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President Obama's Covert Zeal for Abortion

Original2 Wrote: Jul 22, 2012 12:26 PM

on a hot stove could reasonable expect that the child would be removed. A pregnant woman who merely STATED she firmly intended to lay her new born on a hot stove would probably find the child taken away immediately after birth. Apparently, you feel that babies should routinely be sentenced to death so that moms need not experience any distress or discomfort or dislocations in their lives. Babies would probably dispute that, if they could talk.

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President Obama's Covert Zeal for Abortion

Abraham Lincoln faced a similar problem in 1854 when he spoke of the “covert zeal” of President Franklin Pierce and Sen. Steven A. Douglas for the spread of slavery. These leading Democrats never said they were in favor of slavery. They simply viewed the right of whites to choose slavery for blacks as a “sacred principle of self government.”Lincoln abhorred this subterfuge.

President Obama doesn't talk about abortion much. He famously tried to avoid the question in 2008 when Pastor Rick Warren asked him what rights, if any, unborn children have. "The answer to that question is above my...

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