We Won’t Let Granny Die?

When the President assured the crowd at a recent town hall meeting on health care that their grandmothers were safe under his proposed health care plan (whatever that is) and that rumors of rationing and D.E.A.T.H. (Department of Euthanasia And Triage of Humans) [see "Shut Up and Hand Me the Wrench!‚" The Future of Health Care Under Obama Universal Care for Health (O.U.C.H.)‚" July 16, 2009 CFP.) Committees were simply right wing extremist propaganda, my first thought was: really? Just how credible is Obama the Secular on the issue of life and where did this newfound compassion come from? Since a single payer plan is inevitable if Obama gets his way, since private insurers (villains, according to Obama and Pelosi) will be driven out of the industry to be replaced in time by government regulated fees, doctor salaries, and low premiums set by Congress; and given the fact that the government does not run many things well and cost overruns are inevitable, how can he, or we, be certain that the government will not be forced to ration health care? It is as certain as the sunrise. And when the time comes to make hard judgments about cutting federal costs, it is a certainty that the elderly and the dying will be screened by politically appointed bureaucrats who must, of necessity make hard decisions about the worth of a human life and the cost-benefit ratio involved in sustaining their lives.

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But more to the point: from where does this newfound compassion for life come? And how credible is Obama on the issue of life to begin with? Considering the fact that this president is the most pro-death president in history, we should take with a grain of salt his statement that Granny is safe. Frankly, given his past track record, I fear for your Granny and mine. Of course we know that Obama would not want his daughter to be "punished with a baby‚" [sic] if she became pregnant. And we know that in February of 2004, Michelle Obama authored a fund raising letter soliciting funds for Obama's senatorial campaign. Preaching to the radical, left-wing, pro-abortion, feminist choir, she railed against the federal partial birth abortion ban, and trumpeted the fact that her husband would never allow pro-life judges to interpret the law and would preserve the right of a woman and her doctor not just to perform an abortion, but to kill viable babies who were inches from life, by stabbing them in the head with scissors and sucking their brains out"euphemistically referred to as "partial birth abortion.‚" (Perhaps if commentators, politicians, and the rest of us referred to the procedure as "stabbing a nearly-born baby in the head and sucking his or her brains out‚" rather than "partial birth abortion,‚" people would better understand the hideous nature of this procedure.) But, back to the fund raising letter. Michelle Obama, when raising money for her husband, referred to "partial birth abortion‚" ("stabbing a nearly born baby in the head and sucking his or her brains out‚") as: "...a legitimate medical procedure.‚" [sic] The Obamas, when raising money for his senatorial campaign, elicited money from the radical left pro-baby- killing wing of the Democratic party, bragged that Obama would prevent the politicians and the courts from ever presuming to protect babies, and trumpeted the "legitimate medical procedure‚" [sic] of stabbing babies in the head and removing their brains"just inches and moments from birth. Things do not look so good for Granny, if Obama is willing to tolerate the killing of nearly born babies. But it gets worse. Forget about "punishing your girl by allowing her to have a baby,‚" or stabbing live babies moments from birth in the head with scissors and sucking their brains out. Obama does not even favor protecting innocent babies who actually are "lucky‚" enough to survive late term abortions. In testimony before the United States Senate just before the federal Born Alive Infant Protection Act was passed (98-0 with Hillary Clinton supporting the Act) the Senators heard of instances in which babies surviving late-term abortions were actually thrown into waste bins or allowed to die by indifferent doctors or mothers who found the babies inconvenient. This is not just an abortion, this is not just a partial birth abortion; this is nothing less than infanticide. However, when a similar measure was brought to committee in the Illinois Senate--a committee chaired by none other than then Illinois Senator Barack Obama--he let the measure die in committee. Like the babies who survived late-term abortions and then were allowed to die, the bill protecting born alive babies in Illinois was allowed to die by none other than now President Barack Obama. Put simply, whenever Barack Obama had the chance to vote on and promote a bill in the Illinois Senate which would have prohibited doctors from allowing born alive babies to die or be killed or be thrown into dumpsters, Obama"the family man with good ole fashion American values"did nothing. Worse yet, he prevented the bill from being passed and argued against it. He would, as it turns out, let born alive babies die rather than prevent their deaths because to do so might some day, restrict a woman's right to an abortion or result in the questioning of Roe v. Wade"God forbid. (See: "ObamAbortion, Abomination," CFP, 10/27/08) If Obama will not protect babies lucky enough to survive botched abortions, then his promise to protect Granny, his promise that there will be no rationing, and his assurance that elderly or dying Americans will not be screened by federal D.E.A.T.H. committees seems--like most of his promises--hollow indeed.