Quote Originally Posted by sumbirdy View Post
Agree 100%

One of the things that I really don't like about Obama is his view of abortions. Not exactly the abortion itself (although I don't agree with abortion, who are we to say who lives or dies?) but the fact that if there ends up being a botched abortion, and the child is born alive, they should recieve no medical care. He's basically saying they don't matter. These are little babies, little Americans, and our PRESIDENT doesn't even care about them. Babies shouldn't be disposable. "Oh you got pregnant and don't want it? Go get rid of it!" It's sickening to me. I realize that a lot of people think abortions are up to the mother, it's their choice, but to me the idea of abortion is like someone saying they acquired a dog but found out they didn't want it, so they dropped it off on the side of the road, decided to get rid of it. I'm sure a lot of people here would protest to that, but hey, it's their choice right?
You hit the nail on the head. I still stand in amazement that this barbaric practice goes on in a civilied nation. Two things always come to mind when abortion comes up and I know we have discussed abortion here at PT ad nauseum but here they are:

1) The original Hippocratic oath state:
Similarly I will not give to a woman an abortive remedy. In purity and holiness I will guard my life and my art.

2)Secondly, now since the murder of Lacy Peterson we now have legislation that states that the murder of a pregnant woman counts as a double homicide. However, if your mother isn't murdered, but merely chooses to end your life, little one, you are doomed and it is OK.

How in the world can these two things be reconciled? I like the example that you give, Sumbirdy, to that of a dog. No one here would leave a puppy by the side of the road who had just been born and was found in distress. It would be put in a car and whisked off to a vet. But........ it's OK to do that to a human baby. I believe people in this country have been severely duped to accept this lie of choice. There is no choice for the child. The practice is immoral and barbaric.

Excuse me for this rant but this whole subject sickens me. May God forgive us.