A series of TV and radio ads began to hit airwaves this week in key battleground states to counter recent claims by a pro-Obama Christian group that the Illinois senator is the most pro-life candidate out of the two major presidential contenders.
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(Photo: AP Images / Hector Mata)Waiters work under a television screen showing Democratic Presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama speaking during the first presidential debate, at a restaurant in Los Angeles, Friday, Sept 26, 2008.
Family Research Council Action PAC announced Tuesday that it was launching an initial $100,000 TV and radio ad campaign to “educate voters” on Sen. Barack Obama’s promise to make the “radical” Freedom of Choice Act his top priority as president.
“The ‘Freedom of Choice Act’ will overturn virtually all federal and state limitations on abortion,” the conservative public policy and advocacy group warned.
FOCA would make partial-birth abortion legal again, repeal all parental notice laws on abortion, and provide unlimited tax funding of abortion, said FRC Action PAC president Tony Perkins.
"Senator Barack Obama has done his best to hide his radical views from voters. Four times as an Illinois legislator, he voted against laws that would have ensured equal medical care for babies that survive an abortion attempt,” he added.
“Last year, when he addressed Planned Parenthood he declared that his 'first act' as President would be to sign the Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA) into law. This ad campaign will spotlight Senator Obama's radical pledge to Planned Parenthood.”
The FRC ad campaign is in response to the recent Matthew 25 website called www.prolifeproobama.com that claims Obama, who has a 100 percent pro-choice Senate voting record, is more pro-life than McCain, who has a 100 percent pro-life Senate voting record.
Matthew 25, a group of pastors and Christians who endorse Obama, argues that the Illinois senator’s economic and health care plans as well as his proposed programs would do more to reduce abortions in America than the policies supported by his Republican rival.
“After 35 years, a new approach is needed,” writes Douglas W. Kmiec, the site’s spokesman. “Too many unborn lives are being lost as we wait for judges to get it right."
“Barack Obama's strengthening of support for prenatal care, health care, maternity leave, and adoption will make the difference," maintains the former professor and dean of the law school at The Catholic University of America.
But in stark contrast, the opposing FRC ads state, "Barack Obama: dangerous values."
"What would you do as president? Fix the economy, end the war, restore our schools?" the ad says in the beginning. The ad then shows Obama stating that the first thing he'd do as president is sign the Freedom of Choice Act.
"Really? Obama's top priority as president will be a law to reinstate partial-birth abortion?" the ad continues.
It further quotes Obama as saying, "On this fundamental issue, I will not yield and Planned Parenthood will not yield."
Initial ads will run this week in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Colorado, and Michigan, with additional television commercials airing in the Washington, D.C. area.
Radio ads will target Christian radio stations that earlier this year carried the Matthew 25 campaign.
Obama and McCain face off for the third and final presidential debate Wednesday night. McCain currently trails Obama by 8 percent in national polls.
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Im against abortion because God is; why?
No child is a mistake before birth or inside the womb. We as followers of Christ need to back our opinions with facts. These facts are in the Bible. Abortion is against Gods will! Read Jeremiah 1:5, psalms 139.
It is evident that even before we are born, we are sawn together in our mothers womb. We are perfectly made to do our calling as Christians which is better explained in Jeremiah 1.
The main thing is the most powerful gift given when we are born. Love. Its not the mother of a new-born that makes her child attracted to her, its love between them two. "God is Love". Its the shortest scripture in the Bible but the most powerful.
Taking this gift from a "prophet" is by far the most cruel thing you can do and anyone who supports this act of selfishness, is just as cruel. This is not a judgement but a stated fact. Also. anyone who supports this cruelty is clearly not following Christ and following His walk.
Its clear that it is Gods will that a child be born. When Adam and Eve ate the apple they opened our ability of choice here on earth. Anyone would have done it. Following this act, we as believers or non-believers have the ability to choice between good and evil. Abortion is evil and this cruelty will for sure be judged on Jesus return.
You can call yourself a christian all the days of your life but a true Christian is a believer in faith not ignorance. Christians have God as their footstool not morality or common understanding. God tells Christians that our believe in Him will shine so that all will see so that no label should have to be placed.
Are you shining or following your understandings? God tells us not to "lean on our own understandings"
So, is that it ifeelfine? You simply attempt to shrug off my second argument without justifiable reason, without even touching the other ones?
1. You made formed the Genesis Fallacy.
2. You made a categorical error.
3. You have not made the case that somebody who does in fact commit such horrific crimes as molesting, dismembering, cannibalizing and all to a mother of three - should not justifiably be served with capital punishment.
4. The above being said, how that Catholics being one of the front-runners in the pro-life movement who are also against capital punishment are simply irrelevant.
5. Do you believe that God has rightful claims to distribute justice, including the ultimate capital punishment?
Once you answer each of these responses and in addition satisfy everyone's curiosity as to how you personally have the authority to hold "pro-lifers" accountable to your standards, then and only then can you rightfully continue your accusations.
I respect people who fight to show that all life is precious. The biggest problem is that the Republican Party is in no way shape or form a reflection of Christian values. The leaders of the party have done nothing on abortion, they never do. It's about money with them. It's always about money. That's idol worship and it causes more separation from God than killing does.
ifeelfine, a man like you who will stand for nothing will fall for anything as you're view on this issue clearly shows. You are unwilling to take a stand on issues that are clearly spelled out in the Bible so in turn you ridicule those of us who do. If you choose to define pro-life that way knock yourself out and we'll continue to define pro-life our way and we'll continue to stand for that view as well.
seedplanter: you couldn't be more wrong. There is no categorical error. You're placing your value on human life. Are people on death row alive or not? Obviously they are. Well, what is their value then?
ifeelfine, so what is your point since no where in the Bible are we called to be called pro-lifers? But please do explain how my response to your challenge could be used to support abortion?
ifeelfine, you are implementing what is traditionally called the Genesis Fallacy. For example: If a paranoid schizophrenic said that there is a secret society that is infiltrating the American government - if it is true it makes no difference who said it, why he said it or how crazy he is.
The difference is whether or not it is true.
You are also making a categorical error. You are confusing the sanctity of life, which specifically targets innocent little helpless babies and the ethical ramifications of utilizing capitol punishment for criminals of humanity (i.e. someone who kidnaps, mutilates and murders an innocent child).
There really is no ambiguity here, try all you like. This is a classic postmodern tactic to discredit the opposition. Logic is not one of their strong points.
Furthermore, Catholics who have been a leader in the charge against abortion do not support the death penalty anyway. They are the ones who are refusing to give Biden and Gore communion.
But then again that wouldn't faze you...
...you probably don't even think that God has a right to execute justice since it is within him that we discover life is sacred.
Postmodern spirituality has more in common with atheism than New Testament Christianity.
believer: Obviously you are not pro-life. If you were, you wouldn't be for the death penalty . . . I know those people are alive when they're killed.
Your arguement could be made for abortion too you know and its equally ridiculous there.
ifeelfine, we are pro-life that's why many of us support the death penalty in order to hopefully keep others from blatantly taking the lives of innocent people.
ifeelfine72, do you follow the word of God in any area of your life?
Many of you are not pro-life as you claim but just anti-abortion. Many of you support the death penalty. So if you do, stop claiming to be "pro-life" when in reality you're "pro-death."
If human life is intrisicly valuable, then it makes no difference whether that life is three months old or a hundred and three - it is worth protecting.
Obama wants to rewrite the US Constitution to overthrow all the state rights and laws which were implimented by tax paying citizens - forcing them into the slaughter of the innocent.
That's Obama!
That's the change that we can believe in!
Obama has already promised Planned Parenthood that this would be the first assignment accomplished on his desk. Forget about "we the people" it doesn't matter if the majority want to limit abortions - this is Obama city!
agent,
I think you might be mixing up ru-486 (which was the drug JC was refering to) and the plan B birth control product.
They do not contain the same ingredients. ru-486 is in fact an abortion "pill". plan B is called a birth control substance, but both plan B and birth contol pills can in fact abort a fertilized egg, through the hormone progesterone
>>>Plan B works like other birth control pills to prevent pregnancy. Plan B acts primarily by stopping the release of an egg from the ovary (ovulation). It may prevent the union of sperm and egg (fertilization). If fertilization does occur, Plan B may prevent a fertilized egg from attaching to the womb (implantation). If a fertilized egg is implanted prior to taking Plan B, Plan B will not work.<<<
http://www.fda.gov/cder/drug/infopage/planB/planBQandA.htm
Hope this helps clear up any confusion.
huh. So are you saying that if our lifestyle might be adversely affected, its OK to kill? I'm not speaking of our lives themselves, but lifestyle.
JC,
"You have said that these eggs need to be protected, but not human fetesus, just because there are less of them?"
I am not advocating desctroing human fetuses here, I would draw a distinction between a small featus and a cluster of blastocyst cells. Again, the turtles are protected b/c they are endagered, which is directly linked to our lifestyle and how its affected them to be nearly extinct.
"Life should be preserved, at all cost."
Tell that to those who are openly pro-death penalty then. If all life is sacred, or at least important, then explain why people like Palin think it's ok to murder wolves from a helicopter.