The Consequences of Obama's Radical Pro-Abortion Views

At a recent campaign stop in Pennsylvania, Governor Sara Palin took off the gloves, charging that Barack Obama "hopes that you won’t notice how radical, absolutely radical his idea is on [abortion], and his record is, until it’s too late... Obama is a politician who has long since left behind even the middle ground on the issue of life."

Bravo for Governor Palin putting the issue of life back on the table!

As encouraged as I am with Governor Palin's remarks, I don't think it's enough to simply state that Obama's views are radical or extreme. Many Americans tune out such statements as mere negative political attacks, and the liberal media actively encourages this mistaken assumption. We need to take the gloves off and be very, very explicit about Obama's stated views on abortion and what the effects of those views are.

Senator Obama's voting record is clear. In Illinois he voted multiple times against a bill that would have protected babies that survive abortions and are living and breathing on their own outside their mother.

Furthermore, Obama pledges, as his first act as president, to sign the laughably titled "Freedom of Choice Act," the practical effect of which would be as astounding as it is sweeping. It would eliminate "every Federal, State, and local statute, ordinance, regulation, administrative order, decision, policy, practice, or other action enacted, adopted, or implemented before, on, or after" the date of its enactment. That means no restrictions of any kind on abortion at all, now and forever.

The practical effect of Obama signing this bill into law is frightening.

• 13-year-old girls will again be allowed to have abortions without their parents' knowledge or consent by striking down parental notification laws.
  
• Every tax-paying American will be forced to pay for the abortions of others with the removal of the prohibition against public funding of abortions.
  
• Abortionists will once again be able to bring babies completely trough the birth canal except for their heads before aborting them when the ban on partial birth abortions is lifted.
• Abortionists will no longer have to provide women information on the risks of abortion or other, non-abortion options to an unplanned pregnancy with the elimination of informed consent laws.
  

As Princeton Professor Robert George explains rather convincingly, Barack Obama is "the most extreme pro-abortion candidate ever to seek the office of President of the United States. He is the most extreme pro-abortion member of the United States Senate. Indeed, he is the most extreme pro-abortion legislator ever to serve in either house of the United States Congress."

We cannot be shy about this! We need to speak the truth and speak it loudly. Political views and votes have consequences and America needs to know the consequences of an Obama presidency on America's unborn babies.