Don't Be Fooled About Health Care and Abortion

John Armstrong:

What I know for certain is that every piece of health care legislation that has been put forward, at least to this point, is extremely favorable to abortion and provides taxpayer support for abortions that presently are not supported by federal dollars. The bills set forward by the Democrats and President Obama are consistent on this point. These advocates are not telling us the truth about the abortion issue in this debate. I am amazed at how many friends of mine who assure me that they are strongly pro-life also assure me that Obama's health care plan has nothing at all to do with abortion. I do not like the way the right has hurled terrible epithets at the President but in this instance he is not telling us the whole truth about abortion. He has to know it. What he is doing is being very consistent with his stance on abortion followed over the course of his entire career in politics. This president is no friend to the cause of saving the lives of the unborn. To argue that he is seems to distort his words and their meaning beyond the breaking point.

A Senate committee voted yesterday, along strict party lines, to not restrict abortions under the Baucus health care proposal. Baucus himself says that his proposal does not support abortion. Senator Baucus is either naive, not telling the truth or not very smart. The vote yesterday, in Senate committee, proves my point. See for yourself. So long as the Democrats promote government funded abortions I simply cannot, in Christian conscience, support the Democrats. This does not mean that I am a Republican, since I have major problems with the leadership of this party as well. It does mean that based on conscience the issue of the life of the unborn, the weakest among us, is such a bedrock moral issue that I will oppose any effort to increase the likelihood of more abortions, especially when my taxes are helping pay for them. I cannot stand before God in the final day and tell Christ that my faith was so private and personal that I would not speak up for the unborn who were being slaughtered on a daily basis in this nation that is supposedly rooted in natural law.