Abortion

Every day in the USA, 3,700 babies are aborted. That's 1.37 million per year. Worldwide, there are about 46 million a year.

About 2,500 of those performed in the USA are partial-birth abortions, which are surgical abortions wherein an intact fetus is removed from the uterus via the cervix. In February 2004, U.S. Senate candidate Barack Obama's wife, Michelle, sent a fund-raising letter with the "alarming news" that "right-wing politicians" had passed a law stopping doctors from performing the "legitimate medical procedure" of partial-birth abortion. Others have described partial-birth abortions as "stabbing half-born babies in the neck with scissors, suctioning out their brains and crushing their skulls."

Only 36 states have bans on late-term abortions. The definition of a late-term abortion is an abortion "which [is] performed during a later stage of pregnancy" when "the fetus is more developed and generally viable."

If this isn't troubling enough, when one of these millions of abortions is botched, and the baby is living outside the mother's womb, there are cases where the infant is denied medical treatment and is left to die. We live in a society that is willing to do this, but thinks it is torture to pour water over the head of a known terrorist to get information that may save the lives of thousands or millions of people. Which of these two actions is more cruel, unusual, or inhumane?

Barack Obama has stated "The first thing I’d do as president" would be to sign the Freedom of Choice Act, which would overturn every local, state, and federal abortion law passed in the past 35 years.

The US government gave Planned Parenthood $387 million last year. Planned Parenthood's revenue in 2007 was over $1 billion and its profit was $35 million.

When speaking at Notre Dame's commencement recently, President Obama said that he will "work to see that fewer women have abortions in the future." I suppose that will come to pass because of all the abortions, there will be fewer women in the future, and therefore, fewer women who will seek abortions.