CBS News.com:
President Obama told Pope Benedict XVI at a Vatican meeting that he would work to limit how many abortions take place each year in the United States, according to a Vatican spokesman.
"The pontiff told me that President Obama affirmed his personal commitment to try to reduce the number of abortions in the United States," spokesman Federico Lombardi said, according to Agence France-Presse.
Jill Stanek:
Eric Cantor comments:"Need" is not quantifiable, "number" is. In fact, Obama's commitment to the Pope directly contradicts a statement in May by Melody Barnes, his White House Director of Domestic Policy Council:
"It is not our goal to reduce the number of abortions.".... The goal, she insisted, is to "reduce the need for abortions."
On Friday, President Obama repeated his pledge to try to reduce the numbers of abortions in America, this time to the pope. I hope this time, the president is willing to follow his pledge with direct action. If he is serious about reducing the number of abortions in our country, President Obama should not force taxpayers and private insurance companies to fund them. Abortion groups themselves have made clear that more funding leads to more abortions. I hope that his statement to the pope is evidence that President Obama is willing to join Republicans and Democrats who have expressed their firm commitment to exclude abortion from any health-care plan that moves forward.Is is just me or has Obama made many statements in the last few months that would probably tend to make the pro-abortion choice people very furious? I fear this is all just talk. Words mean very little. Legislation does the talking .
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Words are not "meaningless" at all. They have great power. Obama's words, without any intention of action, convinced hundreds of thousands of Christians to vote for him, and in the process, ensure that this practice continues.
All Obama had to do was go "talk" to the Christian groups and use words that they wanted to hear. Then, those christians lost all ability to reason, and fell all over themselves to vote for him. Then, once he no longer needed those votes, he could go right back to a hard left position of protecting abortion at all costs. They were used.
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