Jim Brown and Jody Brown - OneNewsNow - 5/15/2008 4:00:00 AMvar addthis_pub = 'onenewsnow';
Democratic presidential frontrunner Barack Obama has won an endorsement from one of the country's leading abortion advocacy groups -- the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League, which is known formally as "NARAL Pro-Choice America." One pro-life activist says the endorsement reveals just how "radical" Obama's views are on the issue of abortion.
NARAL's political action committee board was reportedly about evenly divided among Hillary Clinton and Obama supporters, yet it voted unanimously to back the Illinois senator. Calling him "the candidate of the future," NARAL president Nancy Keenan lauds Obama's pro-abortion stand on issues the group believes are closely related to their cause: "comprehensive" sex education, women's access to abortifacients (e.g., RU-486) at pharmacies, and women's increased access to abortion clinics and the services they offer.
NARAL has supported Clinton throughout her political career and, in fact, praised the New York senator in its press release announcing its endorsement of Obama, referring to her as "a pro-choice leader."
Wendy Wright, the president of Concerned Women for America, says NARAL's endorsement seemingly indicates Obama is even more "pro-abortion" than Clinton.
"And ... that may be hard to believe, considering the fact that Hillary Clinton supports partial-birth abortion ...," says Wright. "Barack Obama not only favors [that], but apparently also favors born-alive abortions -- that is, even if the baby's completely outside the woman."
Wright notes that even many conservative Christians are unaware that Obama vigorously opposed the Born Alive Infant Protection Act while he served in the Illinois Legislature. "So his opposition to a bill that would protect babies who are born alive seems to be go even farther than Hillary Clinton, who allowed [similar legislation] to pass through the Senate without opposing it," she notes.
During a recent presidential debate on CNN, when asked if life begins at conception, Senator Clinton would only say "the potential for life begins at conception," while Obama claimed it was something he had not "come to a firm resolution on."
women do have reproductive right, the right of not having baby, BEFORE they got pregrant.
but after conception, it involves another human being. And do abortion in this moment is no different then go outside and kill a baby, the only different is one is borned, not yet for the another one.