Obama Lied Fewer Died

I attended this event last evening. My comments at the end.

Chicago, Illinois -- Americans United for Life (AUL) last night presented the Henry J. Hyde Defender of Life Award to New Yorkers for Parental Rights (NYFPR).  Jessica Shanahan, President of NYFPR, was on hand to accept the award.

AUL President Dr. Charmaine Yoest said, "The work of New Yorkers for Parental Rights is both an inspiration and a guide to all who work to protect women and the unborn."

Upon accepting the award, Ms. Shanahan said, "We did not relish this fight, but I felt a responsibility to do something.  Unless more pro-life legislation is enacted and pro-abortion legislation is defeated, we will not continue to see a reduction in abortion in our country."

New Yorkers for Parental Rights was formed to combat the Reproductive Health and Privacy Protection Act (RHAPP) in the New York state legislature.  The Act would have elevated abortion to a "fundamental right"-enshrining Roe v. Wade into New York law, eliminating all current regulation of abortion, and preventing future attempts to introduce common-sense regulations.

Under the direction of Ms. Shanahan, NYFPR saw the Reproductive Health and Privacy Protection Act go down in defeat.

The commonsense regulations in view were, for example, a requirement that at least one parent of, say, a 12-year-old girl who is going to have an abortion receive notification.

Speakingn of which (parental notification), Americans United for Life CEO and president, Charmaine Yoest, related how Senator Barack Obama told the audience (she was there) at Rick Warren's Saddleback Church that he wanted to reduce the number of abortions and that under President Bush the number of abortions has not gone down. Yoest noted that abortion rates, in fact, have been steadily falling for a number of years and that fact is common knowledge. Why, she said she wondered at the time, would Obama blatantly lie about this?

The only reason she could come up with sounds plausible enough: Obama opposes parental notification laws, and those are the most likely explanation for much of the decrease in the number of abortions. Yoest said that when the law required the notification of one parent, the rate decreased 13 percent. When the law required the consent of one parent, the rate decreased 19 percent. And when the law required the notification of both parents, the rate decreased 31 percent.

Regardless of the explanation, my United States Senator lied about this. It is my fear now that it will be Obama lies, more will die. He couldn't even vote with Hillary Clinton to guarantee medical care to an infant to who survives an abortion (Born Alive Infant Protection Act). He'd rather leave the infant to die. That's infanticide. But he won't admit that.