Above Obama's Paygrade

Barack Obama has picked Tom Daschle to be the secretary of the health and human services, the department that deals most closely with abortion and human life issues. Tom Daschle is radically pro-abortion.

After three decades of intense public debate on the issue of abortion, Obama declared that any declaration of moral judgment of when life begins to be "above my paygrade."

So much for "healing" the moral divisions in our culture.

Obama the Moderate??? (Part 2)

In August, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) weighed in with a proposed regulation to extend and solidify existing legal conscience protections for healthcare providers who are opposed to abortion. On the surface, the HHS efforts would seem innocent enough, as it largely clarifies how existing conscience-protection laws will be implemented. But the abortion industry was very threatened by this proposed regulation. Their fear is that a clear statement on conscience would enable the majority of practitioners to divorce themselves entirely from the abortion culture. For this reason, abortion’s defenders came out swinging. In September, twenty-seven Democratic U.S. senators and one independent sent a letter to HHS secretary Mike Leavitt that claimed the regulation would damage “the healthcare needs of women.” (Incidentally, senators Barack Obama and Joe Biden were among the signatories.)

Obama the Moderate???

Though Obama promises to run the national administration from the middle, he has promised to pass the Freedom of Choice Act which would over turn all of the state's modest restrictions on abortion. It would also provide federal funds for abortion, and penalize hospitals that do not commit abotions.