As I was scanning the pages of HuffPo a little while ago, a headline grabbed my attention, and I had to read the story.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
I usually pay no mind to the lunatics over at The National Review, but this one was exceptionally ridiculous.
Ed Whelan's post today.
http://corner.nationalreview.com/...
My favorite line:
That Obama may owe his very life to a pre-Roe legal regime that banned abortion is, to be sure, not necessarily a reason that he should favor that regime
So, Mr Whelan feels it necessary to opine that, maybe, just maybe, Obama's mother would have considered having an abortion, if the laws were different at the time.
Now he doesn't really say why she might have considered it, other than she was a freshman in college. And it's not surprising, in the current political climate of "kill him, and "he's a terrorist", that the lunatics start fantasizing about, "he should have been aborted, even though it's fundamentally wrong, but we'd make an exception in his case".
I know that the righties have no moral compass and that they're willing to say and invoke anything to win and retain power. However to assume that Ann Dunham might have considered abortion (she very well could have, I can't say since I do not know her or have a talent for reading minds), is far fetched to say the least. To say that she might have considered aborting her pregnancy all those years ago is the same as pondering the what ifs of what the world would have been like had Abe Lincoln never been born. It is frivolous. Unless you are a close, personal friend of either of Barack Obama's parents and were privy to such conversations at the time, it serves no purpose other than to incite speculation and spotlight your own ignorance and fear to make such statements.
The human condition is to fear that which we do not understand and to destroy that which we fear. By speculating on a young woman's state of mind upon finding out that she is pregnant is to discount the very essences of that person and their right and determination to make their own decisions. Just because she did not have the choice legally at the time, does not mean she would not have made the same choices in the end. How dare anyone assume that it was simply a lack of options that kept anyone born pre-Roe V Wade alive. What year were you born Mr. Whelan?
Until November 4th I will be doing all I can to get Barack Obama elected, and on January 20th we will all make the lunatics nightmare come true when Barack Obama takes the oath of office.