Obama Woos Pro-Lifers

This is a no-brainer. If you're looking for a pro-life candidate, don't look at Barack Obama.

He's reaching out to anti-abortion voters by embracing motherhood, as if that's enough to erase his radical positions on abortion.

I think Obama and the Dems are making this appeal because conservatives have been hitting him hard for his extremist views regarding abortion and his support for what amounts to infanticide.

Obama doesn't want the unborn to get in his way to the White House.

Aug. 14 (Bloomberg) -- Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and his supporters are working to win over voters who want to ban or reduce abortions with a call for measures to help women keep their babies.

The party's platform supports the 1973 Roe v. Wade Supreme Court ruling that made abortion legal and adds a twist, saying the party ``strongly'' backs a woman's decision to carry a pregnancy to term. The compromise language is the result of behind-the-scenes negotiations with abortion-rights groups and religious leaders on both sides of the issue.

The idea is to frame abortion as less of an either-or issue by discussing both the need to keep abortion legal and the desire to provide programs for expectant and new mothers. It may help Democrats woo evangelical Christians, a core Republican constituency that backed President George W. Bush by a margin of 77 percent in 2004.

``Voters that this will win over are those that are looking for an excuse to vote for Obama,'' said Joel Hunter, a Florida pastor who helped with the language and said he is a ``pro-life'' Republican. ``They just needed one signal that, if I vote for him, more babies can be saved than if we keep wrangling over whether Roe v. Wade is going to be overturned.''

No way.

Do the Dems really think that a sentence in the platform will be enough to woo pro-life voters?

That's nuts.

I don't believe the PASTOR quoted in this article, the supposed pro-life Republican, Joel Hunter.

"They just needed one signal that, if I vote for him, more babies can be saved than if we keep wrangling over whether Roe v. Wade is going to be overturned."

No way.

Hunter, 60, is undecided about his vote, though he said the language in the platform "is huge for me."

The language in the platform means nothing to me. Absolutely nothing.

...Religious leaders who consulted on the platform said they expect Republicans to use abortion as a ``wedge issue'' in the way they used gay marriage to turn out evangelical voters in 2004. That's why finding a middle ground was so important, said Reverend Tony Campolo, a platform committee member.

There is no middle ground if you believe that life begins at conception.

How can there be middle ground with pro-lifers and people refusing to give an inch when it comes to abortion on demand at any point in a pregnancy?

Impossible.

If promoting the culture of life is important to you, it would be a huge mistake to vote for Obama.