...not the Born Alive thing again...
Barack Obama is the only elected official at the federal level to have ever voted in FAVOR of denying life-saving medical care for children who have been born.
My column this week touches on
exactly the kind of child his position likely did effect in numerous unknown instances.
Hence, I am even more compelled to emphasize this flaw in Obama's "character" when I read letters from the mailbag that go thusly:
Kevin,
I've been reading your columns on Townhall for a while now, and you're one of the few writers with whom I literally always agree. Thank you.
And thank you for this article in particular.
Over the past year, my wife endured the parade of ultrasounds and tests designed to determine whether our unborn daughter had anything "wrong" with her.
In the process of asking about the nature and reliability of these tests, we discovered that most of the tests had a relatively high potential for inaccuracy (by my own standards at least). We also learned that identifying ailments (e.g. Down's syndrome) was all the tests were good for; in other words, the defects could not be treated or reversed.
So, I asked the doctor, if the ailment can't be remedied why test for it? Well, your column answers that question quite adequately.
My stomach turned in disgust as I realized that so many Ob/Gyns are using the results of unreliable tests and ultrasounds to encourage women to abort their babies. My queasy feeling did not improve as I remembered that my wife's doctor is a Southern Baptist, yet he would perform an abortion simply to prevent the inconvenience of raising a child with Down's.
There would be no more testing of my wife's unborn child. We decided that in utero inspection of God's gift to us would be an act of selfish ingratitude.
Our daughter is 12 weeks old as of yesterday.
Reading your column brought a tear to my eye. How many poorly calibrated ultrasounds have resulted in the abortion of healthy infants?
This Obama fellow, and the abortion industry to which he panders, must be stopped. But there will always be men like him, for whom a cynical will to power negates any whiff of conscience he might otherwise have had.
Kevin, our society no longer has a moral foundation against which to judge these things. Without religion, all our ethical judgments are little more than moralistic pomp. It seems to me that without a spiritual revival our best moral efforts are little more than rudderless Platonic rubbish.
But even if we could pray our way into revival, how could we fight back the tide of secularism and effect a true Godly transformation of America?
Keep fighting the good fight.
Kind regards,
Dave, Texas