Obama's Extreme Pro-Abortion Stand

In my earlier post "Eyes Wide Open" I alluded to the positions embraced by the Presidential Candidate Barack Obama. A friend in response to my post questioned whether my interpretation of his support for certain policies was accurate or perhaps misunderstood. Rather than re-invent the wheel, I heard a very learned and prestigious law professor who had recently written an essay on this issue along with the various authoritative cites supporting the information I expressed in my prior post. I am therefore merely going to post a link to the essay and adopt in extenso his arguments which I agree with from both a legal as well as spiritual standpoint.

http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/viewarticle.php?selectedarticle=2008.10.14_George_Robert_Obama%27s%20Abortion%20Extremism_.xml

As a short aside, another friend of mine made a comment on the abortion debate with a very accurate observation... the position most people have with regard to abortion is usually dictated by their world view of whether they believe that individuals are a product of design or chance. More specifically whether there is an overriding belief that a universal creator has designed each of us and intended each individual to be conceieved and created versus a random act of conception perpetrated by the collision of lust, love or physical activity that results in the development of an eventual human. Inevitably, the dominant world view a person holds usually dictates their belief on this issue.

Although I probably risk belaboring the point, I just can't shake the belief that we stand on the precipice of electing a world leader (by default the POTUS is a prominent world leader) who by his own admission, prior support and committements to various interested groups has indicated that he will take several explicit steps in the area of abortion. Unlike pre-Hitler Germany, we have a clear picture of explicitly what this leader plans to do. Please ask yourself a question, we already hold the German people partially responsible for allowing the Nazis and Hitler to come to power based upon what they eventually did. Do we believe that we will fair any better in the final analysis, when it is blatantly clear that we elected an individual who explicitly made these promises about what steps he would take to advance his agenda on this social issue. Sadly, I believe we will be perceived to share in the blood on his hands, both figuratively and literally.

Although it has been argued by many that a candidate may be supported without adopting their views on every issue, I believe that this argument rings hollow on a critical social issue that will impact millions, when we know explicitly what an individual's rise to power will include. While we may argue that our support was only economic in nature, we vote with full knowledge that the other "baggage" is included.