Obama made an offer, anyone else want to help me take him up on it?
I watched the Obama speech Nov 4th, 2008, and one thing he said is for those of us who didn’t give him our vote, give him a chance to earn your trust. I think that the pro-life community now needs to make contact with president elect Obama in a big way.
He has said that one of the first things he will do when he gets into office is sign FOCA, which would take away all restrictions on abortion. This includes parental notification laws. This includes restrictions on late term abortions that we all know all horrid, that even many abortion supporters recognize as murder. And tax payers would be forced to pay for it.
With him in the white house, the pro-choice community can feel safe that Row vs. Wade will not be overturned.
We need a massive email, letter and fax campaign to our house and senate representatives, but also to our future President Barrack Obama to say “Please do not sign FOCA. Row v. Wade cannot be overturned during your administration, but please don’t take away rights at the state level for parents to know what is happening with their minor children, and please do not make taxpayers pay for something we widely accept as murder”.
He said he wants to earn our trust. He said he wants to be our president too. We must make it clear that this is one issue, where if he signs this law, he cannot earn that trust. He cannot be our president if he’s making us pay for something we believe to be murder. The pro-life community right now is on damage control.
Please join me in this task. I don’t know who else has the type of contacts requires to make a good email campaign of it. Please pass this on to everyone you know. Forward it in email, photocopy the letter and send it out, put it on message boards and forums online. If we don’t make our voices heard then we have no right to complain when he signs the law. Please join me and write your representatives and president elect Barrack Obama.
It’s not like this letter campaign is requesting the overturn of Roe V. Wade. It’s merely asking that he doesn’t take it a step further.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0__ctD48nfQ&feature=related
Watch the video where he states it will be the first thing he’ll do.
No the president cannot do this alone, but if passed by the house and senate he has to sign it for it to become a reality. His refusal to sign could prevent it’s passing. Do your research.
He said he will not yield, but at that point he’s also putting proof to the lie that he wants to be everyone’s president, especially if a successful letter campaign is run so that there is no missing the voices of a large percentage of Americans who are NOT ok with this
lastunta… whatever your name is-
I think that people should and did speak out against the war to Bush. I think there are many people who do not consider him THEIR president. I do not think it neccesary to be patriotic. I think you SHOULD question and disagree with your leaders, and I will not be a little pushover on an issue I’m passionate about. I disagreed with the war in Iraq and I did right my representatives. I didn’t vote for McCain. I voted 3rd party because I refuse to vote the lesser of two evils.
PS- civic participation is not merely voting once every 4 years. How can your representatives represent YOU unless you contact them?
Spectator- the freedom of choice act is different from his health care plan. Read it.
It lifts the ban on partial birth abortion. It takes away parental notification laws active in 34 states (which have resulted in lower rates of abortion, teen birth AND teen STD rates)
Come on people, do any of you research things?
Spectator- the freedom of choice act is different from his health care plan. Read it.
It lifts the ban on partial birth abortion. It takes away parental notification laws active in 34 states (which have resulted in lower rates of abortion, teen birth AND teen STD rates)
Posted on December 20th, 2009 in Civic Participation |
December 23rd, 2009 at 5:36 am
Knock yourself out. Obama is pro choice. Write all you like…that won’t change.
December 25th, 2009 at 2:58 pm
>>He has said that one of the first things he will do when he gets into office is sign FOCA, which would take away all restrictions on abortion.
Please state your source for this. I doubt very, very seriously he said this.
The President of the United States does not this much power. (If so, why didn’t Bush sign something similar taking away all rights to abortion?)
December 27th, 2009 at 9:22 pm
Obama must unite the country in order to have a solid effort for the upliftment of the economy.
December 28th, 2009 at 12:08 pm
As much as abortion may be detestable on a personal level, I do not think that parental issues are a matter of Federal law.
Nonetheless, if it will ease your mind on this issue, excluding children I think Row v. Wade was an appropriate ruling as was the overturning of Bowers v Hardwick.
The bottom line is that the US government has no business telling an individual what to do with their reproductive organs or how they will orient themselves sexually.
In short, *** is an off-limits issue except, of course, where children are concerned and even then Federal jurisdiction is limited to the Commerce Clause.
I need not join Mr. Obama. I am certain that there are many Democratic lawmakers who know their limits and know that in 2 years they could all be out fast.
All I am waiting for is a new “Contract with America” except this time, leave the religious and personal stuff out and stick with the economy, national security and international and interstate issues.
The Constitution was meant in my opinion to be a signal to the Federal government that its reach is limited. It can declare abortion legal, it can decriminalize homosexuality. But it cannot go beyond the guarantees of personal privacy and rights against the government’s intrusion into them. Everything else is appropriate.
As a Republican I am incensed that the far right side of the party has impressed its mark on every candidate and in its ceaseless march, drowned out the voices of the rest of us who, by the way, disagree with the Democrats on numerous issues but otherwise are still realistic in our view of the human condition.
December 29th, 2009 at 6:58 pm
“He cannot be our president if he’s making us pay for something we believe to be murder.”
So what about the liberals who think that they were being made to pay for murder with the Iraq War? Does that mean that Bush isn’t their president? That’s what I **** about special interests like you guys - you can’t deal with the fact that tax dollar A can’t be made to do something different from tax dollar B. The government is _always_ going to do things that some people don’t agree with, even vehemently don’t agree with. You certainly should try to change it if you don’t like it, but statements like “he cannot be our president” are childish and irresponsible, whether ultra-conservatives or ultra-liberals are uttering them. When the government does something you like you’re all like “all patriotic Americans should support the president” but when it’s something you don’t like, suddenly patriotism vanishes from the discussion. Conservatives, liberals, you’re all a bunch of hypocrites who are more interested in your own opinions than the public good.
December 31st, 2009 at 3:32 am
I think someone overstated the case. The Jesus freaks will never give up until any woman who has an abortion for any reason is arrested, tried and convicted of murder in the first degree and executed. The same goes for birth control….given a free hand, these folks would outlaw the use of any ‘artificial’ birth control measure or devise. Don’t be fooled by these people. Churches are private clubs. Their rules may apply to the members of their club but not to people outside their organization. Yet these Jesus churches want the government to enforce THEIR rules everyone. These are dangerous people. No kiddin’!
December 31st, 2009 at 10:54 am
while I do not like that women (and men supporting) have abortions because of convenience factors, I will not join you in writing, I do not believe that my own personal feelings on the subject should be imposed on others by our government.
“please don’t take away rights at the state level for parents to know what is happening with their minor children,”
ummm, if people are so out of touch with their children, is it really the government’s job to babysit and make sure they are told what their child is doing - who is 1 in 300 million (and on down for state populations) NO. Our government upholds what is equal for all.
January 1st, 2010 at 6:10 am
I believe you are misled when you say that “tax payers will be forced to pay for it.” Abortion is only considered therapeutic in fairly rare cases where maternal life is threatened, and I don’t think a lot of little children are going to be in that situation and thus be aided in abortion by Obama’s healthcare plan.
January 2nd, 2010 at 1:18 pm
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