Commander in Mischief

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Commander in Mischief

President Obama may have given himself a "good solid B-plus" on his first year, but you can bet that Planned Parenthood is giving him much higher marks–especially after its Secret Santa gifted millions more in taxpayer-funded abortion. When the President inked his name on the $447 billion Omnibus bill yesterday, he was effectively signing the check for tens of thousands of D.C. abortions. Maybe that explains why ABC News is reporting that the President "seemed a little embarrassed about the whole deal, refusing to sign the bill in public or even to release a photograph."

Despite his call to "reduce abortions," this White House is freeing up more taxpayer dollars for the slaughter of innocent unborn children than any President in U.S. history. Initiatives like the "National Task Force to Reduce Abortions" and the promise that "No federal dollars will be used to fund abortions" appear to be nothing more than a facade. It masks an administration that has done nothing to reduce abortion–but everything in its power to expand it. Remember, barely 24 hours into his first term, this President immediately set to work undoing years of pro-life policy. Among President Obama’s first acts was lifting a ban on taxpayer-funded abortion–overturning the Mexico City policy just one day after the 35th March for Life. Today, he’s carrying on that tradition in his own backyard, forcing taxpayers to finance the procedure in a city with the highest abortion rate in the country (2005). The same will be done for the rest of the nation if the President succeeds in passing his so-called healthcare reform bill presently in the Senate. The same man who asked, "How can we reduce the number of abortions?" refuses to accept the easy answer: stop paying for them!

Mighty Casey Strikes Out

While Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) "thanked God" for taxpayer-funded abortion in the Senate bill, Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Nebr.) is doing everything in his power to stop it. The Democrats’ biggest obstacle to passing H.R. 3590 reiterated his position yesterday after rumors that Sen. Bob Casey (D-Pa.) was drafting an abortion "compromise." According to Congressional Quarterly, the Nebraska pro-lifer told reporters that his party can’t count on his support unless the ban on taxpayer-funded abortion is tightened. "[T]hey just wouldn’t have my vote."

Nelson has apparently rejected the language that Sen. Bob Casey crafted, which falls far short of Rep. Bart Stupak’s (D-Mich.) popular amendment in the House. Instead of an outright ban, the Casey plan would shuffle money around-but still pay for the procedure out of a taxpayer pool. The House floated that idea several times. It was–and still is–completely unacceptable. Join us in thanking Sen. Nelson for standing his ground in this incredible health care pressure cooker. Regardless of what state you live in, call his office at 202-224-6551 and applaud him for representing Americans everywhere by refusing to give an inch on the culture of life.

Should Congress Really Be the One Lecturing on Personal Responsibility?

Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.), who is currently having personal responsibility problems of his own, added Section 2953 to the Senate legislation to authorize up to $400 million in grants on what he calls "Personal Responsibility Education for Adulthood Programs." As Steven Mosher, President of Population Research Institute, tells us the section "will supposedly teach kids ‘healthy life skills,’ including things like ‘goal-setting, decision making, negotiation, communication and interpersonal skills, and stress management.’" However, Mosher also points out that while the section does restore funding to abstinence programs, it also puts a heavy emphasis on "increasing condom or contraceptive use for sexually active yo uth." Translation: Congress wants to teach kids about sex-early, graphically, and often. A majority of your tax dollars would go to groups like Planned Parenthood, who tend to profit the more kids have sex. Maybe Congress should take care of its own affairs and leave the parenting to parents.

Something’s Rotten in the State of Denmark

When Speaker Nancy Pelosi touches down in Copenhagen for her grand appearance at the climate summit, she should know that reducing emissions isn’t the biggest thing on the agenda. Reducing the number of children, however, is. For years, the green team has used photos of cuddly polar bears and harp seals to cover up their real agenda of radical environmentalism: population control. This week, that message is front and center at the Denmark summit, as "climate cultists" try to force a global limit on procreation. Don’t believe me? Check out these posts by the Cornwall Alliance’s Cal Beisner, who is blogging live from the conference. Human life is being openly devalued to protect the ecosystem.

In our book, Personal Faith, Public Policy, Bishop Harry Jackson and I devoted an entire chapter to the importance of conservation as a core social value. We talk about how the world is on the verge of reaping the long-term consequences of this mentality that children are a drain on our resources rather than a reward from the Lord. Just look at Scripture. Nowhere in it does God’s command to "be fruitful and multiply" have an expiration date. Glenn Beck talked about this in a column on Monday. "The inconvenient truth overhanging the U.N.’s Copenhagen conference is not that the climate is warming or cooling, but that humans are overpopulating the world. As he pointed out, "…[W]here are the women screaming at the top of their lungs about reproductive rights? Do those rights only extend to eliminating children through abortion or would you like to hang on to your right to have children as well?"