Obama Thinks Pope Benedict is a Fool

Obama to Pope Benedict: "I will try to reduce abortions in America"

How will Obama, the B.S. Artist, "Reduce Abortions"? His pro-contraceptive and pro-sterilization track record tells us how. Reducing abortions is good - if you can believe our B.S.-ing dictator. However, the end doesn't justify the means. Obama's "promise" is actually a finger in the eye of the natural law and therefore, Catholic Teaching that teaches in favor of natural human biology and against contraception and sterilization; something Pope Benedict tried to also make clear to Obama at their July 10 visit.

According to this Reuters report, Obama told Pope Benedict XVI that he wanted to reduce abortions in the U.S. He just won't bother reducing them overseas with his federal funding of them that he reinstated in January to celebrate the 36th Anniversary of Roe v. Wade. He won't bother doing it right by appointing a pro-life Supreme Court Justice. In fact, this outright lie to Pope Benedict should be viewed in context with what he said during his campaign when he said, in paraphrase, "One more Supreme Court justice can overturn Roe vs. Wade. This is what is at stake. When it comes to a woman's 'fundamental' right to choose, I will not yield and Planned Parenthood will not yield." And then when he said, "if one of my daughters gets pregnant, I don't want them 'punished' with a baby." Is this Obama's mathematics of 'reducing abortions'? The last time I checked you don't bring positive numbers down by increasing the positives. The report also stated:

"President Obama not long ago told the American people that he would support policies to reduce abortions, but today he is effectively guaranteeing more abortions by funding groups that promote abortion as a method of population control," said Douglas Johnson, legislative director of the National Right to Life Committee.

His vow to "try to reduce abortions in America" is a finger in the eye of Pope Benedict. Obama will reduce abortions only by the tired and failed method from yesteryear of proliferating condoms, the abortion pill, and promoting sterilizations. Obama, the 'self-acclaimed' progressive is stuck in the 1980's.

His track record is in clear opposition to the Church's position on contraception and sterilization. Obama's method of "reducing" abortions is clearly contrary to the document the Holy Father delivered to the President, "Dignitatis Personae" (On the Dignity of Persons) which is a 2008 instruction by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith that gives the Catholic teaching on the ethics of embryonic research and reiterates Church opposition to contraception and abortion, mentioning new methods of birth control such as female condoms and the morning-after pill. We can study Obama's record to apply an educated estimate of how he'll "reduce" abortions in America:

January 22 Buried in the House Stimulus Bill, in Section 5004, is the "State Eligibility Option for Family Planning." This would make national Medicaid a money machine to the tune of $87 billion for family planning clinics in the United States. (Family planning in the U.S., as well as in Canada and elsewhere, means: "Planning not to have families," i.e., promote contraception, sterilization and abortion.) The U.S. already spends more than $400 million on overseas "family planning" assistance each year.

January 23 Obama overturns, by executive order, the Mexico City Policy of previous presidents that forbade the funding of abortions and abortion groups outside U.S. boundaries. (No TV cameras or press were present for the signing on a late Friday afternoon when news services were shut down. Hundreds of millions of dollars will go to support abortions in poor countries, especially in Asia, Africa and South America.)

- Appended to the statement announcing the end of the Mexico City Policy, Obama declared: "In addition, I look forward to working with Congress to restore U.S. financial support for the UN Population Fund." (That funding was halted in 2002 when a State Department investigation showed the Fund supported China's coercive one-child-per- family policy through forced abortions and sterilizations.)

January 27 A Congressional committee debates the Prevention First Act (PFA), which, if passed, would hand over millions for "family planning" methods, attack freedom of conscience rights for health providers and financially pave the way for the proposed Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA), which would strip all states of the ability to restrict abortions and homosexual activism. The Prevention First Act was introduced by Senate majority leader Harry Reid (Mormon, pro-abortion) on January 6, 2009. The act claims to reduce unintended pregnancies and abortion and is based on the premise that contraception prevents abortion. (In reality, contraception is the gateway to abortion.)

January 29 The Senate, by a 59-39 vote, rejects national medical coverage in the SCHIP program for unborn children and their pregnant mothers. This, pro-life sources say, will lead to more abortions, supposedly against the president's intention of reducing abortions.

February 25 As feared by pro-life groups, the Omnibus Appropriations Bill cuts funding for abstinence education by $54 million, while giving more money to Planned Parenthood programs. This leaves only $95 million for national programs. This money disappears later on.

- Time magazine, in attacking opponents of the FOCA bill, is accused of many inaccuracies, non-sequiturs and misrepresentations. Time has described the bill as "mythical." Yet, Obama announced his intentions to sign such a bill in 2006, again in a July 2007 speech to Planned Parenthood and once more on January 22, 2008 on the Roe v. Wade anniversary.

March 6 Obama shuts out pro-life groups from attending today's White House health care summit, called to discuss how health care reform should be implemented. Pro-abortion groups like Planned Parenthood, however, are invited to attend. Planned Parenthood's president, Cecile Richards, called for including access to abortion in any health care reform plan.

March 9 Obama eliminates eight-year-old limits on federal money for the use of embryonic stem cells for research - which kills newly conceived embryos - by presidential decree, in a room packed with scientists. "As a person of faith, I believe we are called to care for each other and work to ease human suffering," the President said, (forgetting that human embryos are killed in the process).

Nowhere in the world has embryonic stem-cell research produced a single therapy or treatment. Meanwhile, adult stem-cell research has over 70 therapies to its credit so far. The President's Executive Order also removes the HHS Secretary's duty to pursue funding for adult stem-cell research.

- This ends ability of pro-abortionists, including President Obama, to say they are "pro-choice" because they no longer allow health officials a choice to oppose or disapprove.

- The HHS administration announces the intention to abolish the "final rule" (protection of conscience for health workers opposed to abortion, contraception, IVF, etc).

Obama's Steps for the First 100 Days projects the end of the Mexico City Policy, the Hyde Amendment, the Kemp-Kasten Amendment, the Weldon Amendment, restrictions on emergency contraception (Plan B), the termination of all abstinence-only programs and a reversal of the recent HHS regulation protecting pro-life physicians and institutions. By Day 50, many of these had been accomplished already.

March 20 Various Congressional Bills are gutting abstinence education while promoting "comprehensive" sex education heavy on contraception. The Administration is now giving financial aid to Marie Stopes International, a British abortion provider with branches throughout Africa.

April 3 The UN Commission on Population and Development celebrated the 15th anniversary of the Cairo Conference on Population. The European Union, the US Obama Administration and Canada, propose "fertility reduction"

April 9 The President signs executive order for embryonic stem-cell research under the slogan "science should triumph ideology." Let's remember that Obama muzzled the science of when life begins by refusing to acknowledge the scientific fact that life begins at conception. Was this Obama's version of 'science triumphing over ideology'?

April 23 Secretary of the State Hillary Clinton admits before the House Foreign Relations Committee that as far as the new government is concerned, the term "reproductive health" includes abortion. "The Obama government will promote abortions overseas." "We are now an Administration that will protect the rights of women," she also added: "The 20thCentury reproductive rights movement, really embodied in the life and leadership of Margaret Sanger, was one of the most transformational in the entire history of the human race." (Note: Margaret Sanger was a radical eugenicist and racist of the 1920's and the 1930's who lived and worked in New York City).

- The Administration's new International Ambassador, Melanne Verveer, White House Director for Foreign Women's issues, confirmed President Obama's commitment to population control as outlined, she claimed, at the UN Population Conference in Cairo 15 years ago.

(Adapted from LifeSiteNews)