Face It, Pro-Lifers: Obama Is Just Not That Into You

The recent battles on Capitol Hill over both Sonia Sotomayor and health care convinced me that pro-life Americans should take a cue from a popular chick flick.

Chick flicks, for those unfamiliar, are a genre of movie escapism written and marketed to women and a guilty pleasure for many otherwise thoughtful types. A hit movie newly out on DVD recently proclaims a shocking truth to women who make excuses for the bad behavior of men with whom they date. That fact is: if he lies, cheats, and treats you disrespectfully, he’s just not that into you.

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The movie evokes cringes as one recognizes realistic scenes of bright women and men making humiliating mistakes and errors in judgment. Similarly, in 2008 many pro-life Americans made a horrific error in judgment. Exit polling from the presidential election sponsored by Beliefnet.com showed that 20 percent of those voting for Obama defined themselves as “pro-life.” According to Christianity Today, 25 percent of self-identified evangelical or born-again Christians voted for President Obama.

Why? Most of these same folks turned out in both 2000 and 2004 for George W. Bush. The reasons for this change of heart are complicated, as in any relationship breakup. They may have been reacting to the war, or overspending by Republicans, or any number of scandals, or maybe the spark was gone. Or maybe they were seduced!

Its okay, admit it. He’s cute, he’s smart, he’s likable and he’s charismatic. He promised change and faithful attention to some of the issues men and women of faith care about, such as poverty. One Christian conservative professor even wrote a book proclaiming that truly living like Jesus includes a vote for Obama. Good to know.

However, pro-lifers have been wronged. This lover who showed so much original ardor for you lied, and it started on the honeymoon. On January 23, 2009, one day after the 36th March for Life and on the president’s third day in office, he issued an executive order reversing U.S. policy that prohibited the use of U.S. funds to promote or pay for abortions abroad.

In March, he restored funding to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) that had been frozen due to their support of organizations that promote and even coerce poor women in other countries to have abortions. He opened the door for the federal funding of research that requires the destruction of human embryos and canceled the Bush “conscience clause” regulation that protected health care workers from being penalized for refusing to participate in providing abortions.

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The president has meticulously chosen advisors and top administration officials who have outstanding pro-choice credentials, including the secretary of Health and Human Services, Kathleen Sebelius, who is in charge of the nation’s health care system. Make no mistake — in Washington, people are policy.

Then of course there is his latest appointment to the Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor, who has already said in her Senate confirmation hearing that Roe v. Wade is settled law and that there is a constitutional right to privacy. Americans United for Life’s research of her record warns that she is far more radical then even former Justice Souter.

There are many other “indiscretions,” but let’s cut to the mack daddy of all slights: health care reform. The Obama administration is pushing relentlessly and recklessly for government run health care that would force almost all health care plans to include unlimited number of abortions for any reason and would make Americans complicit in these abortions due to the pooling of premiums. The current legislation on the table, the House “tri-committee” bill and the Senate bill authored by Ted Kennedy, amounts to the largest expansion of abortion in U.S. history. How could he? He said he loved me?

My fellow pro-lifers, grab a tissue and listen up. The truth is, he’s not scared to get into a relationship, he hasn’t lost your number, and he is not simply busy. Noooo! He is in bed with someone else. That’s right! President Obama loves the abortion lobby. He takes their money and their calls but more importantly he does their bidding. So wake up and smell the popcorn.

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Apparently President Obama doesn’t think abortion “is above his pay grade.” He is 100 percent dedicated to the idea that babies in the womb are not life and deserve no protection. Don’t get mad; get even.

Get involved in backing truly pro-life candidates and let Congress know what you think. Finally in 2012 break up with Obama. It hurts, but he’s just not that into you!

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