Barack Obama’s Views on Abortion

The more I delve into Barack Obama’s policies, the more I see a certain trend: question evasion.  According to Time.com, on August 17, 2008, Obama and McCain both fielded questions about abortion from Pastor Rick Warren in Lake Forest, California.  Warren simply asked, “At what point does a human being get human rights?” 

McCain: “At the point of conception.”
Obama: “Whether you’re looking at it from a theological perspective or a scientific perspective, answering that question with specificity is above my pay grade.”

Wow. Could the man be any more vague. Exactly what pay grade is there that is higher than one of the President of the United States? I don’t think one exists in the whole world.

I read up on some other blog sites, as well as on some news articles, and McCain was highly critized for “taking such a strong stand,” as numerous people put it.  Well, heaven forbid that someone take a stand! For the past eight years all we could get out of Bush was that he hoped to promote a “culture of life,” and all Obama can say is that he doesn’t get paid enough to answer that question. I don’t get paid a tenth of what Obama does, and I can say that I disagree with abortion!

I researched methods of abortion, and here are a few. I know that I could not do these acts as a parent:

Suction Aspiration: This method is used in the early stages of pregnancy. In clinical terms, manual vacuum aspiration, or MVA, involves the use of a manual syringe to remove the fetus by suction. An electric pump is used in the electric vacuum aspiration, or EVA. Basically, a hollow tube with a sharp edge is inserted into the uterus, and the fetus along with the placenta is sucked out into a bottle.

Dilation and Curettage, or D&C: This method is similar to Suction Aspiration, except that a curette, which is a surgical instrument that is shaped like scoop is inserted into the uterus, which is used to scrape out the fetus and the placenta. This method is carried out during the first trimester, and usually there is heavy bleeding.

Dilation and Evacuation, or D&E: This is performed after the third month of the pregnancy. The cervix is first dilated, and an instrument resembling pliers is inserted into the uterus. Then, the fetus’ body is removed piece by piece with the instrument, and the skull is pulled out after it is crushed.

Dilation and Extraction, or D&X: This method is usually used from the 4th month of pregnancy to the 9th month. In this, the fetus’s body is pulled out with the help of forceps. Since the head is too large by this time, surgical instruments are used to penetrate the skull and the brain sucked out in order to decompress the skull. This method is also referred to as ‘partial birth abortion’.

Prostaglandin Abortion: This is a hormone by which labor is induced. Usually, the fetus dies due to the trauma of the delivery. But, sometimes, when this procedure is carried at the later stages of pregnancy, the fetus is born alive. Hence, in order to prevent this from occurring, a drug is injected into the fetus’s heart first, and then the prostaglandin is administered, thus a dead fetus is aborted. Sometimes, this method is accompanied by the amniotic fluid being removed and the sac infused with corrosive solutions that contain urea or saline, prior to the prostaglandin being administered, to ensure the death of the fetus, which can take several hours. This procedure is used during the mid- to late-term of pregnancies.

In 1997, Obama voted against Illinois State Bill 230, which would ban partial birth abortions.  This legislation defined a fetus as a person, and would have banned partial birth abortions.

Mothers, can you support a man who says that it is okay to do the previous things to your baby?  Suck their brains out?  Scrape them out with a spatula?  Dismember them?  I hope not.

Remember, those who make the decisions about abortion are those people who were not aborted when they were a child.

Thanks to http://www.buzzle.com/articles/facts-about-abortion.html for the information.