I was listening to Hue Hewitt on the radio this week, and he played an audio clip of Obama talking about abortion, using his own children as an example. Here’s what he said:
“Look, I got two daughters — 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first about values and morals, but if they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.”
Yes, for those of us who are pro-life, Obama’s views on abortion are sickening. So - no need to discuss that. There are two main issues here that are worth discussing.
The first is a complete disregard for the consequences of your actions. Sex is designed for reproduction. If you have sex, you could produce a child. If you don’t want a child, don’t have sex! If you have sex, a child might just happen. Are those not obvious statements? Who, who enters into a sexual relationship with someone, doesn’t know that having sex could result in a pregnancy? To say that someone shouldn’t have to deal with the consequences of their actions, when they know what could happen, is an outrage. But that sure seems like where the american culture is veering, doesn’t it? Someone spills their coffee (their fault), and it burns them (the result of their own mistake - and besides, who orders a coffee and doesn’t expect it to be hot?) - and that person sues the company that gave them the coffee and wins for $2.86 million. If we turn into a culture where nobody is responsible for their own actions - we are going to run into serious, very serious issues - as is already happening today.
The other issue here is the fact that Obama considers pregnancy as a punishment. The gift of children is becoming a punishment to people. If I do an action that produces children, yet I don’t want a child, yet a pregnancy happens and I have that child - should I consider it a punishment? Is that really fair to say? Is that fair to the child? Not only is that child looked at as a punishment, that child often has to grow up in an environment that is not at all well suited for a child. The child is the one ending up getting punished, and for the selfishness of the parent.
It is very sad to me that a man of attitude is being so highly praised and so hoped for to be the future leader of this country, which was once built to be one nation, under God. Our country is becoming “one nation, to do what ever the heck you want… Oh, and don’t worry about consequences of what you choose to do because we’ve got all sorts of ways out of it, and even ways to get rich from the mistakes you make.”
