John McCain Pro Life? What A Joke!

by Dr. Chuck Baldwin - August 22, 2008

Once again, "pro-life" Christians are doing back flips to try and justify their compromise of the life issue by trying to convince everyone (including themselves) that John McCain is truly pro-life. However, these same people know in their hearts that John McCain shares no fidelity to the life issue in any significant or meaningful way. Like many in the Republican Party, McCain's commitment to life is about as deep as a mud puddle.

Dare I remind everyone that the "pro-life" GOP controlled the entire federal government from 2000 to 2006 and nothing was done to overturn Roe v. Wade or end legal abortion-on-demand? When George W. Bush took the oath of office in January of 2001, over one million innocent unborn babies were being murdered in the wombs of their mothers every year via legal abortions in this country. And when George W. Bush leaves office in January of 2009, over one million innocent unborn babies would still be murdered in the wombs of their mothers every year via legal abortions in this country. Eight years of a "pro-life" President and six years of the "pro-life" GOP in charge of the entire federal government and not one unborn baby's life has been saved. Roe v. Wade is still the law of the land, and abortion-on-demand is still legal in America.

Had John McCain and his fellow Republicans truly wanted to end legal abortion, they could have passed Congressman Ron Paul's Sanctity of Life Act. Year after year, Dr. Paul introduced this bill, and year after year, it sat and collected dust in the document room on Capitol Hill.

What would Congressman Paul's bill do? It would do two things: 1) It would define life as beginning at conception and, thus, declare the personhood of every pre-born child. 2) Under Article. III. Section. 2. of the U.S. Constitution, it would remove abortion from the jurisdiction of the Court. In practical terms, Dr. Paul's bill would overturn Roe v. Wade and end legal abortion-on-demand. So, where was John McCain? Why did he not support Ron Paul's bill and introduce a companion bill in the U.S. Senate?

How can John McCain, and his fellow Republicans in Washington, D.C., look pro-life Christians and conservatives in the eye in 2008 and expect that we take them seriously when they say that they are "pro-life"? If the GOP had truly wanted to overturn Roe v. Wade and end legal abortion-on-demand, they could have already done it. They controlled the White House, the U.S. Senate, and the House of Representatives for six long years, for goodness sake. The reason they did not do it is because they did not want to do it. They merely want to use "pro-life" rhetoric as a campaign tool to dupe gullible Christian voters every election year. And the disgusting thing about it is--it works.

The vast majority of notable "pro-life" leaders in the country are now trumpeting the candidacy of John McCain. And the best challenge they can come up with is "McCain better not pick a 'pro-choice' Vice President." Oh, shut up (to quote Jay Leno)!

John McCain openly embraces embryonic stem cell research. In 2000, he boldly said he did not favor the overturn of Roe v. Wade. John McCain was a member of the infamous "Gang of 14" senators from both parties whose purpose was to oppose pro-life, strict constructionist judges.

Speaking of judges, John McCain voted for the pro-abortion justice, Stephen Breyer, and the radical, pro-abortion, ACLU attorney, Ruth Bader Ginsburg. So much for the argument that we need John McCain for the sake of appointing conservative justices to the Supreme Court. For that matter, Republican appointments dominated the Court that gave us Roe v. Wade and the one that later gave us Doe v. Bolton. Proving, once again, that the Republican Party, as a whole, has no real commitment to the life issue.

John McCain also gave us McCain-Feingold. This is the law that keeps pro-life or pro-Second Amendment organizations from broadcasting ads that mention a candidate by name 30 days before a primary election or 60 days before a general election. This proves that John McCain believes neither in the right to life nor the right to keep and bear arms. (This is one reason why the Gun Owners of America gives McCain a grade of F.)

In a debate with George W. Bush in May of 2000, John McCain attacked Bush's support for the pro-life plank in the Republican Party. Still today, John McCain believes that babies who are conceived via rape or incest should be murdered. I remind readers, however, that there are no "exceptions" in the womb, only babies.

If all of the above is not enough, as a senator, John McCain has repeatedly voted to fund pro-abortion providers such as Planned Parenthood with federal tax dollars. In fact, McCain has voted to use federal tax dollars to support abortion providers at home and overseas. Yes, this "pro-life" senator (along with "pro-life" President, George W. Bush) has significantly increased federal spending for abortion providers to levels eclipsing even the appropriations authorized by President Bill Clinton and his fellow Democrats.

John McCain also supports the United Nations, which not only works to strip the United States of its independence and sovereignty, and banish our right to keep and bear arms, but is also the most radical, pro-abortion organization in the entire world. More babies have been aborted around the world under the auspices of the U.N. than any other single entity.

Tell me again, Mr. Christian Leader, how "pro-life" John McCain is. What a joke!

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Groups plan protest over Obama's pro-abortion views

Barack Obama's abortion stance - Dem. convention August protest planned - AP story on OneNewsNow, followed by reader comments. - June 22, 2008

Pro-Lifers Encouraged to Picket NEA Convention & State HQs

Seize Opportunity of Extraordinary Media Presence as NEA Delegates Endorse Obama

Contact: Bob Pawson, National Coordinator, Pro-Life Educators And Students, 609-610-3522 BobPawson@ProLifeEducators.com

WASHINGTON, June 23 /Christian Newswire/ -- Pro-Lifers are urged to go picket the National Education Association leadership's abortion policies, actions, and agenda at the Washington Convention Center on July 2nd between 10:00AM and 2:00PM or NEA-State-Affiliate-HQs across America from 11:00AM through 1:00PM.

"We're asking pro-life teachers, parents, students, clergy, and everybody else to come. Bring your pro-life friends, family members, and picket signs," said Bob Pawson, National Coordinator of Pro-Life Educators And Students, primary sponsor of the event.

"This is an incredibly unique media opportunity for Pro-Lifers. National and worldwide press coverage at NEA's Convention should be massive because of NEA's press release stating that NEA's 9,000 delegates will 'vote to recommend that NEA's 3.2 million members support Barack Obama'. Obama will address the teachers at the NEA convention," said Pawson, an NEA-NJEA teacher from Trenton.

"Pro-lifers should give hundreds of TV crews, reporters, photographers, and radio microphones something wonderfully out-of-the-ordinary to report. NEA leaders pride themselves on doing the picketing; not being the target of picketing; especially on a nationwide scale by coalitions of pro-life NEA members, taxpayer parents, and students – the very people NEA supposedly serves," said Pawson.

"It is vital that individual pro-lifers reading or hearing this report commit themselves to personally attending these demonstrations. Your presence is needed and appreciated. Please recruit and mobilize others. Help rebuke the NEA leadership's abortion activism."

Pawson says, "Pro-Life NEA members across America should run for union office at all levels; especially to become delegates to the NEA Convention. Help repeal NEA's obnoxious 'Reproductive Freedom' resolution and policy statements regarding issues like Roe v Wade. Let's restore good stewardship over our profession, our students, our union, and our dues monies. Reforming and rescuing the NEA is long overdue. We Christian and Pro-Life NEA members can implement the necessary changes – from within. Let's go!"

Confirmed July 2 Pro-Life Press Conference Speakers:
Becky Banks – Students for Life of America
Jim Sedlak – American Life League
Rev. Clenard H. Childress – BlackGenocide.org
Peter Shinn – ProLife Unity
Missy Smith – Women Against Killing and Exploitation of Unprotected Persons
John Tomicki – League of American Families
Judy Bruns – Teachers Saving Children (NEA-Delegate)
Sissy Jochmann – NEA Conservative Educators Caucus (NEA-Delegate)
Bob Pawson – ProLife Educators And Students (NEA member)

Pro-Life leaders wishing to participate in the press conference should contact Bob Pawson.

Links: www.ProLifeEducators.com

Previous News Release
Pro-Life Leaders Promoting Nationwide Prayer&Picket of NEA

NARAL Pro-Choice America backs Obama

Copyrighted AP story on Yahoo! News ...more

May 14, 2008

Show Me the Money [Planned Parenthood]

Defund Planned Parenthood’s Billion Dollar Industry

Washington, D.C. — Concerned Women for America (CWA) will join with Students for Life in a silent protest to bring attention to the issues surrounding the nation’s largest abortion provider. Planned Parenthood currently receives over $330 million annually from local, state and federal government. They are the top recipient of Title X funds, which provides federal funds for family planning services.

Allegations are swirling that Planned Parenthood may violate state laws by underreporting the cases of statutory rape. And that’s not all. Most recently, the former Vice President of Finance and Administration for the Los Angeles Planned Parenthood office has accused California Planned Parenthood of defrauding taxpayers of nearly $180 million. In Kansas, Planned Parenthood and abortion provider George Tiller are allegedly performing late-term abortions and forging documents. Undercover videos and audio have surfaced on such sites as YouTube, where Planned Parenthood providers guarantee that money received will go to perform abortions on minorities.

Wendy Wright, President of CWA, said, “Planned Parenthood has been mired in scandal since its inception and faces criminal charges now, yet it rakes in obscene amounts of money from the government. Taxpayers should not be forced to subsidize this controversial organization that is legitimately accused of racism.”

Planned Parenthood has doubled its “excess of revenue over expenses” from $56 million in 2005 to $112 million in 2006 while performing just under 290,000 abortions in 2006.

For the aforementioned reasons, Shari Rendall, CWA’s Director of Legislation and Public Policy, said, “Planned Parenthood should not receive federal funds while such serious allegations surround the organization. We urge Members of Congress to pass Rep. Mike Pence’s (R-Indiana) bill, Title X Abortion Provider Prohibition Act, to ‘prohibit family planning grants from being awarded to any entity that performs abortions, and for other purposes.’”

[press release 4/24/2008]

For Information Contact: Natalie Bell, (202) 488-7000
media.cwfa.org

Abortion Supporter Knocks 69 Yr. Old Pro-Lifer Unconscious, Media Silent

By Warner Todd Huston - Jan. 3, 2008

On December 22nd a 69 year-old pro-life activist who was standing atop his automobile and protesting in front of the Hillcrest Abortion Clinic in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania was physically attacked by an abortion supporter and thrown to the ground with enough force to knock him unconscious. Doctors even worried for a time that the elderly man might perish from the attack. And here, nearly 7 days out from this attack, there aren’t any accounts of the attack in the MSM. As I searched for the story myself, I found two and only two Internet hits for it. Why the silence from the MSM? Can you imagine the MSM swarm that would have occurred if it had been a pro-lifer that attacked an abortion supporter? The cacophony would have been deafening if a pro-lifer had been the one to get violent.

The American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property issued the first story to hit the net a few days ago. Also, a Catholic PRWire and media advisory from Catholic Online was released on the 28th. But the MSM has remained silent on the matter.

Here is the account from the TFP:

When Mr. Snell tried to counsel the woman, his words were cut short when the man became furious, jumped the fence and, in the words of Mr. McTernan, “leaped on the vehicle with Ed and catapulted him off of the vehicle and onto the ground.” Mr. Snell hit his back and head on the pavement and was knocked unconscious.

His medical report outlines the extent of his injuries: “multiple trauma, right subarachnoid hemorrhage (bleeding in the area between the brain and the tissues that cover the brain), compression fractures of four vertebrae (T3, T4, T5 and T10), right scapula fracture and fracture of the fourth and fifth ribs.” Before doctors were able to stop the bleeding in his head, they even feared Mr. Snell would die.

An elderly man almost dies from an attack by an abortion supporter and the MSM is mum.

But, the receptionist at the clinic sure wasn’t mum!

When asked on the phone about the vicious attack, the receptionist at Hillcrest Abortion Clinic refused to give a recorded statement and angrily shouted: “He got what he deserved! He earned what he got!” She then hung up the phone.

Again, can you imagine the high dudgeon with which the MSM would have reported this story if it was the pro-lifer saying that an abortion supporter “got what he deserved” should one had been attacked like this?

And, on top of this indignity, the Harrisburg police didn’t seem to want to do their duty and arrest the attacker at first, letting the man go home after witnesses pointed him out as the assailant.

Ed was taken away in an ambulance and three police officers arrived to investigate. They went into the clinic, where the assailant was waiting. After a few moments, the assailant and his companion left the clinic freely, got into their car and drove away.

Shocked, Mr. McTernan shouted to the police: “What are you doing? That’s him! That’s the assailant!”

One cop replied: “It is none of your business!”

To “protect and serve,” eh? Apparently not to serve the victim of a vicious attack in this case.

So, why the widespread disinterest by the MSM over this story? It can only be because the wrong guy got attacked.

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Warner Todd Huston is a Chicago based freelance writer, has been writing opinion editorials and social criticism since early 2001 and is featured on many websites such as newsbusters.org, townhall.com, New Media Journal, Men’s News Daily and the New Media Alliance among many, many others. Additionally, he has been a frequent guest on talk-radio programs to discuss his opinion editorials and current events. He has also written for several history magazines and appears in the new book “Americans on Politics, Policy and Pop Culture” which can be purchased on amazon.com. He is also the owner and operator of publiusforum.com. Feel free to contact him with any comments or questions : EMAIL Warner Todd Huston

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On the road to Rodham and Gomorrah

By Mark Crutcher - worldnetdaily.com - Oct. 18, 2007

America's largest abortion profiteer, Planned Parenthood, is opening new facilities across the country and using deception and dishonesty to do so. In one high-profile example, the organization recently completed construction on a new 22,000-square-foot state-of-the-art death camp in Aurora, Ill., that they readily admit was built with its true purpose and real owner's identity intentionally concealed from the public. ...