Follow Up Post - Sadly, Obama's More Extreme Than I Thought

I discovered Professor Robert P. George today. I don't know a lot about the man, except that he's a Professor at Princeton and serves on the President's Council on Bioethics, among other things.


A few days ago an article by George appeared on The Witherspoon Institute's Public Discourse page. Entitled "Obama's Abortion Extremism", Dr. George cites just how extreme Obama's views (and voting record) are when it comes to not only abortion, but clone-and-kill policy, etc.

Yes, I wrote clone-and-kill. One of the more disturbing things I learned about in George's article is that "Obama has co-sponsored a bill-strongly opposed by McCain-that would authorize the large-scale industrial production of human embryos for use in biomedical research in which they would be killed. In fact, the bill Obama co-sponsored would effectively require the killing of human beings in the embryonic stage that were produced by cloning. It would make it a federal crime for a woman to save an embryo by agreeing to have the tiny developing human being implanted in her womb so that he or she could be brought to term."


Any Evangelical Christian considering voting for Obama really needs to read the article. It's somewhat long, but by no means dry or boring. I learned a lot.

The idea that by voting in Obama we'll be helping more disadvantaged people economically, again, rings hollow when considering the fact that he has even opposed helping women in crisis pregnancies:

Senator Obama, despite the urging of pro-life members of his own party, has not endorsed or offered support for the Pregnant Women Support Act, the signature bill of Democrats for Life, meant to reduce abortions by providing assistance for women facing crisis pregnancies. In fact, Obama has opposed key provisions of the Act, including providing coverage of unborn children in the State Children's Health Insurance Program (S-CHIP), and informed consent for women about the effects of abortion and the gestational age of their child. This legislation would not make a single abortion illegal. It simply seeks to make it easier for pregnant women to make the choice not to abort their babies. Here is a concrete test of whether Obama is "pro-choice" rather than pro-abortion. He flunked. Even Senator Edward Kennedy voted to include coverage of unborn children in S-CHIP. But Barack Obama stood resolutely with the most stalwart abortion advocates in opposing it.

And this is compassionate liberalism?

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