{"id":3057,"date":"2008-11-02T23:44:20","date_gmt":"2008-11-03T04:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/?p=3057"},"modified":"2008-11-02T23:45:05","modified_gmt":"2008-11-03T04:45:05","slug":"teenagers-will-be-victimized-by-secret-abortions-under-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2008\/11\/teenagers-will-be-victimized-by-secret-abortions-under-obama\/","title":{"rendered":"Teenagers Will be Victimized by Secret Abortions Under Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"

LifeNews.com<\/a> | Matt Barber | Nov. 2, 2008<\/p>\n

Contrary to Obama\u2019s disingenuous rhetoric promising to \u201creduce the number of abortions,\u201d the Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA) would \u2013 with one stroke of the pen \u2013 remove every commonsense regulation placed on the abortion industry over the past three decades. Rather than reducing the already astronomical rate of abortions, the number would skyrocket ever-upward under an Obama presidency. <\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a day like any other. The kids are safe at school and you\u2019re at work wishing you weren\u2019t. All is as it should be. Then your cell phone rings. On the other end is your twelve-year-old daughter\u2019s junior high school guidance counselor. Amid nervous hemming and hawing you detect that something\u2019s horribly wrong. Then the words, \u201cI\u2019m sorry, she didn\u2019t make it.\u201d <\/p>\n

At first it doesn\u2019t register. Then it clicks and your soul is pierced. The room begins to spin and rapidly close in. You sink deep and grab for something. But nothing on this earth will hold you up. <\/p>\n

Nightmare becomes reality as you learn that your little girl has just bled to death \u2013 alone and afraid \u2013 on a cold slab at the local Planned Parenthood clinic, the victim of a botched abortion. She was driven there, unbeknownst to you, by the very guidance counselor to whom you speak. <\/p>\n

You didn\u2019t even know she was pregnant. Like any child in her shoes, she was afraid to tell you \u2013 afraid of what you\u2019d think \u2013 afraid you\u2019d be ashamed. So she told someone else. Someone she trusted. Someone she thought cared for her. Someone who decidedly did not. <\/p>\n

No one called. No one asked. No one said a word. They didn\u2019t have to. They killed your baby and your baby\u2019s baby in secret. <\/p>\n

You feel powerless. You should. You are. <\/p>\n

It was all legal, you see, and there\u2019s not a thing you can do about it \u2013 nothing. <\/p>\n

As Tuesday\u2019s election fast approaches, you\u2019re officially on notice. It\u2019s not a question of whether similar scenarios will play out under an Obama presidency. It\u2019s a question of how often and to what degree.<\/p>\n

You needn\u2019t wonder what the first official act of a President Obama will be. He\u2019s told us. At a national Planned Parenthood fundraiser last year, Obama promised members of the billion dollar abortion industry their heart\u2019s desire: Unfettered, unrestricted and federally enforced abortion on demand throughout all nine months of pregnancy. <\/p>\n

\u201cWell, the first thing I’d do as president,\u201d an exuberant Obama told his fawning like-minded pro-aborts, \u201cis sign the Freedom of Choice Act. That’s the first thing that I’d do.\u201d <\/p>\n

What\u2019s the Freedom of Choice Act <\/strong>(FOCA<\/strong>)? What would it do? <\/p>\n

Well, contrary to Obama\u2019s disingenuous rhetoric promising to \u201creduce the number of abortions,\u201d FOCA would \u2013 with one stroke of the pen \u2013 remove every commonsense regulation placed on the abortion industry over the past three decades. Rather than reducing the already astronomical rate of abortions, the number would skyrocket ever-upward under an Obama presidency. <\/p>\n

Among other things, FOCA would remove the right of parents to even know if their child is undergoing very risky and always deadly abortion surgery. Parental notification requirements in forty-four states would be wiped out. This means that some adult, any adult \u2013 even an adult sexual predator \u2013 could and would take his child victim to a sympathetic abortion clinic to destroy the human evidence of his crimes. All this, under the impenetrable veil of government-mandated secrecy. <\/p>\n

But it gets worse yet. As the Family Research Council\u2019s Tom McCluskey illustrates, FOCA \u2013 Barack Obama\u2019s much loved and most pressing piece of legislation \u2013 would additionally abolish <\/strong>the following: <\/p>\n

\u00b7 State abortion reporting requirements in all 50 states
\n(Again, it\u2019s all about secrecy. This means that we would never again be able to track the number of abortions performed each year. Ask yourself what good could come from hiding such statistics.) <\/p>\n

\u00b7 Forty-four states’ laws concerning parental involvement
\n(As previously mentioned, Mom and Dad, you don\u2019t get to have a say \u2013 or even know \u2013 if some strange adult is killing your grandchild or risking the life of your own child through abortion surgery.) <\/p>\n

\u00b7 Forty-six states’ conscience protection laws for individual health care providers
\n(Christian, Jewish and Muslim doctors \u2013 you will perform abortions or lose your license to practice medicine. \u201cKill the unborn child or find another line of work,\u201d says the man who would be President.) <\/p>\n

\u00b7 Twenty-seven states’ conscience protection laws for institutions <\/p>\n

(Religious hospitals will be forced to perform abortions or shut down \u2013 period.) <\/p>\n

\u00b7 Thirty-eight states’ bans on partial-birth abortion <\/p>\n

(The horrific practice of partial-birth abortion, which is nothing short of infanticide, will once again be permitted and performed nationwide without restriction or encumbrance. This, despite the fact that the American Medical Association has held that PBA is never necessary under any circumstance.) <\/p>\n

\u00b7 Thirty-three states’ laws requiring counseling before an abortion <\/p>\n

\u00b7 Twenty-eight states’ laws requiring a waiting period before an abortion, and <\/p>\n

\u00b7 Sixteen states’ laws concerning ultrasounds before an abortion <\/p>\n

(Yet again, it\u2019s all about secrecy. Informed consent is the enemy of Planned Parenthood. The abortion industry is all too aware that the more a woman knows about the baby she\u2019s about to kill, the less likely she is to go through with it. An educated woman means dollars lost. That\u2019s why the abortion industry so desperately wants the \u201cinformed\u201d half of \u201cinformed consent\u201d removed.) <\/p>\n

So, to the Christian, the Muslim, the Jew \u2013 even to those who consider yourselves \u201ccommonsense pro-choicers,\u201d I say this: Don\u2019t be fooled. The man you\u2019re considering for the highest office in the land is an abortion extremist among extremists. His own words, actions and policies reveal him as such. <\/p>\n

Under a President Obama, true freedoms will be trampled, parental rights will be taken, and millions of lives will be lost. As demonstrated, to cast a vote for Barack Obama is to be complicit in the trampling of those freedoms, the taking of those rights, and the loss of that life. <\/p>\n

That\u2019s not a burden my conscience can bear. What about you?<\/p>\n

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LifeNews.com | Matt Barber | Nov. 2, 2008 Contrary to Obama\u2019s disingenuous rhetoric promising to \u201creduce the number of abortions,\u201d the Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA) would \u2013 with one stroke of the pen \u2013 remove every commonsense regulation placed on the abortion industry over the past three decades. Rather than reducing the already astronomical … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":497,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84,18,98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-defense-of-innocence","category-politics","category-pro-abortion-democrats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/497"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3057\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}