More of the Same
So Obama gave a speech on Saturday in Pennsylvania in which this comment was made:
It was in response to a woman asking him to stop abortions. I'm not shocked or even all that offended by his remark. I'm more offended by his bad grammer. I got two daughters? Ugh, my throat hurts even reading that.
These views shouldn't be a surprise to anyone. This same politican has voted present or against lots of legislation dealing with abortion, with the blessings of Planned Parenthood. He believes (at least as far as taking to the same group is concerned) Kindergarteners should recieve sex-education when appropriate, and now, apparently, that unplanned pregnancy's are punishment.
But listen, he didn't mean it like that. What he meant was, "my daughter shouldn't have to suffer life long consequences for having unprotected sex."
That's what he meant. Now, I'd like to see his opinion when said daughter actually is 16 and is having sex. We'll see what he thinks then when it's his grandchild being carried.
This isn't to say that he's not all for abortion. He is. He won't bow to the pro-life lobby, he says. Well good on you.
But you will bow to the public, and the public is increasingly tired and sick of abortions. Increasingly public opinion shows that abortions should be a last, last, last resort. And should not be used as birth control. I believe that many on his side of the fence would even agree.
I've been amazed at the movies that have done well this past year or so dealing with this issue. Juno, 16 year old girl gets pregnant, goes to the abortion clinic, and runs out of the offices as if flames were attacking her ankles. She still does not want to raise the child, but somewhere she realized that the child needed to live. She finds an adoptive family, and a woman who really wanted the child, takes him to raise him. And in the end of the film, Juno says, "I realized he was her baby all along."
Knocked Up was another one. Though I didn't see it. A pregnancy resulting from a onenight stand. Now granted, it would have been a much shorter movie if Katherine Heigl had aborted the baby in the first month. But it's still another example.
Waitress with Keri Russell. A young wife with an abusive husband gets pregnant and feels the baby is now another shackle keeping her in her bad marriage. But, "she respects the baby's right to thrive." And she keeps her. In the end, her daughter is the love of her life and part of the fresh start she needed.
My thought is, if even Hollywood is sick of the young girl's going to the abortion clinics, than I'd wager a guess that most of America is too.
Even Horton Hears a Who, a movie the pro-life groups have latched on too, says some things that I'm shocked to see come out of the same Hollywood that reduced Superman to, "Truth, Justice, and all that other stuff."
"Even though you can't hear or see them at all. A person is a person, that is my code."
"A person's a person, no matter how small."
Throughout the movie, the antagonist (the kangaroo) goes on and on about how if you can't see it, or touch it, than it isn't there. But in the end ... well it is there.
I'm not advocating that the pro-life folks use the movie as fodder as they have been. I think Dr. Suess was referring to children when he said "no matter how small," but hey, maybe I'm wrong.
Either way, I think it's just interesting that all this is coming out of Hollywood. And I think Senator Obama will learn quickly that he isn't always talking to his fans, and that his opponents will use these things he says, no matter if that's what he meant or not, against him. And it will not play well in Dixie.
“Look, I got two daughters — 9 years old and 6 years old,” he said. “I am going to teach them first about values and morals, but if they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby. I don’t want them punished with an STD at age 16, so it doesn’t make sense to not give them information.”
It was in response to a woman asking him to stop abortions. I'm not shocked or even all that offended by his remark. I'm more offended by his bad grammer. I got two daughters? Ugh, my throat hurts even reading that.
These views shouldn't be a surprise to anyone. This same politican has voted present or against lots of legislation dealing with abortion, with the blessings of Planned Parenthood. He believes (at least as far as taking to the same group is concerned) Kindergarteners should recieve sex-education when appropriate, and now, apparently, that unplanned pregnancy's are punishment.
But listen, he didn't mean it like that. What he meant was, "my daughter shouldn't have to suffer life long consequences for having unprotected sex."
That's what he meant. Now, I'd like to see his opinion when said daughter actually is 16 and is having sex. We'll see what he thinks then when it's his grandchild being carried.
This isn't to say that he's not all for abortion. He is. He won't bow to the pro-life lobby, he says. Well good on you.
But you will bow to the public, and the public is increasingly tired and sick of abortions. Increasingly public opinion shows that abortions should be a last, last, last resort. And should not be used as birth control. I believe that many on his side of the fence would even agree.
I've been amazed at the movies that have done well this past year or so dealing with this issue. Juno, 16 year old girl gets pregnant, goes to the abortion clinic, and runs out of the offices as if flames were attacking her ankles. She still does not want to raise the child, but somewhere she realized that the child needed to live. She finds an adoptive family, and a woman who really wanted the child, takes him to raise him. And in the end of the film, Juno says, "I realized he was her baby all along."
Knocked Up was another one. Though I didn't see it. A pregnancy resulting from a onenight stand. Now granted, it would have been a much shorter movie if Katherine Heigl had aborted the baby in the first month. But it's still another example.
Waitress with Keri Russell. A young wife with an abusive husband gets pregnant and feels the baby is now another shackle keeping her in her bad marriage. But, "she respects the baby's right to thrive." And she keeps her. In the end, her daughter is the love of her life and part of the fresh start she needed.
My thought is, if even Hollywood is sick of the young girl's going to the abortion clinics, than I'd wager a guess that most of America is too.
Even Horton Hears a Who, a movie the pro-life groups have latched on too, says some things that I'm shocked to see come out of the same Hollywood that reduced Superman to, "Truth, Justice, and all that other stuff."
"Even though you can't hear or see them at all. A person is a person, that is my code."
"A person's a person, no matter how small."
Throughout the movie, the antagonist (the kangaroo) goes on and on about how if you can't see it, or touch it, than it isn't there. But in the end ... well it is there.
I'm not advocating that the pro-life folks use the movie as fodder as they have been. I think Dr. Suess was referring to children when he said "no matter how small," but hey, maybe I'm wrong.
Either way, I think it's just interesting that all this is coming out of Hollywood. And I think Senator Obama will learn quickly that he isn't always talking to his fans, and that his opponents will use these things he says, no matter if that's what he meant or not, against him. And it will not play well in Dixie.
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