haunting Obama.  A coalition of Catholic Bishops, concerned about that possibility, sent a letter to Congress and the White House in mid-July demanding that health care reform "excludes abortion coverage or any other provisions that threaten the sanctity of life."  Religious conservatives aren't the only political demographic uneasy with the abortion implications of Obama's health care revamp, either.  In late June, about two dozen House Democrats sent a letter to Nancy Pelosi pledging opposition to any reform bill that includes abortion coverage.

Dangerous Negotiations Over Abortion.  America's Catholic bishops are being used in a negotiating ploy that could lead to enactment of Obamacare and to federal funding of abortion.

The Gospel According to Obama:  [Scroll down]  Our quaint Constitution grants special autonomy to religious institutions.  Accordingly, it would be a mockery of the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment if, for example, the Catholic Church were required by law to freely provide such "health-care services" (in secularist parlance) as contraception, sterilization, and pharmacological abortion — to which Catholicism is doctrinally opposed as a grave contravention of its teachings about the sanctity of life.  Ah.  But there would be no such Free Exercise violation if the institutions so mandated are deemed, by regulatory fiat, not religious.

Do Catholics Have Too Many Babies?  This is quite literally Congress making a law that interferes with the free exercise of religion.  This is not about the morality of contraception.  This is about the constitutionality of government coercion, coercion of religious institutions, coercion directly and profoundly prohibited by the Constitution itself.  The motivation for the coercion — that Catholics have too many babies — is reprehensible, and those in government who embrace that and are willing to use the power of government to resist that should be voted out of office.

Obama's war on the Catholic Church isn't just insensitive — it's un-American.  No Democratic president ever picked a fight with the Catholic Church in quite the way that Barack Obama has. ... Bishops, conservative and liberal, are now a single voice in their disgust with the administration's move.  The scale of Left-wing outrage is astonishing.  Even the columnist EJ Dionne — the Polly Toynbee of American Catholics — complained that "progressive" Catholics who had put their reputations on the line to support Obamacare had been "thrown under the bus."  Obama took 54 percent of the Catholic vote in 2008.  He will struggle to do that well again.

Next, the Amish must buy Chevy Volts.  The point is the same as the point about abortion — which by the way is next on the list of things the Church will be ordered to provide.  The point is the same about gay marriage, which priests will be forced to perform beginning with military chaplains.  The point is the destruction of Catholicism in the name of "freedom."  Liberals have targeted the Church for years because of all the major religions, it is the most centralized and most disciplined and the biggest threat to socialistic governments.

WSJ Almost Uniquely Raises Self-Insurance Issue in 'Immaculate Contraception' Editorial.  Showing just how out of touch the establishment press is with reality, an editorial this morning in the Wall Street Journal cutely titled "Immaculate Contraception" points out something most, including the Associated Press, have missed — that in a large number of cases involving many thousands of employees, there is no "insurance company" there to directly pay for these services.

Nancy Pelosi: Religious Freedom is an "Excuse" When It Comes to Women's Health.  House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said in a press conference Thursday [2/9/2012] that Republicans are using religious freedom as an excuse to change the law in a way that will be harmful to women's health.  This was in regard to the pushback against Catholic employees being required to cover birth control and abortifacients, which violates Church doctrine.

Religion burns Obama again.  It's a problem that previously has popped up in controversies over Israel, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright and even Obama's 2008 comments about people holding on to "guns and religion."  "It almost appears that every time he tries to steer clear of [the intersection of politics and religion], he steps right into it," said Susan MacManus, a professor of political science at the University of South Florida.  "He's trying not to call attention to it and then he finds himself in the middle of it."

Here's the simplest explanation:  Obama is incompetent.

Bigoted Barack, Red in Tooth and Clause.  To put the point even more directly, Obama does not want the Catholic poor to procreate.  Like Planned Parenthood's twisted foundress, Margaret Sanger, Obama is a chilly eugenicist at heart who fears a backwards America "punished" by the babies of unenlightened breeders.  China boasts a one-child policy; Obama's is more like a zero-child one.  Without a universally subsidized right to sterilization, contraception, and abortion via Obamacare, his Brave New World would falter and fail to materialize.

Condoms Are Only Part Of It.  Barack Obama thought he was only picking a fight with the Roman Catholic bishops.  He thought he could limit the argument over his health care mandate to a controversy over condoms.  He's getting a bigger fight than he imagined.

Obama's Anti-Religious Implosion.  Barack Obama may have just lost the election.  He has foolishly gone to war in an election year with tens of millions of Catholics, Protestants and Jews — Democrat, Republican and independent alike.  He has thrown down a radical feminist gauntlet and dared the Church to pick it up.  They've picked it up.

Nothing but Squid Ink.  The Obama administration Friday afternoon [2/10/2012] put into federal law the very regulation that drew objections from almost 200 Catholic bishops, some 50 religiously affiliated colleges and universities, 65 North American bishops of Orthodox churches, numerous other Jewish, Evangelical and Lutheran leaders, and even some liberals — and without changing so much as a comma.

Catholic Bishops: Obama's Revised Contraception and Abortion Pill Mandate 'Unacceptable'.  We just received information about this proposal for the first time this morning; we were not consulted in advance," the United States Council of Catholic Bishops announce in a statement released Friday evening [2/10/2012].  The bishops say that the "the law and remains a grave moral concern" and is "unacceptable."

Barack's Smug Assault on Freedom of Religion Isn't Just Anti-American -- It's Unforgivable.  The Democrat's sinister cabal, in typical Marxist fashion, clumsily politicizes yet another area of American freedom.  We observe, again, the inevitable, serious-as-a-heart-attack, yet trite socialist power-grab. ... But of extreme import to Barack is reminding everyone of the god that is government, with its inherent authority and right to do whatever it likes in the lives of Americans.

Wash Post Journalist: 'Maybe the Founders Were Wrong' to Guarantee Free Exercise of Religion.  Washington Post political writer Melinda Henneberger shockingly stated, Wednesday [2/8/2012], that "maybe the Founders were wrong" to guarantee religious liberty.  Henneberger appeared on Hardball to discuss the Obama administration's decision to force the Catholic Church to provide birth control in health care.

Why Dems keep stepping on healthcare landmines:  Somehow, the Democrats just can't seem to keep reproductive politics from hijacking the health care debate.  They almost lost the health reform bill a couple of times over abortion, as anti-abortion Democrats came close to derailing the bill during the 2009 House debate and then again during the final passage in 2010.  And now, the Obama administration's contraception rule has provoked such a massive fight with the Catholic Church and Republicans that it has been impossible for Democrats — or the media — to talk about anything else.

United We Stand for Religious Freedom.  Coverage of this story has almost invariably been framed as a conflict between the federal government and the Catholic bishops.  Zeroing in on the word "contraception," many commentators have taken delight in pointing to surveys about the use of contraceptives among Catholics, the message being that any infringement of religious freedom involves an idiosyncratic position that doesn't affect that many people.  Nothing could be further from the truth.

Obama uses insurance companies to impose church-state mandate.  President Barack Obama says he will bypass religious groups' opposition to a health insurance mandate by directing insurance companies to hand out free birth control services to employees of religious institutions.  "Religious organizations won't have to pay for these services and no religious institution will have to provide these services directly ... but women who work at these institutions will have access to free contraceptive services, just like other women," Obama said in a brief Friday statement at the White House.  After his statement, Obama walked out of the press room without taking any questions from reporters.

Obama's Act of Tyranny.  The edict President Barack Obama passed down today [2/10/2012] — that every health-care plan in America must pay for sterilizations and all FDA-approved contraceptives, including those that cause abortions — is an act of tyranny.

Americans — Including Catholics — Will Still Be Forced to Buy Coverage for Sterilization, Contraception, Abortifacients.  President Barack Obama announced today [2/10/2012] that "religious organizations" such as charities and hospitals will not be forced by the federal government to directly pay insurance premiums that cover sterilization, contraception and abortifacients but that their insurance providers must nonetheless provide those services free of charge to women insured by those organizations.

The Editor says...
 Barack H. Obama is an elected official, not a king.  He has no authority to require private businesses to give away products or services at no cost to the recipient.  President Obama should be impeached.

Obama goes Henry VIII on the church.  In essence, President Obama has embarked on the same usurpation of church authority as Henry VIII:  as his Friday morning faux-compromise confirms, the continued existence of a "faith-based institution" depends on submission to the doctrinal supremacy of the state.  "We will soon learn," wrote Dr. Albert Mohler of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, "just how much faith is left in faith-based institutions."

Obama tosses contraception under the bus.  Oh how they championed President Obama's effort to force Catholic bishops to violate church doctrine and provide contraception to their employees.  This is a run-up to making Catholics pay for abortions.

Contraception Accomodation: Who Pays For This?  If not the religious institutions... or the women... who pays for the contraceptive services?  The Obama administration claims it pays for itself...

Catholic and pro-life leaders slam White House 'compromise' on birth control mandate.  The White House announced today [2/10/2012] that, instead of forcing religious employers to pay for birth control, it will force insurance companies to offer the drugs free of charge to all women, no matter where they work.  The plan, put forward as a concession to freedom of religion, was immediately denounced by Catholic Rep. Chris Smith as fundamentally the exact same mandate.

Southern Baptist leader: If Obama mandate isn't changed, Christians will go to jail.  Dr. Richard Land, president of the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC), told LifeSiteNews.com "we will not comply" with the Dept. of Health and Human Services' mandate requiring religious institutions to cover abortifacient products such as Plan B, Ella, and the IUD.  "We want the law changed, or else we're going to write our letters from the Nashville jail, just like Dr. King wrote his from the Birmingham jail," Dr. Land said.

This week's grand prize for doublespeak goes to Nancy Pelosi.
 Pelosi: 'I am going to stick with fellow Catholics' in supporting Obama birth control mandate.  Even as the United States' Catholic bishops have launched an all-out campaign against the Obama administration's birth control mandate and urged their flocks to resistance, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi has invoked the support of "fellow Catholics" to justify her position in favor of the mandate. ... The comment came as at least 164 Catholic bishops across the country, representing over 90% of the country's dioceses, have blasted the mandate, in many cases ensuring that letters were read to the faithful during Sunday Mass calling the mandate unconstitutional and unjust.

National Right to Life: Obama mandate 'scam' paves way for national abortion mandate.  President Obama's defense of his deceptive rephrasing of the birth control mandate on Friday — suggesting that insurers can provide the drugs for free because fewer children means less overall health costs — lays the groundwork for a future abortion mandate, the National Right to Life Committee has warned.

Archbishop Dolan slams Obama's birth control compromise a 'violation of our freedom of religion'.  Even with Archbishop Timothy Dolan absent from the pulpit, the flock at St. Patrick's Cathedral Sunday heard a harsh condemnation of new federal rules on birth control coverage.  Rev. Robert Bubel blasted President Obama's compromise plan and branded the drugs "poison" in a fiery homily.  "I heard someone in Congress say, birth control is medicine.  But they deleted all the lies around that statement.  Medicine is used to combat disease," he said.  "Pregnancy is not a disease.  Pregnancy is much more like a miracle than a disease.

Whom the Gods Would Destroy:  It seems that Obama, in a classic act of hubris, has created the means of his own destruction.  Through his great historical contribution, his health care bill, he has struck what was surely intended to be a lethal blow against the oldest organization on earth — an organization with something on the order of a billion members, with a cadre of hundreds of thousands of highly trained and dedicated personnel, and a history of overcoming political threats that make Obama look like a kindergartner.

Obama tries to repair breach with Catholics.  President Obama is trying to repair his relationship with Catholic voters following a policy dispute over contraceptives even as Republicans are trying to convince voters that the president has declared war on religion. ... Since winning 54 percent of the Catholic vote in 2008, the president's approval rating among Catholics had fallen to 39 percent in the latest Rasmussen Reports poll.

"Squid Ink": The HHS mandate is already law.  [Scroll down]  ["]Thus, instead of delaying final regulations until they could be revised to reflect the prospective changes President Obama outlined Friday, the administration went ahead and locked into regulation its original position, accompanied by a (non-binding) promise to revisit the issue.["] ... Kinda makes Obama's protestations of "accommodation" look even more like a fraud and a lie than they already did.  Pass it on.  And while you're at it, pass this on, too:  There are no exemptions for individuals, either.

The Catholic church learns the true meaning of Obama's 'transformative' presidency.  The American Catholic Church, from left to right, is now being handed a lesson in the hierarchy of raw political authority.  One hopes they and their supporters will recognize that they have not been singled out.  The federal government's forcings routinely touch other groups in this country — schools, doctors, farmers, businesses.  The church's fight is not the whole or the end of it.

The war on life.  For weeks now, the biggest issue in the news has been the Obama administration's birth control mandate.  The mandate requires all Americans to purchase health insurance that provides birth control, abortifacients, and sterilizations.  Catholics, Orthodox Christians, many Protestants, and even some non-Christians are furious.  Suddenly, for the first time in our history, religious beliefs can make you a criminal, and the Catholics who supported and voted for Obama in 2008 feel betrayed.

Obama's Dupes: The President's Pro-Life Catholic Suckers.  On March 24, 2010, President Obama, flagged by 13 beaming pro-life Democratic members of Congress, led by Michigan's Bart Stupak, signed an executive order that he promised would prevent abortion funding in his "healthcare reform" bill.  These were the infamous "Bart Stupak Democrats" — many of them Roman Catholics — who had placed their faith not in their bishops or pro-lifers who urged them not to vote for "Obama-care," but in Barack Obama.  It was an executive order that the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, National Right to Life, Americans United for Life, LifeNews.com, Priests for Life, Susan B. Anthony List, and every reputable pro-life organization or leader said would be ineffective in preventing abortion funding under "Obama-care."  These pro-life Democrats, however, trusted not these lifetime fighters for life but a man who as U.S. senator had co-sponsored the Freedom of Choice Act, the most radical piece of pro-abortion legislation in the history of the republic...

Liberals Forced to Bare Their Teeth.  American women who don't want liberals legislating a culture of death over their families should know what's what.  Faithful Catholics who continue to vote for Democrats have to ask themselves:  what was the point of "Dagger John" Hughes, first Catholic Archbishop of New York, teaching the WASPs the time of day a century and a half ago?  What was the point of building the Catholic school system to which the nuns devoted their lives, if today's Catholics just knuckle under to a new era of anti-Catholic bigotry?  And for what are people supporting the Democrats?

Obama's epic blunder on birth-control mandate.  Before Barack Obama can defeat his opponents, he must first be rescued from his friends. ... The initial policy was a disaster.  The partial retreat was more skilled.  Obama's goal was not resolution but obfuscation.  The contraceptive mandate was shifted from Catholic employers to insurance companies.  Instead of being forced to buy an insurance product that violates their beliefs, religious institutions will be forced to buy an insurance product that contributes to the profits and viability of a company that is federally mandated to violate their beliefs.

American Catholicism's Pact With the Devil.  You have to hand it to Barack Obama.  He has unmasked in the most thoroughgoing way the despotic propensities of the administrative entitlements state and of the Democratic Party.  And now he has done something similar to the hierarchy of the American Catholic Church.

Obama Steamrolled by Catholic Church.  The secular Leftists who control the White House were steamrolled last week by the Catholic Church, and they still don't understand why.  Obama's requirement that church organizations provide contraception and abortifacients unleashed a mighty backlash from Jews, Catholics and Protestants.  Leftists fancy themselves as champions of the First Amendment, but now we know that doesn't include the free exercise of religion.

Conservatives Unite in Opposing Obama's Assault on Religious Liberty.  A sweeping alliance of fiscal, social and national security conservatives and leaders of the Tea Party movement came together on Monday [2/13/2012] to denounce the attack that President Barack Obama has launched on the free exercise of religion by ordering virtually all Americans to buy health insurance plans that pay for sterilizations, contraceptives and abortifacients even if doing so forces them to act against their consciences and the teachings of their faith.

War on Obama birth control mandate grows.  A wave of conservatives, Catholic leaders, even typically media-shy nuns is building to crash on President Obama's insurance birth control mandate, raising the possibility that ObamaCare will join the economy as a top issue in the 2012 election.  On multiple fronts, foes of the president's insurance birth control demand are forming this week, some to raise money to advertise against the president's reelection campaign and others simply to plead with the White House to stay out of the church's business.

Just a Taste of a Second Obama Term.  First, he came for the General Motors bondholders, but the religious leaders were not GM bondholders, so they did not speak up.  Then he came for the oil companies, but they were not oil company executives, and again they did not speak up.  Next, he came for control of the nation's health care system, and again they saw no threat — in fact, many of them supported his plan.  We were told we had to pass the plan to ... find out what was in it.  Then he came for our freedom of religion, and we found out what was in it:  pure, unadulterated tyranny.

ObamaCare Violates Far More Than Just Catholic Rights.  The president's phony contraception compromise might be enough to convince Catholics their rights aren't being trampled.  But what about the rest of us, who face more rights violations in the name of ObamaCare?

Obama: Violating Much More than Conscience.  In his latest show Gov. Mike Huckabee was seen interviewing a Catholic priest, as they spoke, the Governor said that since the Catholics have come under attack "we are all Catholics."  The audience accepted what he said and while they knew the Governor was not referring to some giant ecumenical switch to Catholicism he was stating the obvious.  When the government suspends or denies first amendment principles to the church, be it Protestant or Catholic, we all tend to close ranks.

Mark Levin recommends 'articles of impeachment' for HHS Secretary Sebelius.  On his Monday [2/13/2012] show, radio talk show host Mark Levin, author of "Ameritopia: The Unmaking of America," said "what would happen if we were living in a functioning constitutional republic is articles of impeachment would be drawn up against the secretary of [Health and Human Services, Kathleen Sebelius]" over a slew of charges, most recently the contraception mandate for Catholic institutions.

Bishops Reject White House's New Plan on Contraception.  The nation's Roman Catholic bishops have rejected a compromise on birth control coverage that President Obama offered on Friday and said they would continue to fight the president's plan to find a way for employees of Catholic hospitals, universities and service agencies to receive free contraceptive coverage in their health insurance plans, without direct involvement or financing from the institutions.

59% of Catholics Disapprove of Obama's Job Performance.  A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 59% of likely Catholic voters nationwide at least somewhat disapprove of the president's job performance, while 40% at least somewhat approve.  But the passion's on the side of those who don't like the job he's doing:  44% Strongly Disapprove versus 19% who Strongly Approve.

Poll: Catholics abandon Obama.  54% of Catholics voted for President Obama in 2008.  Now, things are different.  The Rasmussen Poll found his approval among Catholics plummeted to 40% approval, 59% disapproval.  "Republican hopeful Mitt Romney currently leads the president among Catholic voters by a 52% to 35% margin," Rasmussen reported.

The Little Sisters of Limousine Liberalism.  [Scroll down]  So let's get down to brass tacks.  How much is Sister Keehan worth for such political interventions?  The checkered Catholic hospitals Keehan represents as chief executive officer of the Catholic Health Association stand to receive gobs and gobs of cash from the federal government if Obamacare holds up past 2012.  Consequently, the members of the association are more than happy to pony up huge salaries to executives skilled at manipulating the Catholic electorate for Obama.  Keehan is worth $962,467 to them in total salary and benefits, according to the Schedule J (Form 990) 2010 document sent to me by CHA.

Pelosi: Govt. Should Require Church To Pay for Birth Control.  House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi said Thursday morning [2/16/2012] that the government should require self-insured religious institutions, such as the Catholic church in Washington, D.C., to directly pay for contraception and abortifacients.

Mother Angelica's network isn't buying Obama's religious liberty ruse.  Don't pick a fight, the saying goes, with a man who buys ink by the barrel.  Here's a corollary for President Obama:  Don't pick a fight with an elderly, retired, cloistered nun who founded the world's largest religious media network.  That is precisely the mistake Obama made when his administration announced that religious employers like Mother Angelica's Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN) would be forced to provide coverage for contraception, sterilization, and abortion-inducing drugs — a violation of their deeply held religious beliefs.

Politics and the President's Pill: Are They Healthy for Women?.  Announcing that insurance companies would pay for contraceptives on Friday [2/10/2012], President Obama added that doctors "put women on contraceptives as a way to prevent and reduce the risk of ovarian and other cancers."  Days earlier, Nancy Pelosi said that peoples' complaints about the contraceptive mandate and religious freedom were not the issue and emphasized that "this is about women's health."  There is an issue, though, regarding the mandate that lies beyond the grave religious and constitutional issues therein:  do contraceptives harm women's health?

Can Obama Order Grocers to Give Away Bread?  Last August, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius issued a proposed regulation that would force virtually all health care plans to cover sterilizations and all Food and Drug Administration-approved contraceptives, including those that cause abortion.  Because Obamacare mandates that all Americans must purchase health insurance, this regulation would require Catholics — whose church teaches that sterilization, artificial contraception and abortion are wrong — to act against the teachings of their faith.  Obama was unambiguously attacking the First Amendment right to the free exercise of religion.

Catholic bishops fight for authority over U.S. flock.  The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops is a powerful institution, at least on paper.  But a recent debate over contraception coverage has exposed a deep divide between the 271 active bishops and the rank-and-file U.S. Catholics who are supposed to follow their moral authority.  It also has raised questions about why some prominent Catholic intuitions ignore the bishops' teachings — and whether the bishops will be able to reassert their authority.

The Contraceptive Mandate's Shaky Justification.  The first thing to understand about the Department of Health and Human Services' birth-control mandate, and the last, is that it is an assault on both faithful Christians and the Constitution by leftists who consider themselves at "war" — their word — with bourgeois America.  It has nothing to do with guaranteeing access to contraceptives, sterilization, and abortifacients.

Catholicism and Freedom: A Moment of Truth.  The recent stand-off between the Obama administration and the Catholic Church is producing an effect that may prove to be more historically significant than the immediate battle over freedom of religion.  A problem that has been growing within the Church for decades has finally burst into the light:  the conflict between Church leaders and a significant portion of the flock on the subject of political freedom.

Communism by insurance mandate.  One theory for why Barack Obama pushed the contraception mandate right now is that it helps Rick Santorum.  Others theorize it's because Obama is an anti-religious bigot with a left-wing agenda. ... This isn't a Catholic issue or even a religious issue.  Conservatives are falling into the Democrats' trap by denouncing it as such.  It's a freedom issue.

Under the HHS Mandate, the Sisters of Life Cannot Be the Sisters of Life.  Every professed member of religious Sisters for Life take a vow "to protect and enhance the sacredness of human life."  But they cannot fully do that, according to the Obama administration.  In a statement, the Sisters explain what the HHS mandate means for them.

Catholic, Lutheran, Baptist and Jewish Leaders Swear Disobedience to HHS Contraception Mandate.  Would you go to jail — or even close down your hospitals and schools — rather than violate your religious faith, a Republican lawmaker asked religious leaders at a House hearing on Thursday [2/16/2012].  The answer, given under oath, was unanimous:  They will disobey.  "We're not going to violate our consciences," William E. Lori, the Roman Catholic Bishop of Bridgeport, Conn., told Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) in response to Gowdy's question about the Obama administration's contraception mandate.

Obama's Deceptive Hidden Premises.  The most evil thing about the Obama administration's recent violation of the separation of church and state is its deceptiveness.  With his order requiring inclusion of contraception and abortifacient drugs in insurance coverage, the president is smuggling the hidden premises of NARAL, Planned Parenthood, and other supporters of abortion into U.S. law, and doing so untruthfully.  The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) instruction attacking religious institutions such as hospitals, universities, and programs for the poor rests on four hidden premises.

At religious freedom hearing on contraception: 'This is an issue worth dying for'.  Religious leaders of different faiths stoked the national debate over contraception Thursday [2/16/2012], converging on Capitol Hill and charging the Obama administration with attempting to violate their religious freedoms.  Leaders from the Catholic, Jewish, Baptist and Lutheran faiths joined in opposition to a proposed federal mandate that would require church-affiliated employers to cover birth control in their health plans.

Obama's Real Motivation For Imposing the Contraception Mandate on the Catholic Church:  Dick Morris has an interesting theory about Obama's true motivation for the contraception mandate in his latest Lunch Alert.  Obama always has an ulterior motive, he notes — you have to read it to know how to defeat the guy.  Morris says that for Obama, the issue is not about infringing upon religious liberty — he thinks Obama's trying to replace abortion with contraception in the left/right social divide because they're losing the abortion debate.  He wants to polarize the nation to profit his reelection chances over the issue of contraception.

Every Argument In Support Of The HHS Mandate.  With a rebuttal to every one of them.

Overreach: ObamaCare vs. the Constitution.  President Obama's birth control "accommodation" was as politically successful as it was morally meaningless.  It was nothing but an accounting trick that still forces Catholic (and other religious) institutions to provide medical insurance that guarantees free birth control, tubal ligation and morning-after abortifacients — all of which violate church doctrine on the sanctity of life.

Attorneys General Threaten Lawsuit Against Obama's Contraception Mandate.  Attorneys General from a dozen states are considering a federal lawsuit against the Obama administration's contraception mandate requiring employers to provide insurance that includes free contraception — including sterilization and drugs that can cause abortion.  Led by Nebraska's Attorney General, Jon Bruning (left), the top state lawyers issued a strongly worded letter to the administration expressing their "strong opposition" to the mandate, and warning:  "Should this unconstitutional mandate be promulgated, we are prepared to vigorously oppose it in court."

Misconception.  The problem with the contraceptive mandate is not the contraceptive part -- it's the mandate.  The new health-care law requires every employer with 50 or more employees to provide their workers with health insurance.  It also requires every American who doesn't receive health insurance through work or a government program to buy insurance themselves or face a fine.  But simply providing or buying insurance is not enough to fulfill the mandate.  The insurance must satisfy the government's definition of what qualifies as proper insurance, including a long list of benefits that the government thinks you should have.

Meet the ObamaCare Mandate Committee.  Offended by President Obama's decision to force health insurers to pay for contraception and surgical sterilization?  It gets worse:  In the future, thanks to ObamaCare, the government will issue such health edicts on a routine basis — and largely insulated from public view.  This goes beyond contraception to cancer screenings, the use of common drugs like aspirin, and much more.

The Sacred Dogma of the Left.  The church's allies — evangelical Christians, Tea Partiers, and other non-Catholic conservatives — are motivated by a conviction that, theology aside, the Obamacare edict forcing the church to pay for procedures it finds morally objectionable is an unconstitutional trespass on the free exercise of religion.  But what is it that motivates those on the left?  Why do they care so deeply about the kind of insurance coverage Catholic employers provide? ... For the left, the fight isn't about social justice or the proper scope of the state.  It's about the contraceptives.  It's about sex.

The Editor says...
 One group is concerned about upholding the Constitution and preserving freedom for future generations, while another group is primarily motivated by fornication while trying to avoid parenthood.  Which group consists of rational, sober-minded thinkers, and which group is wildly out of step with the majority of Americans?

Obama's religious bigotry.  ObamaCare passed Congress with only Democrat votes — not one Republican voted yea on one of the most expensive bills in the history of the nation.  Obama's signature effort he so proudly campaigned on and signed into law forces Catholic organizations to provide birth control and abortion-inducing drugs through their employee health insurance plans, despite the fact that it is not supported by the Catholic Church.  Such blatant religious bigotry and arrogance by the president is, predictably, enraging to Catholics and threatens to derail Obama's already-eroding support nationally.

Paul Ryan: Obama contraception ruling reveals 'paternalistic, arrogant' attitude.  Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) on Sunday [2/19/2012] blasted the Obama administration's moves to mandate religious affiliated groups to provide contraception coverage as "paternalistic" and "arrogant."  "What we're getting from the White House on this conscience issue, it's not an issue about contraception, it's an issue that reveals a political philosophy the president is showing that basically treats our constitutional rights as if they were revocable privileges from our government, not inalienable rights from our creator," said Ryan on NBC's Meet the Press.

Pelosi, Boxer and Judas — Obama Lied At Notre Dame.  The House Minority Leader says self-insurance is no protection against the government's contraceptive mandate, while California's junior senator says people have a right to be insured but no right to practice their faith.

Death of a nation.  It was bad enough when the Congress told all citizens of this country that we did not control our own health destiny — that we either accepted the dictates of the government or would be fined accordingly.  But now, to be told that the state controls not only our medical choices but also our moral choices — that is really too much to bear.

The Left's Hatred of Religion.  This HHS controversy has me thinking that our fundamental right of religious liberty has suffered a drastic deflation in value from 1791 until now.  For that matter, how could it be otherwise in a nation where so many Americans despise religion?  Examine the rationalizations of commentators defending the Obama faux-compromise on the HHS mandate and you'll see what I mean.  Joan Walsh at Salon writes that she was raised Catholic, but has since turned into "a secular feminist liberal Democrat."

Obama's War on Religious Liberty.  Obama and the liberals have overplayed their hand.  By baring their teeth, these lackeys for the Left have awakened Democratic voters to the real contempt that liberals hold for religious values.  All 181 U.S. Catholic bishops oppose Obama's mandate, and Rasmussen polling estimates that 65 percent of Catholic Americans also oppose it.  There are about 75 million American Catholics, most of whom have traditionally been Democratic voters but wouldn't hesitate to cross party lines to defend their church leaders.

The Catholic Betrayal of Religious Freedom.  It was not surprising that ill-educated Catholics in Congress rushed to embrace President Obama's "accommodation" on the HHS mandate on sterilization and contraception (including possible abortifacients), or that the faux accommodation was defended, if risibly, by another embodiment of Catholic Lite, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius.  One does not look to Senator Patty Murray, or to Representative Rose DeLauro or Nancy Pelosi, or to Secretary Sebelius, to learn anything about Catholic doctrine or the history of the Church's teaching on moral issues.  Nemo dat quod non habet, as the scholastic philosophers used to say:  No one gives what (s)he does not have.

Evangelicals join Catholics in opposing birth control rule.  Speaking at the National Religious Broadcasters convention in Nashville [2/20/2012], Family Research Council President Tony Perkins said more than 2,500 pastors and evangelical leaders have signed a letter to President Obama asking him to reverse the mandate.

Battle lines are drawn over whether Obama is waging a war on religion.  President Obama's public clash with U.S. Catholic bishops in recent weeks over the issue of health insurance coverage for birth-control services has ignited a wider debate over whether the administration's policies such as gay marriage, abortion and employment-discrimination laws are running roughshod over religious freedom.

Why Won't Republicans Stop Obama's Arrogant, Paternalistic, Totalitarian Overreach?  I really don't understand why Republicans keep allowing Obama to usurp congressional and constitutional authority. ... Now, we have the Obama administration's outrageous contraception mandate, in which, to use Charles Krauthammer's words, "the president of the United States has just ordered private companies to give away for free a service that his own health and human services secretary has repeatedly called a major financial burden."

Obama, Not Santorum, is the Theocrat.  [Scroll down]  Obama and his unaccountable thugs in HHS declare who is and who is not a religious organization; what is and what is not permissible religious belief.  And debate is cut off.  God has spoken.  Go forth and do His will.  Those who fear a theocracy might note that it is Obama who is setting himself up as God, not Rick Santorum.

Obama's Law of Contraception.  It is not just the Catholic Church.  We will all now be forced to pay for free contraceptives for everybody — and abortion, sterilization, and anything else Il Duce decides we must pay for — through the individual and employer mandates of Obamacare.  Prepare to dig into your pocket to pay for partial-birth abortions in a second Obama term.

Commerce Is the Culture War.  If you believe that the Obama administration's decision to force Catholic institutions to pay for and offer (directly or indirectly) products the church finds morally objectionable is an assault on religious freedom and free speech, you probably also realize the importance of consumer choice.  After all, when government dictates what people buy and sell, it dictates much more.

Obama the Lawbreaker versus the Catholic Church.  It is the Obama administration that is refusing to obey the law.  The administration is the trespasser on rights.  Its people are, in fact, lawbreakers.  The law being broken is our Constitution.  The Constitution is America's paramount law, meaning that not only does it trump statutory laws contrary to it, but it supersedes any Obama administration mandate in violation of it.

Obama's More Deferential to Afghan Muslims Than American Catholics.  President Obama's decision to order Roman Catholics to act against the teachings of their faith by forcing Catholics to buy insurance that pays for sterilizations, artificial contraceptives and abortifacients was not made by mistake.  Obama did it with long and careful premeditation — fully understanding that the Catholic Church would (correctly) perceive the regulation as a very serious and direct attack on the free exercise of religion by Catholics.

100% of Catholic Bishops Oppose Obama's Contraceptive Mandate.  All 181 Catholic bishops in the United States oppose and have publicly denounced a regulation issued by the Obama administration that would require every health insurer to offer contraceptives, including those that induce abortion, free of charge.  The bishops oppose the mandate because, they argue, it is a violation of religious liberty under the First Amendment — in this case, the federal government forcing individual Catholics to subsidize products and services that are contrary to their religious beliefs.

Ideas Have Consequences and Obama's Have Bad Ones.  President Obama's recent attacks on religious freedom through ObamaCare have far broader implications than the immediate crisis.  The attacks not only strike at the very rights of conscience our Founding Fathers sought to protect via the First Amendment.  The threat is also due to the underlying hostility to pregnancy and children that the president encoded into federal law.

Seven states sue to block contraception mandate.  Seven states filed a lawsuit Thursday [2/23/2012] to block the federal government's requirement that religious organizations offer health insurance coverage that includes free access to contraception for women.  The attorney generals of Texas, Florida, Michigan, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma and South Carolina jointly filed the lawsuit in a Nebraska US District Court.

Obama's Apologies.  So the president refuses to apologize for forcing Catholics to violate their religious beliefs or pay a tax penalty.  But he immediately apologizes because a few of our soldiers inadvertently violated Muslims religious beliefs by trying to dispose of already-desecrated Korans.

Obama's bad moves on infanticide come back to haunt him.  [Scroll down]  On March 30, 2001, Illinois State Senator Patrick O'Malley introduced three pieces of legislation aimed at protecting an infant who had survived an abortion outside the mother's womb. ... ["]This is essentially very simple.  The Constitution does not say that a child born must be viable in order to live and be accorded the rights of citizenship.  It simply says it must be born.  And a child who survives birth is a US citizen, and we need to do everything we can here in the state of Illinois and, frankly, in the other 49 states and in the halls of Washington, DC, to make sure that we secure or and protect those rights.  So if this legislation is designed to clarify ... and reaffirm the rights that are entitled to a child born in America, so be it, and it is constitutional.["]

President Obama's Theology: Is It Phony?  President Obama frequently professes his Christian faith and argues confidently that his policies are rooted in biblical truths.  So when his administration issued a mandate requiring Catholic institutions to provide contraception and abortion-inducing pills to their employees, conservatives demanded an explanation.  Why would someone who professes faith in God try to force Catholics to obey government over God (as they believe God to have spoken on the issue)?

A Forced Marriage of Church and State.  During the Middle Ages, the political power advantage most often lay with the Church.  Such was the power of the Church that pope Gregory VII forced Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV to stand in the snow and to kneel before the pope begging forgiveness as an act of penance for defying the Holy See.  But this time, the power advantage lies with President Obama and the executive branch, not the Catholic Church.

Is this still America?  Under the sweeping powers of Obamacare, the state has forced Catholic institutions to choose between their God and their government by demanding that they violate their own beliefs and provide birth control to their employees.  Their insulting rationalization? Most Catholic women are bad Catholics and don't follow the teachings of the church anyway.  What's more, the government has deified itself to determine which organizations are Catholic enough to be exempt.

Chicago's Cardinal Warns Of An ObamaCare Gulag.  The ex-head of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops compares the administration take on freedom of worship to the Soviet Union's and says its contraceptive mandate will force church hospitals to close.

Holder: 1st Amendment Allows Gov't to Force Catholics to Buy Sterilization-Contraception-Abortion Insurance.  The Justice Department will defend against any legal challenge to the new Obama administration mandate to force employers to provide abortion-inducing drugs, sterilization and contraception, even if it goes against their conscience, Attorney General Eric Holder told a House subcommittee Tuesday [2/28/2012].

Senator: HHS Reg Will Make College Pay $246M Fine to Exercise Its Religion.  Sen. Mike Johanns (R-Neb.), speaking on the House floor on Wednesday [2/29/2012] said the HHS regulation requiring free contraceptive coverage would make Creighton University pay a $246 million fine to exercise its religion.

The Editor says...
 That's a little too much personification for my taste, although I see the Senator's point.  People have rights, and churches have rights, but can a college "exercise its religion"?

Senator: Obama's Acting Like U.S. Is USSR.  Sen. Mike Johanns (R-Neb.) said Wednesday [2/29/2012] that President Barack Obama is acting like the U.S. is the Soviet Union in ordering that all health-care plans must cover sterilizations and all FDA-approved contraceptives, including those that cause abortions, but that when those plans are provided by religious institutions that have a religious objection to those things the insurance company must offer them for free.

More about President Obama's Potential as a Marxist Dictator.

Top U.S. Bishop to All Bishops:
 'We Did Not Ask for This Fight, But We Will Not Run From It'.  Cardinal Timothy Dolan, archbishop of New York and president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, sent a letter on Friday [3/2/2012] to all the Catholic bishops of the United States reasserting the conviction of the Catholic Church that it will not yield to the Obama administration's command — issued in the form of a Health and Human Services regulation implementing the president's health-care plan — that Catholics and Catholic institutions must violate the teachings of their faith by purchasing and providing health insurance plans that pay for sterilizations, contraceptives and abortifacients.

Obamas Unholy Attack On Bearing False Witness.  The mix of politics and religion can be an intoxicating cocktail.  Just now you can smell the incense everywhere, from Martha's Vineyard to Washington, D.C.  For a Left that obsesses over a wall of separation between church and state, when death comes and health-care bills need rallies, there is little hesitation to break out the devotional smells and bells.  But the loss of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, one of the most prominent Catholic politicians in the United States, a leading proponent of the president's health-care-reform push, should not obscure a pivotal fact:  Barack Obama has put himself at war with the Catholic Church.

The Obama Inquisition.  Clearly, [Thomas] Jefferson was making clear to the Baptists that the "wall of separation" was designed to protect Religion from the State, not to protect the State from Religion.  President Obama shattered this two-century consensus.  He mandated that Catholics must violate their religious convictions to pay premiums for health care plans that cover contraception, abortion-inducing drugs such as Ella, and sterilization, all of which Catholic doctrine teaches to be harmful and immoral.  Those who refuse to comply will be persecuted by crippling fines.

The Obama Abomination.  President Obama gave America a preview of his warpath against organized religion and people of faith when he undid parts of a President Bush Executive Order protecting health care providers from being required to perform, participate in, or provide a medical procedure with which they had religious or moral objection.  But in the past month alone the Obama Administration has gone guns-a-blazing, full-force against both religion and the Constitution.

Obama the Apostate.  During a recent conversation about the HHS anti-conscience mandate, a friend who is neither Catholic nor particularly religious asked the following rhetorical question about the Obama administration:  Do these people know who they're messing with?  Her point, of course, was that the Church has spent nearly two millennia crushing attempts by secular rulers to dictate the way it carries out its charitable ministries.

The Left Finally Goes for the First Amendment.  The short-sighted may see Mr. Obama's 1st Amendment challenge as a botch politically, an election year goof that's going to cost Democrats in November.  That may well be, but that estimate fails to appreciate that the president and the left aren't about one election; they're about radically altering the nation — its morality, society, culture, and adherence to faith.  That's a long-term project, with its beginnings in the early 20th century.

Democrats sneak Uncle Sam into your bedroom.  Under the sweeping powers of Obamacare, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is empowered to reach into our churches and direct how they will practice their religion.  Yawn.  Just another day under President Obama's authoritarian regime.

Obama Says Accusations of Waging War on Religion are "Puzzling".  President Obama when asked about the attacks from conservatives that he is waging a "war on religion" said that he finds it "puzzling," particularly because of his first job as a community organizer in Chicago, working with churches where he says he spread the "social gospel."

The Sebelius savings plan.  There's something perverse about a government $15.5 trillion in the red espousing a strategy to "save money" by discouraging the birth of human beings.  That's what Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius is advocating through the implementation of President Obama's contraception mandate.

Carney to bishops: Birth control decision is final.  On Feb. 10 Obama announced a new regulation that forces religious groups to financially support activities they abhor, but that the government supports.  In particular, the president directed religious organizations to provide insurance policies that offer free contraceptives.  But "government has no place defining religion and religious ministry," said the Mar. 14 statement by the top-level administrative committee of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.

US Conference of Catholic Bishops Fights Obama War on Religion.  Yesterday [3/14/2012], the Administrative Committee of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops issued a public statement denouncing what it called "an unwarranted government definition of religion."  The Conference spelled out what the debate over President Obama's birth control mandate is about.

If our government can do this, what can they not do?  It's always fascinating when people on either side of a partisan divide give each other gifts.  Case in point:  President Obama's approval of a rule ordering Catholic institutions to offer insurance policies covering birth control, sterilization procedures and the morning after pill — all contrary to church teachings.  No one has fully explained why Obama took this step.

Obama and People of Faith.  In his hubris and haste, the president has tipped his hand, showing all Americans of faith just where their free exercise of religion stands in Obama's imperious new world.

Bristol calls Obama out.  Unable to run for re-election on his pathetic record of spending $5 trillion more than we have, of the worst unemployment in 30 years and the loss of not one but now two wars, President Obama must divert attention from his sorry presidency.  He embraced Rush Limbaugh's calling a 30-year-old anti-Catholic campaigner a "slut."  Bristol Palin who has been called worse called Obama on it.

Hellfire and Brimstone Straight From the Pulpit.  The announcement in January by the Obama Administration that as part of ObamaCare all employer provided healthcare insurance policies — even those of religious organizations — would have to provide contraception, sterilization, and even abortifacient drugs awoke a fervor among people of faith, particularly Catholic clerics, that had been virtually silent for at least two generations.

Obama's War on Catholic Church Began at His First Job.  One of the least explored periods of Barack Obama's life is the period between his graduation from Columbia University in 1983 and his arrival at Harvard Law School in 1988.  This was a crucial, formative time for the young Obama.  It was during these years that Barack Obama, "community organizer," forged his identity and the relationships that would bring him to the White House.  And he did so hand-in-hand with the radical Catholic left in Chicago.

Church, Sex, and Society.  The Church's present weakness hasn't escaped the Obama administration.  It is cynically exploiting the disconnect between the Church's teaching and a voting bloc called "Catholic," thereby freezing and isolating Church leadership and others who recognize the wisdom behind the Church's teaching.

Bishop: Obama following path of Hitler and Stalin.  In a homily delivered Saturday [4/14/2012], Bishop Daniel R. Jenky of the Diocese of Peoria, Illinois challenged President Obama's HHS mandate, suggesting that the president was following the same path as Hitler and Stalin.  "Hitler and Stalin, at their better moments, would just barely tolerate some churches remaining open, but would not tolerate any competition with the state in education, social services, and health care," Jenky said.  "In clear violation of our First Amendment rights, Barack Obama — with his radical, pro abortion and extreme secularist agenda, now seems intent on following a similar path," Jenky added.

Will Obama Fine Catholic Institutions Into Oblivion?  "You don't want to buy it, fine.  We'll fine you into oblivion."  That, says a lawyer representing a number of Catholic institutions, is what the Obama administration will say to his clients if the federal courts do not strike down a regulation the administration has issued that requires all health insurance plans to cover sterilizations and artificial contraceptives, including those that induce abortions.

Predictably...
 Protest by Catholic activists may hamper Obama reelection bid.  President Obama has seen his standing among Catholic voters, a crucial segment of the electorate, slip in recent weeks, and a looming confrontation with Catholic activists could make it worse.

Catholic Bishops Take on Obama.  The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops has taken a bold stand for religious freedom.  In a recent statement, titled "Our First, Most Cherished Liberty," the bishops call for repeal of contraception coverage mandated by the Department of Health and Human Services.  The clarified position sets up a dramatic confrontation with the Obama administration — and would, if the bishops prevail, help preserve the religious liberty of all Americans.

Sebelius Admits She Never Consulted the Constitution or Legal Precedent on the Abortifacient Mandate.  Watch the video, which is from hearings earlier today [4/26/2012].  Rep. Trey Gowdy of South Carolina asks the HHS secretary a simple question:  When you say that you weighed the balance of the Constitution versus the administration's contraceptive mandate, what did you mean by that?  It turns out that she meant nothing at all by that.  "Balance" is just a word that sounded good.  She did not look into past Supreme Court cases regarding religious liberty.  She did not look at any case law at all.  She did not even have any sort of legal memo drafted to back up the mandate.

Sex, Lies, and School Bus Rides.  Catholics have always offered a fatter target than, say, Methodists.  So no one should be surprised that when Obama took a stab at religion he chose anti-Catholicism as the fire-hardened tip of his spear.  He's simply following the lead of progressive ideologues, among them Supreme Court justices, who have channeled anti-Catholic bigotry to advance a big-government, secularist agenda.

Barack Obama: Tearing Catholics to Pieces.  Real leaders build up.  Barack Obama tears down.  It's what he does.  Perhaps I am biased, but I find the president's goal of splitting Catholics over their own teaching one of the worst of his divisive offenses.


Obama's position on abortion casts doubt on his claims of Christianity.

There is another nearby page on which abundant empirical evidence is offered to contradict Barack Obama's claim to be a Christian.  In my opinion, no Christian would support the practice of fetal homicide, yet Obama seems almost enthusiastic about it.

Obama Praises Planned Parenthood In Video Message To Supporters.  "For you and for most Americans, protecting women's health is a mission that stands above politics," President Obama says in a video message to the Planned Parenthood Action Fund.

Obama's Views Not Consistent With Christianity, Conservative Says.  Americans should question Sen. Barack Obama's (D-Ill.) commitment to Christianity based on his "disregard" for unborn life, well-known black conservative author and activist Star Parker said.  "Based on his disregard and disrespect for human life, we should question his insistence that he's a Christian.  It is inconsistent with the biblical world view to think that not only is abortion okay, but he goes so far as to support partial-birth abortion," Parker told CNSNews.com in an interview.

Obama:  Premature Babies Aren't People.  On the federal level a similar bill passed 98-0 garnering a yea vote from pro-abortion stalwart Barbara Boxer.  But back in Illinois, Barack Obama had problems with this type of legislation.  He spoke on the floor of the Illinois Senate in opposition to the Born Alive Infants Protection Act — in fact, he was the only senator to do so.  The following year he spoke against the born alive bill again.  As a rabid proponent of legalized abortion, Obama voted against the bill or worked for its defeat on three separate occasions.

Obama Lied About Abortion Record.  Newly discovered documents from the Illinois state archives prove Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has lied about his opposition to legislation requiring health officials to provide care to babies who survived abortion as an Illinois state senator. … Now there's documentation showing Obama did vote against a version of the Born Alive Infant Protection Act that contained language to protect abortion rights identical to the bill that passed 98-0 in the U.S. Senate.

Influential Evangelical Lobby Attacks Obama's Christian Credentials.  [Scroll down]  Obama's progressivism, however, leads him to conclusions that are morally untenable, if not reprehensible, to Evangelicals and other traditionalist Christians.  He approves of same-sex romantic and sexual relationships, as do his church, his pastor and his denomination.  He supports abortion for any reason, by any method, at any stage of pregnancy including during the birth process.  In an E-mail under his wife Michelle's signature, his campaign for US Senate championed Roe v. Wade and partial-birth abortion.  In 2002 as an Illinois legislator, Obama even voted against the Induced Infant Liability Act, which would have protected babies that survived late-term abortion.

Obama's Christian Creds Vs. Abortion and Infanticide:  This, "I don't want them punished with a baby," is perhaps the most self-revelatory statement Barack Obama has uttered in public since he began his campaign for the Presidency. … Because it goes to the personal. It goes to the extent of wholehearted approval of killing one's own grandchildren if they happen to have been conceived inconveniently.

The Gospel According to Obama:  As the saying goes, faith without works is dead.  Obama's sanctimonious chatter about religion only underscores how little he understands about how those concepts are viewed by the most faith-conscious Americans, for whom actions will speak louder than words alone.

NARAL Pro-Choice Obama:  One reason that the national board of NARAL, the pro-abortion lobbying organization, endorsed Sen. Barack Obama, and encouraged its state membership to do the same, was a series of behind the scenes conversations between the Obama campaign and NARAL.  "The message was, get on board or risk losing influence," says an Obama strategist.  "We needed one of these [feminist or pro-abortion] groups to step up and walk away from Hillary.

Barack Obama, Man of Faith.  Obama the Christian is a devout believer in unlimited abortion rights.  He denies the existence of Hell.  He came to Christianity through social organizing with activist religious [people].  His devout Christianity derives from the secular humanist "values" his atheist mother imbued him with.  He believes, with all his heart, in the separation of church and state — except when he campaigns in black churches, in violation of that separation, and in violation of the tax code.  Obama wears his religion on his sleeve in black churches, but in dealing with the mainstream media, attacks the same behavior, at least as far as white, conservative Christians are concerned.

Infanticide candidate for president.  On abortion, Obama is an extremist.  He has opposed the Supreme Court decision that finally upheld the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act against that form of infanticide.  Most startlingly, for a professed humanist, Obama — in the Illinois Senate — also voted against the Born Alive Infant Protection Act.  I have reported on several of those cases when, before the abortion was completed, an alive infant was suddenly in the room.  It was disposed of as a horrified nurse who was not necessarily pro-life followed the doctors' orders to put the baby in a pail or otherwise get rid of the child.

Barack Hussein Obama Refused:  "I Did Not Want To Concede".  As an Illinois state senator, Barack Hussein Obama refused to support legislation to protect babies that survived late-term abortions, claiming "I did not want to concede."  To what was Obama referring?  His statement was in reference to babies that were fully outside their mothers' wombs.  Thus, Obama did not want to concede the fact that babies who survived a late term abortion were in fact "persons."  He was the only senator of the Democrat Party to speak against baby protection legislation.  He was the only legislator from either side of the political isle that took his position.

Reaction to Obama — babies are God's gift, not a 'punishment'.  Pro-life advocate Wendy Wright says presidential candidate Barak Obama's recent comment that he wouldn't want his daughters to be "punished with a baby" reveals much about where the Democrat stands on the issue of the sanctity of all human life — and shows his true persona.

The Editor says...
 Senator Obama's words directly contradict the Bible, which says,
"Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the womb is his reward."

Psalm 127:3 

Barack Obama celebrates birth of Roe vs. Wade abortion decision.  [Scroll down]  So instead today [1/22/2010] the Democratic chief executive issued a special statement celebrating the 37th birthday of the Supreme Court's Roe vs. Wade abortion decision.  He particularly hailed the hallmark decision's granting of the "fundamental constitutional right to choose whether to have an abortion."

If Obama were a Christian, would he act like this?
 No media at Obama abortion-order signing.  A day after a lavish bill signing White House ceremony on health care reform, President Obama will sign an executive order barring the law from allowing federally funded abortion, but he'll do so behind closed doors and with no media allowed. ... Not even a photographer will be allowed into the Oval Office to capture the moment.

Barack Hussein Obama is a Fraud.  Obama is not a Christian.  I do not what his true faith, if any, is.  I do know he is a hypocrite and a liar. ... I do not consider it Christian to abort and kill unborn babies.  It certainly is not Christian to kill babies after they have survived an abortion and are born alive.  Obama continually voted to do this very thing when he was in the Illinois legislature.

Obamination.  [President Obama] is the first U.S. president in my memory to issue a statement in favor of abortion on the anniversary of Roe v. Wade.  Of all the cherished utterances of our beloved leader the last three years, perhaps none is so divisive and offensive as ... his tribute to the judicial fiat that has resulted in the deaths of more than 40 million Americans, and a testament to his twisted views.

The President at the Prayer Breakfast.  [Scroll down]  He had the gall to come to the prayer breakfast to proclaim that "we can't leave our values at the door" after ripping up the "conscience clauses" so that people of faith and personal religious convictions must pay for abortions as part of ObamaCare and all employers must provide abortifacients to their employees under the new HHS mandates regarding health insurance coverage.

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