Posted by
JTD on Thursday, October 09, 2008 7:14:58 PM
Of course Barack is a radical on most issues. But on one particular issue he is more than radical, he is a barbarian. That issue is abortion.
Why? Because of his support for partial birth abortion, and even worse, his belief that a baby that survives an abortion attempt must be deprived of medical care and left to die in ignominious solitude. PBA is bad enough. How can any person or society that claims a modicum of civilization countenance a procedure that pierces the skull of a perfectly formed, healthy, beautiful and viable infant
and sucks out its brains?
How can anyone -- especially that sophisticated, urbane, Haaaaaaavard trained, metrosexual named barack -- be so radically devoted to the concept of abortion that he would deny medical care to an infant that survives a botched abortion? This is savagery, pure and simple; and anyone that supports it, is himself a barbarian of the first order.
Before proceeding any further, let me define myself. I am agnostic, so I bring no religious argument to this debate. I am very conservative, usually vote Republican, but am decidedly moderate on the issue of abortion. I believe that it would be imprudent to outlaw abortion, but that it is necessary to strictly control it. I believe, for example, that no minor should have an abortion without the consent of her parents. I believe that partial birth abortion is both inhuman and inhumane. I believe that a fetus upon attaining viability is confered with its own Human rights.
Conceptually, abortion is nasty and ugly.....particularly nasty and ugly when routinely utilized as a woman's primary birth control device. And let's not pull any punches here, the farther along in development the fetus is, the nastier and uglier the procedure gets. Even if necessary to protect the life of the mother, it is ghastly business.
I do not, however, believe that Human life exists at the moment of conception. Is it life? Yes, of course it is! Is it Human. Well, It is certainly of Human origin! But, perhaps there's a better question to ask: Is the fetus at the point of conception a Human Being? No, it is not. And it is not, for the same reason that we allow doctors or family to "pull the plug" when a patient is brain dead: The absence of discernible, coherent brain activity.
Like the brain dead patient, the fetus is a living organism, but it is not what we recongnize as a Human Being. It is on the way to becoming a Human Being, God willing, but it is not yet there.
Ignoring -- only for sake of this argument -- the lack of a constitutional basis for Roe v. Wade, the original trimester formula for discerning the presence of life has a logical basis, although it must be acknowledged that subsequent court cases have essentially gutted Roe's trimester formulation. Nonetheless there is a strong rational behind the formula: In the first three months, the fetus is nascient life only, and the mother's rights must prevail. In the last three months, the fetus is -- especially given modern medical capacities -- capable of life outside the mother's womb and MUST be accorded its own rights vis-avis the mother.
And that leaves the middle trimester. Ay, there's the rub! Who's rights prevail here? The mother or the fetus? Obviously this is the most difficult of grey areas, especially in light of Justice Sandra Day O'Connor's observation that the trimester formula was on a collision course with itself, as advances in obstetric medicine inevitably pushed the point of viability ever closer to the moment of conception.
But for our purposes here, we need not address the issue of viability. Can any rational person doubt that a full term, viable infant is a Human Being, even if its head -- and only its head -- is still inside the mother's birth canal? Of course not, only a hopeless ideologue could so argue. Only an individual who has cast aside his own humanity could so argue. Only a barbarian!
That's bad enough, but consider the cruelty and savagery of the man who says we must not give medical care to a surviving infant, because to do so might hinder the cause of abortion itself. Where is that man's compassion? Where is his humanity? There is none, for that man is a barbarian.
And this brings us to the essence of Barack Hussein Obama.......a man so blindly devoted to his radical ideologies that he is willing, when necessary, to check his humanity at the door and to wreck unspeakable cruelty upon the innocent.
Beyond the well tailored suits, beyond the florid rhetoric, beyond the winning smile there lies a monster, a savage.......a barbarian!
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