*blinkblink* Wait, whut? Can I ask where you heard that? :| *staring blankly**just lost* Obama's campain centered alot around the values of family.... (Well, and strengthening the middle class and trashing Romney....) To be honest, I may not think I would ever personally get an abortion, but I think it's much better that it's legal than a bunch of girls go and get some back-alley abortions that kills them or their boyfriends beating the hell out of them because neither of them want kids and they think the only thing they can do is hit the girl until the baby dies. But that's my opinion. I can, however, say with certainty the news has never reported that President Obama wants to pass a bill to kill kids with chemicals (and that would certainly make front page news). I'm pretty sure he wouldn't have been re-elected, then. :ermm:
(Not trying to start a fight or anything...just sayin'....)
Then I guess Scandinavia (and half of Europe) is Hell already. Sounds a pretty attractive and progressive place to me though. I'd move there right now.
Infanticide? No, that would be places like India or China where they have culturally-engrained traditional "issues" with girls, and apparently little qualm with performing abortions on the basis of a child's sex. Obama not pushing for the protection of foetuses in or out of the womb— because of pre-existing laws that allow abortion or the scientific recognition of status as 'child' or 'lump of cells'— does not sensibly equate to him actually 'endorsing' infanticide.
This is what he said:
"Number one, whenever we define a previable fetus as a person that is protected by the equal protection clause or the other elements in the Constitution, what we’re really saying is, in fact, that they are persons that are entitled to the kinds of protections that would be provided to a — a child, a nine-month-old — child that was delivered to term. That determination then, essentially, if it was accepted by a court, would forbid abortions to take place. I mean, it — it would essentially bar abortions, because the equal protection clause does not allow somebody to kill a child, and if this is a child, then this would be an antiabortion statute. For that purpose, I think it would probably be found unconstitutional."
He didn't say "let's kill babies"; he said, this would invalidate existing abortion legislation, but of course certain people with agendas of their own have twisted this to imply he personally endorses infanticide and wants it to take place.
It was during one of his campaigns a few years ago. A guy asked him where he stands on abortion, or more specifically, when
life essentially begins. Obama's answer was: "I believe that life begins
when the woman says it does". He's pro-abortion, this is a fact and old news. If this is really what he believes, then he has no issue on the sub-categories of abortion, such as embryonic abortion (which is what birth control essentially becomes when you become sexually active),early abortion (in the first trimester) or late term abortion (2nd trimester onward) and, of course, partial-birth abortion - which is literally ONE BREATH away from infanticide. Abortion is abortion, whether it's through vacuum, seline injection, the abortion pill or D&C. He doesn't SAY he supports infanticide word for word but it's pretty obvious. His reasoning is absolutely pathetic and ignorant, too. At least try to use science or the medical viewpoint to anchor his beliefs, but no, he'd rather just go, 'hey, it's the woman's choice, I don't know wtf they're thinking but whatever makes them happy and gets me votes works for me'.
His answer was very revealing and also very diplomatic. I can honestly say that if Obama really is a Christian, as they keep repeating on radio here, then he would NOT have given his OK on abortion or on same sex marriage. Those are the two laws I know of so far, and I really don't want to know what other chaos he's allowed to become legal in America.
I can tell you what's going to happen next, but as it is I think a lot of people are going to hate me for criticizing their president. I wasn't being sarcastic or joking when I said goodbye America. Really. I've seen a country go to **** faster than it had been built up. Obama is NOT fixing things, or making anything better for anyone by saying 'YES WE CAN'. He's sitting back and saying, yeah, okay, whatever, if it's what you people want I'll give it to you. If he had weighed the pros and cons, ESPECIALLY considering he's 'supposedly Christian', he would have put his foot down and said, this isn't right, I can't let my country do this.
But whatever. I'm just happy I'm not in America.