LifeNews.com Pro-Life News Report 10/18/08 #4447
LifeNews.com Pro-Life News Report
Saturday, October 18, 2008
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Today's Headlines
• AP Poll Finds Just 44-42% Obama Lead, Others Show McCain Close
• Pro-Life Movie Star Eduardo Verastegui Backs McCain re Abortion
• Douglas Kmiec Exposed: Catholic Obama Backer is Pro-Abortion
• Catholic Lawyer Still Making Voters Think Obama Pro-Life on Abortion
• CBS News Provides Cover for Obama, No Exposure of Abortion View
• Pro-Life Republican Group Makes Endorsements for Senate, House
• United Nation's Panel May Reconsider Call for Human Cloning Ban
• Abortion Boat Takes Three Women From Spain Aboard
• Missouri Choose Life License Plate Gets Appeals Court Hearing
• Abortion Gets Debate as UN Opens General Assembly Session
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AP Poll Finds Just 44-42% Obama Lead, Others Show McCain Not Far Behind
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- A new poll conducted by the Associated Press and Yahoo finds pro-abortion candidate Barack Obama with just a 44-42 percent lead over John McCain, who opposes abortion. The poll includes an oversampling of Democratic voters, which some political observers say may not reflect November's turnout. The poll found 4 percent of voters support another candidate while 9 percent say they are still undecided about the presidential race. The AP survey found 86 percent of voters who named a candidate are certain about their vote while 14 percent say there is a chance they will change their mind. Obama and McCain received identical 52 percent favorable ratings and unfavorable ratings of about 42 percent. About 48 percent of Americans view pro-life running mate Sarah Palin favorably while 48 percent view pro-abortion running mate Joe Biden favorably. Recent media polls show the presidential contest outside the margin of error, but those polls, like the Associated Press survey, contain a significantly higher percentage of Democratic voters that skews the results. On the other hand, non-media, non-partisan polling firms show a much closer race. On Friday, the Rasmussen firm released the results of its most recent tracking poll showing Obama ahead by just four percent, 50-46. Full story at LifeNews.com
Pro-Life Movie Star Eduardo Verastegui Backs John McCain Over Abortion
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Eduardo Verastegui, the Hispanic heartthrob and star of the movie Bella, that resonated with millions of pro-life Americans last year, has endorsed John McCain. Verastegui says McCain is head and shoulders better on abortion issues than Barack Obama. "John McCain is the only candidate for president that shares my values of life," Verastegui said in a statement LifeNews.com received. "He truly recognizes that we are all God's children." "John McCain is someone we can trust to do what is right and follow through on what he says -- as opposed to Barack Obama, who does not share our traditional values of defending innocent life," the Hispanic actor and singer added. Verastegui pointed to McCain's prisoner of war experience and love of family as compatible with pro-life and Latino values. "During his personal experience as a POW in Vietnam, McCain renewed and strengthened his faith," he said. "His resolve serves as a reminder to us all that we must vote our values and our conscience, and not vote simply by party." Verastegui, who recently released a video talking about the problems of Obama's extreme pro-abortion position, says Obama "lacks experience and judgment and would stand for values that are out of step with the Hispanic community and this country." Full story at LifeNews.com.
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Douglas Kmiec Exposed: Catholic Obama Backer Takes Pro-Abortion Position
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Pepperdine University law professor Douglas Kmiec has been heralded as a leading pro-life Catholic scholar who happens to support Barack Obama. Kmiec has been making a supposedly pro-life case for Obama but he appeared to expose himself as an abortion advocate in a new editorial. Writing in the Los Angeles Times, Kmiec appears to take a "personally opposed but" position that actually allows for legal abortions despite a claim to support abortion. Kmiec employs the same kind of "abortion is between a woman, her doctor and God" argument Obama himself utilized in the Wednesday night presidential debate to defend his own view supporting abortion for any reason throughout pregnancy. "Sometimes the law must simply leave space for the exercise of individual judgment, because our religious or scientific differences of opinion are for the moment too profound to be bridged collectively," Kmiec writes. Kmiec's stunning admission wasn't lost on National Review writer Ramesh Ponnuru. Ponnuru says the Kmiec piece is "pretty clearly an endorsement of the view that given the existence of moral conflict over abortion, the compromise position we should adopt is to be pro-choice." He adds: 'The previous argument has been that someone who favors legal protection for the unborn should be willing to support Obama even though he is pro-choice. Now we're being told that we should support Obama by jettisoning our views about the appropriate legal status of abortion." Full story at LifeNews.comCatholic Lawyer Still Deceiving Voters to Think Obama is Pro-Life on Abortion
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Catholic attorney Douglas Kmiec is continuing his crusade to mislead voters into thinking Barack Obama is somehow pro-life on abortion. Kmiec has turned a few rare Obama comments against abortion into a pro-life philosophy for Obama despite the fact that Obama's position is well outside the mainstream. Obama believes all abortions should be legal throughout pregnancy for any reason -- a position polls show fewer than 8 percent of Americans supporting. In a Friday editorial appearing in the Los Angeles Times, Kmiec argues Obama is against abortion because he said during the debate that it is "always a tragic situation." W. James Antle, the associated editor of the American Spectator, disagrees. "Doug Kmiec is at it again, trying to make the pro-life case for Barack Obama. To make this argument, he has to stack the deck heavily in Obama's favor," he says. "There are plenty of well meaning people who hold the position that abortion is regrettable but should be permissible, a necessary evil. But that position is not pro-life." Full story at LifeNews.com
CBS News Provides Cover for Obama, No Exposure of Pro-Abortion Views
by Brent Bozell
On Sunday, October 12, CBS wrapped up its “Evening News” with the apparently charming scoop that Sister Cecilia Gaudette, a 106-year-old Catholic nun living in Rome, would cast her first presidential ballot since 1952...for Barack Obama. That’s one more evening-news story than CBS has devoted to Obama’s radical legislative record on abortion. Try this on for size: ABC, CBS, and NBC together have unloaded more than a thousand stories on Obama’s presidential campaign, and we’re still waiting for the first broadcast network TV story devoted to examining Obama’s abortion record. CBS’s man in Rome, Allen Pizzey, packaged his story without the slightest interest into inquiring as to why this Catholic nun would vote for a candidate who is clearly the nation’s fervent advocate of abortion. Instead, Pizzey chose to...ooze. “She has a simple, old-fashioned standard for politicians,” Pizzey proclaimed, before giving the good nun the opportunity for her on-air national endorsement of Barack Obama: “A good straight man; good private life, honest and politically able to govern, of course.” Wait a minute. Isn’t this a classic Catholic scandal story, a nun publicly defying church teaching? This kind of story cheering a “dissident” Catholic as “old-fashioned” is a natural for Pizzey, a reporter who kicked the casket of Pope John Paul the Great in 2005, saying his rigid opposition to abortion was a “flaw” of his life. Full story at LifeNews.com
Pro-Life Republican Group Makes Endorsements for Key Senate, House Races
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- A pro-life group that works within the Republican Party to keep it pro-life has issued a list of endorsements for pro-life candidates in some key Senate and House races across the country. The Republican National Coalition for Life says the list includes some of the strongest pro-life candidates in the nation. "The criteria upon which we established the questions are based on the pro-life principles stated in Republican National Platforms since 1984," the group told LifeNews.com in a statement. Those principles include strong opposition to abortion, support for a Human Life Amendment to the Constitution, recognition of the scientific fact that human life begins at conception, and opposition to assisted suicide and euthanasia. While not an exhaustive list of pro-life candidates for Congress, the list includes some of the candidates in top races across the country. Colorado Senate candidate Bob Schaffer and New Mexico Senate candidate Steve Pearce are the two main Senate candidates on the list. Endorsed candidates from the House of Representatives facing tough races include Marilyn Musgrave and Doug Lamborn in Colorado, Andy Harris in Maryland, and Jean Schmidt in Ohio. Full story at LifeNews.com
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United Nation's Ethics Panel May Reconsider Call for Global Human Cloning Ban
New York, NY (LifeNews.com) -- A United Nation's bioethics panel may examine an effort to overturn the call for a global human cloning ban the United Nations issued in March 2005. After four years of debate on the issue of human cloning, the UN put its stamp of approval on a statement calling for countries to ban the practice. In 2005 the General Assembly voted 84-37, with 37 nations abstaining and 36 absent, for the statement asking nations to prohibit the practice. Now, the International Bioethics Committee of UNESCO is expected to debate the issue on October 28 because some scientists say circumstances have changed and human cloning is necessary for research. “Recent technological developments and new prospects for the use of stem cells in the therapy of human diseases have once again raised the issue of adequacy of international regulations governing this research,” an IBC working group set up at the request of UNESCO Director-General Koïchiro Matsuura said in a report in September. The report complained that the 2005 call was to ban both reproductive and research cloning and in noted some nations voted no or didn't vote at all because they wanted a ban on reproductive cloning but not the research variety. Full story at LifeNews.com
Abortion Boat Takes Three Women From Spain Aboard, Gives Dangerous Drugs
Valencia, Spain (LifeNews.com) -- The abortion boat operated by the pro-abortion group Women on Waves took three women from Spain on board on Friday and gave them the dangerous RU 486 abortion drug that has killed more than a dozen women worldwide and injured more than 1,200 in the U.S. alone. About 100 pro-life advocates form the group Provida were on hand to protest the ship's arrival. Actress Pilar Bardem, mother of Hollywood star Javier Bardem, gave a speech to a small crowd of abortion activists who greeted the boat. In an email to LifeNews.com the operators of the abortion ship, which take women to international waters to help them violate the local abortion laws of their home nation, bragged that pro-life groups failed to prevent the ship from docking. "The Catholic anti-abortion rights groups failed to fulfill their promise to prevent the ship from entering the harbor," WOW said. "More than 200 people attended the manifestation to celebrate the arrival of the ship even though police imposed a last minute ban on the artistic and musical parts of the manifestation." The email, received late Thursday indicated that, "Tomorrow, Friday, the ship will sail to international waters to give free and legal abortion services to women with unwanted pregnancies." That's exactly what the abortion boat did today. Full story at LifeNews.com
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Missouri Choose Life License Plate Gets Federal Appeals Court Hearing
Jefferson City, MO (LifeNews.com) -- A federal appeals court held a hearing on Thursday on the constitutionality of Choose Life license plates in Missouri. The plates allow state motorists to have a pro-life message on their car that supports adoption and part of the proceeds from the specialty plate help pregnant women in crisis. Alliance Defense Fund senior legal counsel Joel Oster appeared before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit to argue for the plates. “Pro-life organizations shouldn't be discriminated against for their beliefs,” said Oster. “Rejecting Choose Life’s participation in the specialty license plate program just because government officials in high places object to the message is simply unconstitutional.” In June 2006, ADF attorneys filed suit against Missouri Department of Revenue officials after two Missouri senators–both members of a committee responsible for reviewing the specialty plate applications–objected to the viewpoint of the message on a license plate proposed by Choose Life of Missouri. Earlier this year, a federal court ruled in favor of Choose Life, determining that the state’s statute outlining the approval process for specialty plates was unconstitutional. The state appealed the ruling to the 8th Circuit, which refused to stay the district court’s decision while the case is on appeal. Full story at LifeNews.com
Abortion Gets Debate as United Nations Opens General Assembly Session
New York, NY (LifeNews.com/CFAM) -- At the United Nations (UN) this week the nations of Malta and Fiji issued forceful interventions in defense of the unborn and the traditional family, respectively, as the Third Committee of the General Assembly (GA) began to address agenda items for the current session. The permanent representative of Malta, Ambassador Saviour F. Borg, stated that abortion remains illegal in his country, and “Malta firmly continues to maintain that any position taken or recommendations made regarding women empowerment and gender equality should not in any way create an obligation on any party to consider abortion as a legitimate form of reproductive health rights.” The ambassador implicitly rebutted the claim, made by abortion rights activists and members of certain UN treaty bodies, that UN documents and treaties – specifically, the Convention of on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), which Malta acceded to in 1991 – require member states to allow abortion. He pointed out that terms like “reproductive rights” and “control of fertility” have consistently been interpreted by Malta not to include abortion, a position the Ambassador reiterated. Full story at LifeNews.com
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