“(F)or the killing of the innocent
is never fulfilling
God’s will; in fact, it’s the ultimate betrayal of God’s
will.
“Today, we profess the principles
we know to be true. We
believe that each of us is ‘wonderfully made’ in the image
of God. We, therefore,
believe in the inherent dignity of every human being ‑‑
dignity that no earthly
power can take away.”
The quote
above was not taken
from a speech by a prolife pastor. It was not used during a
Sanctity of Human Life
Sunday service. It was not spoken by the leader of a prolife
organization.
Believe it or
not, the words above
were actually spoken by an advocate of abortion on demand.
These words were spoken
by President Barack Obama.
During the
National Prayer Breakfast
on February 6, 2014, President Barack Obama spoke words that
could have easily been
emitted from the mouth of a prolife leader. Without a hint of
irony, President Obama
affirmed three simple truths prolifers have been advocating
for decades: each human
being is wonderfully made, has inherent dignity, and killing
innocent human beings
is wrong. He even quotes Psalm 139, a favorite of the prolife
movement, which tells
us that we’re “fearfully and wonderfully made.”
Only a few
weeks early, President
Obama released a statement on the 41st anniversary
of Roe v. Wade calling
on the nation to “recommit”
itself to the “guiding principle” of Roe: “that every woman
should be able to make
her own choices about her body and her health.” He went on to
reaffirm his “steadfast
commitment to protecting a woman’s access to safe, affordable
health care and her
constitutional right to privacy, including the right to
reproductive freedom.” He
ended with the reasoning (again without seeing how it
undermines his position on
abortion) behind his position: “Because this is a country
where everyone deserves
the same freedom and opportunities to fulfill their dreams.”
While
celebrating a ruling which
legalized abortion throughout pregnancy, President Obama was
unable to even put
the word “abortion” in his statement. That’s the tactic of
many modern abortion
advocates. Instead of advocating for legal abortion, they
claim they are advocating
for “reproductive freedom.” Instead of advocating for the use
of tax dollars to
pay for abortions, they claim they are advocating for “access
to health care.”
Since
President Obama clearly
doesn’t believe it is wrong to kill innocent unborn human
beings nor has he done
anything to uphold the dignity of those defenseless children,
one has to wonder
how he can say what he said at the National Prayer Breakfast.
It’s almost as
if he thinks human
beings are wonderfully made when they are born and human life
and dignity only emerge
after birth. It’s almost as if he thinks the 56 million unborn
American children
legally aborted since 1973 never existed.
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