OBAMA ABORTION RECORD

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Obama Abortion Record Scored
THE PRESIDENT OF FIDELIS, a Catholic pro-life group, issued a statement earlier this month, reports Jim Brown for OneNewsNow.com, news outlet for the American Family Assn., responding to the appearance of expected Democratic Presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama at a “Women for Obama” rally in New York City, alongside Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY).
“What you have to look at here,” said Fidelis President Brian Burch, quoted by Mr. Brown, “‘is [Sen.] Obama’s quotes and his record together, particularly where it matters. Not in TV interviews, not in fancy magazines, not where the media’s able to spin his position in the way that they hope to,” said Mr. Burch, “but in front of the people that it matters most, namely Planned Parenthood, NARAL and specifically as a legislator himself.’
“[Mr.] Burch says,” writes Mr. Brown, “those who justify their support for Obama with the belief that he would enact policies to reduce abortions in America have yet to cite anything specific that he is willing to commit to in order to do that. ‘We would never allow a candidate to receive our support who says, “I want to reduce the number of slaves in America — but I am 100% committed to keep slavery legal,” the Catholic activist suggests,” reports Mr. Brown.
Mr. Obama’s opponent, likely GOP Presidential nominee John McCain, “brought up his pro-life record on abortion” at a town hall meeting in Kansas City, Missouri, some 10 days ago, reports Peter J. Smith for LjfeSiteNews.com citing the Wall Street Journal as source, and “came out swinging” at his opponent “over the latter’s stand on abortion.”
Sen. McCain declared he is “proud of my record of protecting and advocating the rights of the unborn,” reports Mr. Smith. The Arizona Republican added, reports LfeSiteNews, “that the noblest words ever written were those in the Declaration of Independence that outlined the rights to ‘life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.’ ‘Life means the rights of the born and the unborn,’ [Sen.] McCain continued,” writes Mr. Smith.
“[Mr.] McCain then blasted [Sen.1 Obama for opposing a ban on partial birth abortion,” reports Mr. Smith. “My friends, that’s a hideous procedure. It should never be allowed any place on earth,’ he said” in the LfeSiteNews report. Other news reports indicate he further objected to Mr. Obama’s defense of medical neglect of newborn abortion survivors.