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Obama's "punished with a baby" comment sparks protests
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.- Christian leaders in the U.S. are demanding that Sen. Barack Obama apologize for comments he made referring to babies as a “punishment”. While addressing a campaign rally in Pennsylvania last weekend, Sen. Obama said, "When it comes specifically to HIV/AIDS, the most important prevention is education, which should include -- which should include abstinence education and teaching the children -- teaching children, you know, that sex is not something casual," he said. "But it should also include -- it should also include other, you know, information about contraception because, look, I've got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old," he added. "I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby," Obama said. The Christian Defense Coalition responded to Obama by saying that his comment is “not only a slap in the face to every child born to a young mother, but it diminishes the great joy that children bring to their families regardless of the circumstances in which they were born.” Rev. Patrick J. Mahoney, Director of the Christian Defense Coalition, also commented on Obama’s campaign for change, saying, "Senator Obama talks about bringing change to America. However, when it comes to his policies on abortion he is strictly 'old school.' Every recent poll shows that America's emerging generation is embracing a culture of life and desires and end to the violence that has resulted in the deaths of over 50,000,000 innocent children and wounded so many women.” A demonstration protesting Obama’s pro-abortion policies was held yesterday at 3:30pm at West Chester University, where Sen. Obama made a campaign stop. Subscriber comments:
Published by: joe
boynton beach fl. 01/29/2010 12:03 PM EST
do I get this right? barrack would want to abort his own grand child? that doesn't sound right to me.He must have mis-spoke.
Published by: Jim B.
bridgeprt/ct/US 01/27/2010 09:59 PM EST
"Not every woman/girl wants to have a baby, so yes, in some aspect Obama was right in his statment!!! "
No, T Girl, he was not. He specifically said that if his girl "makes a mistake". This does not imply she was raped, nor does it imply incest or danger to her health. It flat out says, "if my daughter is irresponsible, she should be able to get rid of the baby that results from her mistake." This is disgusting.
Trying to twist his words in order to rationalize them is repulsive.
Published by: T Girl
Dallas/TX 10/28/2009 03:35 PM EST
So you guys are saying in the case of rape, incest, or life of the mother, abortions should still be denied? I am so appauled. So, in that case men can just do whatever they want, but the women will have to physically and emotionally carry the burden rest of her life. Anyone who considers this OK is sick and misagyanistic, and that to me says a much bolder statement than Mr. Obama's statment. Not every woman/girl wants to have a baby, so yes, in some aspect Obama was right in his statment!!!
Published by: Connie Cappel
Bourbonnais, Il 07/31/2009 06:21 PM EST
The liberals (and Obama is King) will continue to try & make you & me pay for the shedding of the innocents as they tried again this week to push through Bill 3200 and make it a part of our "health care". Abortion is not a solution - only an added burden for women to carry for the rest of their lives. The child, of course, never had a choice. Choose adoption and let your child live.
Published by: Theresa Prophet
Harmans, Md. USA 07/17/2009 11:17 AM EST  Rate: Very Good
If young people would remain celibate before marriage there would be no abortions. With todays "any thing goes" way of living nothing will ever change. Everything in life seems to be of a "me first" mentality and the heck with the consequences.
Published by: Frieda
Oklahoma City 03/11/2009 06:12 AM EST
For heaven's sake. While I don't ever find a candidate (or President) that I agree wholeheartedly on every issue, it's pretty obvious that the 'punishment' is not just a 'baby,' but what it can imply to a teenager. Shame, lost hope, burden of heavy responsibility or of giving away because not able or ready to raise a child at that time. For me, I lost a full term baby at 10 days of life at 30 years old. There is nothing that will ever help me get any further along in my grief than I am right now, but even I understood the implications this would have had for me had I been a teenager. Life is rife with the heaviness of responsibility, and we, none of us, can ever be properly prepared for all of it; but we can keep trying to make our point while our children grow in to responsible adults past the stage where they think they are 'already able' to withstand what curves life can throw at them.
Published by: Andrew
Central Point 11/19/2008 06:58 PM EST
J said; "which should include abstinence education and teaching the children -- teaching children, you know, that sex is not something casual. But it should also include -- it should also include other, you know, information about contraception because, look, I've got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old.
I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby," Obama said. If you read the quote, he is talking about support of abstinence and contraception education. He said he would teach them morals about abstinence but also about contraception, so that if they made the mistake of NOT being abstinent, they would not be punished for that mistake by having a baby. This statement has nothing to do with abortion. Before you misrepresent a statement, remember Eph. 4:25, "put away falsehood" -Andrew- He still said that a baby is a punishment. It doesn't matter which way you look at it obama said what he means. Babys are punishments for those who are abstinant. tell me, what do you suppose he would encourage his girls to do with the "punisment" after they had not been abstinant? He would tell them to have an abortion. after all, he would not want to punish them with a baby.
Published by: J
USA 10/29/2008 11:33 PM EST Rate: Regular
which should include abstinence education and teaching the children -- teaching children, you know, that sex is not something casual. But it should also include -- it should also include other, you know, information about contraception because, look, I've got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old.
I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby," Obama said. If you read the quote, he is talking about support of abstinence and contraception education. He said he would teach them morals about abstinence but also about contraception, so that if they made the mistake of NOT being abstinent, they would not be punished for that mistake by having a baby. This statement has nothing to do with abortion. Before you misrepresent a statement, remember Eph. 4:25, "put away falsehood"
Published by: Julie
Washington 09/02/2008 03:27 PM EST Rate: Regular
For all you people out there who have no problem taking an innocent statement and turning it into a monumental "issue", I would like to suggest: let he who has not sinned cast the first stone, and love thy neighbor as thyself. And remember, any human life means the same to Jesus - not just babies! Have you ANY idea what it's like having a child at such an early age with a person who really doesn't even want to be a father/mother? My guess is no, most of you have absolutely no idea. I've had relatives in a similar situation, and while I cannot say on a personal level what it does to a person(s), I sure saw what it did to 2 different families (and I use that term losely), and what it can be like for everyone even remotely involved. So stop being so self-righteous and judgmental and try to be a little more "grown up". God/Jesus will be the judge, so you don't have to take on his job.
Published by: Joe
Rockford, MI 04/18/2008 01:47 AM EST Rate: Regular
The criticism of the "oldest and most tiresome arugment there is," I still find as ridiculous as single-issue voting (kind of like only having 2 candidates with unsatisfactory stanches). This is a way more complex issue than the idiots taking offense at Obama's remark make it out to be. Lives are lives whether they are babies, soldiers, embryos, rich, poor, malcontent, satisfied, faithful and not; but at what point does one realize the R-button in the voting booth isn't getting the job done?
While I realize that the bigotry professed on the board does not represent many people at all, the word ignorant is thrown around an awful lot and no one seems to be paying any attention to history which is more indicative of the future than all the portentous, backward prophecies and hysterical reactions can ever reveal.
Published by: Lori Schmidt
Blairsville, ga. usa 04/14/2008 10:28 AM EST Rate: Good
This man did not mis-speak, he just got caught in another lie.
I question his judgement,experience, integrity and motives. this is what Barack thinks about human life:http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=11799
Published by: Kathy
Chicago, Illinois 04/08/2008 11:53 AM EST
Ayana Flowers,
You make the oldest and most tiresome arugment there is! Get a new one!!
Published by: Stephany
Weslaco, TX USA 04/06/2008 05:33 PM EST Rate: Good
I think there should be demonstrations at all of Obama's campaign stops. It was done when both he and Hillary were here in the Rio Grande Valley, Texas. People noticed and several indicated they didn't know Hillary was for abortion. The Obama event protesters were accompanied by a Catholic priest(wearing his collar, too). That one made the tv news. The message got out as best it could, but with a pro choice media it's very difficult to get anything about pro life published or broadcast.
Sadly, many people are more faithful to the Democrat party than they are to their Catholic faith.
Published by: K Asahan
Honolulu, Hawaii 04/05/2008 03:23 AM EST Rate: Good
I think Obama mis-spoke. I think he must have meant "I don't want a baby punished by my daughter" instead of "I don't want them punished with a baby." The baby did not get to make a decision that negatively impacted anyone. Unless you get to chose to be born to a specific person.
Published by: Anita
Florida,USA 04/04/2008 09:04 PM EST Rate: Very Good
To anyone who thinks that a baby is a punishment for sex outside of marriage, they need to think again. Of course we all know that sex outside of marriage is wrong but to call the baby a punishment is an affront to God our Creator and to all believers that He is that. A baby is a blessing no matter what the circumstances of its birth. Words like Obama spoke have been spoken to many children over the years that have been born out of wedlock and have damaged those children emotionally.
Published by: plm
detroit,MI,USA 04/04/2008 07:19 PM EST
Ayana Flowers... The 4,000 soldiers that have died in the war are heros who had a choice. 4,000 babies are killed in their mothers womb every day in this country! Every day! That's roughly one every 20 seconds or so. Where is the choice for these helpless human beings? The denial of truth and the self-centeredness of pro abortion folks never ceases to amaze me. It's disturbing.
Published by: Malcolm
Perth, Western Australia 04/04/2008 06:14 PM EST
Ayana Flowers should stop wondering. I am sure that Rev. Patrick J. Mahoney will respond to the plight of unwanted babies - and also street kids etc. - just like others in his position around the world do by assisting in adoptions, setting up refuges and so on. As for Iraq: it might interest you to know that right from the beginning, even when most Americans supported the invasion, the Church, including the pope, did not condone this action. I have no doubt that more than just a protest, Catholics will be doing a lot to help the injured and, no doubt, many affected families as well.
Published by: Deacon John M. Bresnahan
Lynn, Ma. USA 04/04/2008 05:44 PM EST
Sometimes our choices in elections are lousy, but who we should choose of the lousy is very clear. Barack Obama has defended in Illinois what is clearly infanticide after an attempted abortion (Even Hillary voted to protect born children in a U.S. Senate vote.)
But the"in the tank for Obama" media has refused to ask probing questions on Obama's current views--so presumably he is still for infanticide to guarantee an abortion's "success." This is lower and more bloodthirsty than any other candidate has stooped so far--even on the edxtremist, radical wing of the Dem. Party.
Published by: Maryanne
Pittsburgh 04/04/2008 04:50 PM EST
We must remember that Obama is of the culture of death. He promote abortion, voted for infanticide, wants partial birth abortion back, and voted against parents being told when underage teen daughters were taken across state lines for abortions. I am surprised that as a Black Man he supports Planned Parenthood who seeks out blacks to have abortions. That was Margaret Sanger's original goal when she founded PP.
Published by: Andrew Lilles
Clovis, CA 04/04/2008 02:44 PM EST
It is so sad that a "Right to Life" issue can simply be ignored by so many Americans. Only if Ronald Reagan could have had a conservative House and Senate to work with rather then the Liberal Democrats that held the power.
Published by: Zeebus
Minneapolis, MN 04/04/2008 02:16 PM EST
You think God likes the fact that we kill his creations out of sheer selfishness?
A man once asked God, "Lord, why don't you send someone to save us from cancer, AIDS, war, poverty, and all other evils?" And God responded, "I did...but you aborted them all." And, if killing a baby is no big deal, then why can't we kill adults? They're nothing more than babies that are bigger. The biological argument that we only abort "tissue" means that adults are also just "tissue". And if you're inconvenient to me, then I demand that the government allow me to abort you. Well?
Published by: Esther
Florida 04/04/2008 12:57 PM EST
IF OBAMA BECOMES PRESIDENT OF THE U.S.:
AMERICA WILL BE CHILDLESS... CHILDREN WILL BE MADE AND GROWN IN STATE LABORATORIES... ....WE WILL SEE ..."AMERICAN BALSERO FAMILIES"... FLEEING SOMEWHERE ELSE TO LIVE... AND LET LIVE!
Published by: Anne
ohio 04/04/2008 12:44 PM EST
Pro-lifers ARE against the war but 40 million babies murdered in the womb for the past 35 years is more than all the American casualties in all the wars fought, including the Revolutionary War. We need to listen to "Dr. Seuss theology": a person is a person no matter how small! (inside and outside of a woman!)
Published by: Donna
Chicago 04/04/2008 11:46 AM EST
Obama was and is the biggest punishment yet!
Don't let him im the White House! He'll be painting it black!
Published by: Chris Fontanini
West Des Moines, Iowa 04/04/2008 10:29 AM EST
I find these are sad times with our candidates. None of them in the running have a true regard for the dignity of all human life, from the poorest of the poor, the unborn all the way to the tomb. They need our prayers.
Published by: Mary
Kingston PA 04/04/2008 08:35 AM EST
Barack Obama says "Punish the Baby" instead.
Published by: Dorothy Swingle
Zanesville, Ohio USA 04/03/2008 06:57 PM EST
USA headed down hill,Obama Huessen, he surely will help. Can't believe they like some one of his likes????
Published by: Ayana Flowers
Brooklyn, NY 04/03/2008 05:54 PM EST Rate: Regular
I wonder how many unwanted babies Rev. Patrick J. Mahoney has taken into his home. I also wonder if the "pro-birth" crowd plans to protest the deaths of the 4000 soldiers that died needlessly in this war of choice. My guess is NEVER to both inquiries.
Published by: Wanakee
Mandeville, LA 04/03/2008 04:44 PM EST
It's so very sad that a "right to privacy" issue like abortion is thrust into the political spotlight with every major election, when even the most conservative of presidents, Ronald Reagan, stirred the pot to get elected, but did nothing to overturn Roe V Wade, though he had the backing of Congress and the Senate to do whatever he wanted. He also had a favorable Supreme Court. The Court is more conservative now than it's been in my lifetime, but nobody, and I do mean nobody, who riles up the pro-lifers does anything to rid this country of abortions. I believe in the Constitution and a woman's right to privacy. If she doesn't want to be punished, saddled, stuck, with a baby, then that's her business. The Catholic Church is right to teach that to its parishoners, but they have a right to make up their own minds when it comes to such a private and weighty matter.
Published by: Jeff Johnson
Collegeville 04/03/2008 04:27 PM EST
And not long ago, he claimed that the Sermon on the Mount supported his stance on gay marriage.
To what Bible verse will he tether his bloody devotion to abortion? And what are Catholics supposed to do this fall with Mr. McCain supporting embryonic stem cell experimentation? Unless we demand better, the answer appears to be stay home and pray.
Published by: john brosnan
waco, tx/usa 04/03/2008 02:44 PM EST
He did not say that babies are punishment.
He said that for an unmarried daughter a baby would not the best result.
Published by: John Swanson
Pasadena, California 04/03/2008 01:51 PM EST
Keep up the good work!
Published by: Pro-Life Catholic for Obama
Fort Worth, TX 04/03/2008 01:34 PM EST
When is the CDC going to denounce Reverend Hagee for his hateful anti-Catholicism? Or, is the CDC tolerant of smears against Catholicism as long as they originate from conservatives?
Published by: Jose M. Martinez
Edinburg, Texas, USA 04/03/2008 12:30 PM EST
So, at some point he also was a punishment to his mom? Is he also be a punishment fo all of us?
Published by: Susan
Canada 04/03/2008 12:25 PM EST
I fear it will be a very dark (as in sinister) day for America, if this Barack Obama actually became president. Tell you what, why not "punish" him, by not voting for him.
Published by: Gus Pinero
Boston, MA 04/03/2008 12:09 PM EST
One can hardly say that unwed young mothers have been blessed or rewarded for their casual sexual activities.
Rev. Patrick J. Mahoney, Director of the Christian Defense Coalition should be asked how refers to unwed child mothers and their sexual activities that leads to it.
Published by: James
Allen, TX 04/03/2008 11:45 AM EST
At least he was being honest. This is the contraceptive mentality and thus part of the root of the problem...the self-centeredness of our society that leads to horrific results in such holocausts as abortion.
Published by: Joan L. Roccasalvo
New York 04/03/2008 11:38 AM EST
Sen. Obama's complete voting record on social issues must be made public and accessible to the widest audience, including the youth who will blindly vote for him if he is the Democratic nominee. His stance on social issues is to the left of NARAL and the ACLU. Note must be made of his votes in Chicago concerning babies born from 'botched' abortions. The press has said nothing about his positions on social issues! He must be made to answer all questions to support his votes that are expressly against the dignity of all life.
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