What Has He Done? President Obama as State Senator in Illinois had the opportunity (on more than one occasion) to vote for a law which would require infants SURVIVING abortion to be given medical treatment and not left to die in the closets and trash bins. I have heard a recording of him speaking on why he would not support such a law. It’s clear in his words and tone that he STAUNCHLY lives for what he stands for, which is the right to have an abortion. It was more important to Obama that doctors not have any added burden to think about, in their practice of abortion (possibly cutting back on the number of doctors willing to perform abortions), than it was for any such infants be provided the opportunity to life. Mind you this was after hearing testimony of what happened to babies as a direct result of not having the protection of this law. Consider that should a baby survive the odds, no one wants to then be charged with murder for finishing off the baby. And maybe they actually can’t bring themselves to do such a horrible thing. However, they can’t really fathom saving the baby – because they were paid to end the baby’s life while in the mother’s womb. What to do? Well, what has been done is ugly and reprehensible. Without a law to clarify where the lines are, it will continue.
The cleanup from the inauguration was still going on at the end of Obama’s first week in office, when he signed an executive order stripping away years of pro-life legal progress, BECAUSE HE BELIEVED IN the RIGHT TO ABORTION THAT MUCH. With the stroke of his pen he authorized millions of dollars to be spent around the world for abortion, and more besides.
Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA) He plans to sign the Freedom of Choice Act into law. Which will STRIP the right to refuse to practice abortion from medical personnel. If he does, this will cause faith based hospitals (many serving low income communities) to choose to violate their faith or shut down the hospital. Some “freedom of choice”, huh?
The head of Health and Human Services, which he selected, is the most militantly pro abortion candidate for such a position ever. What a position to hold. She has relentlessly snuffed out any hint of a law protecting the lives of infants in the womb. Even in (and especially in)late term abortions and those who proudly advertise their practice of such “medicine”. And now she holds the title of “Health and Human Services” – what a parody of what those words mean.
Is it appropriate for a Catholic university to have President Obama give this commencement address, and be given an honorary degree by Notre Dame? The commencement speaker should ideally uphold the tenets of the educational establishment, one would think. Certainly we don’t all agree on all points. But if a person has used their authority, emphatically in opposition to principals of the sanctity of life, is it really living your belief system to say “hey, come on over, forget about it, confuse our message of life, and make sure these young people don’t know where we stand about anything, by giving the grand finale speech of their education, and while you’re here we will give you a degree because hey, you’re a swell guy, and it’s good for us to be so busy being “open minded” we don’t stand for anything.”
The QUESTION IS – DOES Notre Dame REALLY stand for what they believe, as much as President Obama stands for what he believes?
Discussion of opposing view points is for appropriate times and venues. If that was really the goal of the University, such an event could have been planned and held and would have been able to attract lots of attention. Worthy cause indeed. Because, yes, it’s important to know what and why you believe and be able to explain it and defend it when necessary.
It’s not appropriate to give someone the platform of the commencement address who has walked all over your belief system relentlessly and give them a degree, because it says YOU DON”T REALLY believe different from them after all. For Notre Dame it’s really a question of life and death. Obama has staked his claim. Looks like Notre Dame has, too.
