Obama's first 50 days: the anti-life assault begins.

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The election of Barack Obama as president, Catholic Insight stated in its November 3, 2008 press release, would turn out to be a disaster for the advance of a pro-life culture. On the most important cultural issue of all, the equality and dignity of all human beings before God, he represents the greatest threat today, even more so than the notorious Marxist revolution of 1917 with its attack on the family. That revolution was rejected by the Western world. On the other hand, Obama's leadership is hailed as a sign of hope across the world and welcomed with open arms.

Obama has a 100 per cent approval rating from NARAL Pro-Choice America, the U.S.'s leading pro-abortion organization. That rating is based on a record of consistently voting against the unborn. Obama has told Planned Parenthood he regards so-called choice as "a fundamental issue" on which he will not yield.

Obama voted against an Induced Infant Liability Act in the Illinois legislature in 2002; this would have given legal protection and medical assistance to a baby born from a botched abortion. He also voted against banning partial-birth abortion in the Senate in October, 2007.

On another key issue, the integrity of the traditional family, in 2004 Obama called the Defense of Marriage Act an "abhorrent law" and declared: "The repeal of DOMA is essential ... For the record, I opposed DOMA in 1996. It should be repealed and I will vote for its repeal on the Senate floor. I will also oppose any proposal to amend the U.S. Constitution to ban gays and lesbians from marrying."

"We must be careful to keep our eyes on the prize-equal rights for every American," he has told homosexual activists. "We must continue to fight for the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA).

We must vigorously expand hate-crime legislation and be vigilant about how these laws are enforced. We must continue to expand adoption rights to make them consistent and seamless throughout all 50 states, and we must repeal the 'don't ask, don't tell' military policy."

Apart from issues of human life and the family, there are numerous other question marks surrounding Obama, many of which are covered by Dr. Jerome Corsi in his New York Times bestselling book, The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality. (See page 32 in this edition).

INAUGURATION

January 20, 2009: Barack Obama is sworn in as President of the United States of America. His birth certificate is not available. He calls himself a "person of faith" without specifying what faith he means. It is not Christianity founded by Jesus and entrusted to his apostles.

Jan. 20: In his inaugural address, the President neglects to mention the American Founders' emphasis on Life and Liberty as the first of the inalienable rights in the Declaration of Independence.

Five minutes after Barack Hussein Obama became President, the White House website changes from pro-life to pro-abortion.

POLICIES

Jan. 21. * The president is at work selecting members of his staff and Cabinet while Congress, where Democrats have a majority in both the Senate and the House of Representatives, set to work developing policies and legislation to advance the agnosticatheist attack on the Judeo-Christian foundations of law and order. In Congress Obama receives assistance from numerous Catholic politicians who have scuttled Catholic moral teaching in favour of the "politically correct," i.e., various aspects of modern hedonism and the culture of death.

While the overriding focus of attention of the first 50 days was the economy, the bail-out of banks, various "stimulus" packages, the housing credit and unemployment crises, the anti-life agenda was set in motion from the beginning.

Jan. 21-22. * President Obama signs executive orders calling for closure of Guantanamo Bay (Jan. 22), a ban on torture (Jan. 22) and new rules on transparency and lobbyists (Jan. 21). This is what draws the attention of the world.

Jan. 21. * Meanwhile, the White House website is updated-under the title Civil Rights: for the LGBT activists lists, it reads:

* SSM (Same sex "marriage")

* Repeal the Defense of Marriage Act (D.O.M.A.);

* Repeal the army's Don't Ask Don't Tell policy,

* Pass "hate crime" legislation granting "transgendered" homosexual activists and cross-dressers equal rights;

* Pass the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA)

* Promote 'gay adoption,' (i.e., motherless or fatherless homes for children).

Jan. 22. * Buried in the House Stimulus Bill in Section 5004, is "State eligibility option for Family Planning." This would make national Medicaid a money machine to the tune of $87 billion for Family Planning clinics in the United States (NB to readers: Family Planning in the US as well as in Canada and elsewhere means: "Planning not to have families," i.e. promote contraception, sterilization and abortion). The US already spends more than US $400 million on overseas "family planning" assistance each year.

* The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approves a guide for the use of embryonic stem cells for human trial. (NB: Till this point in time embryonic stem cell research has never cured or helped any patient; on the other hand, the use of adult stem cells already has some 80 medical achievements on its roster.)

* Two hundred thousand people walk in the March for Life in Washington marking the 36th anniversary of Roe vs. Wade (establishing abortion in the USA).

*President Obama issues a written statement that he backs a woman's "right to choose."

Jan. 23. * Obama overturns, by Executive Order, the Mexico City Policy of previous presidents that forbids the funding of abortions and abortion groups outside US boundaries. (No TV cameras or press present for signing by the President on a late Friday afternoon when news services are shut down. Hundreds of millions of dollars will go to support abortions in poor countries, esp. in Asia, Africa and South America.)

* Appended to the statement announcing the end of the Mexico City Policy, Obama declared: "In addition, I look forward to working with Congress to restore US financial support for the UN Population Fund. (The funding was halted in 2002 when a State Department investigation showed the UN Fund supported China's coercive one-child-per-family policy through forced abortion and sterilization.)

Jan. 25. * House of Representatives Majority Leader Nancy Pelosi (Catholic, pro-abortion, pro-SSM) declares that contraception is now part of the U.S. economy.

Jan. 26. * President Obama calls upon Democratic leaders to remove the "family planning" provisions supported by Pelosi from the $825 billion stimulus bill, after Americans, including the Drudge report, ridiculed the items as non-starters in stimulating the economy and creating more jobs. Senate Republicans threaten a filibuster.

Jan. 27. * A Congressional Committee is debating the Prevention First Act (PFA) which, if passed, would hand over millions to "family planning" methods, attack the freedom of conscience of health providers, and financially pave the way for the proposed Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA), which will strip all states of restricting abortions and homosexual activism.

* The Prevention First Act was introduced by Senate majority leader Harry Reid (Mormon, pro-abortion) on Jan. 6, 2009. The Act claims to reduce unintended pregnancies and abortion. It is based on the premise that contraception prevents abortion. (In reality, contraception is the gateway to abortion.)

* Susan Rice, Obama's new ambassador to the UN, pledges support for the convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). Already the CEDAW committee has tried to bully 93 countries to make abortion legal.

* The administrator of the US AID foreign assistance program, pro-life Kent Hill, is replaced with Alonzo Fulgham, the CEO of the agency who announces that the reversal of the Mexico City Policy is being implemented immediately. Fulgham issues a formal notice informing its field offices worldwide.

* The Director of the U.N. Population Fund (UNFPA), pro-abortion Thoraya Obaid (Saudi Arabia), welcomes the Obama restoration of $40-60 million annually to UNFPA's coffers coercive population plan. "Access to reproductive health" (code word for contraception, sterilization and abortion) "is the core of equality for women and girls," she says. UNFPA stands to gain $250 million in US taxpayers' money annually.

Jan. 28. * President Obama tells Democrats to remove a bailout for the Planned Parenthood abortion business ($200 million for 295 abortuaries and 850 consultation centres) from the economic stimulus bill, again after vigorous pro-life protests, for fear that it might jeopardize the bill's passage. It is dropped on Jan 30.

* The Senate defeats an amendment to restore the Mexico City Policy, 60-37. (Eighteen out of 24 Catholic Senators voted to defeat the amendment.)

* Pro-life groups continue their massive protests and opposition to the FOCA bill, which has now been filed with Congress. The Freedom or Choice Act would outlaw every abortion restriction passed by Congress, state legislatures, or local communities. President Obama has repeatedly expressed his support for FOCA, the last time on January 22, 2008, the 35th anniversary of Roe vs Wade. FOCA's sponsor is Senator Barbara Boxer (Jewish, pro-abortion).

Jan. 29. * The UN children's agency UNICEF, launched its annual report stating: "Having a child remains one of the biggest health risks for women worldwide." It recommends global financing for "family planning" and "reproductive health services" as the primary way to reduce maternal deaths. It then admits that the statistics on worldwide annual deaths are subject "to a high degree of uncertainty."

* Senate (59-39) rejects national medical coverage in the SCHIP program for unborn children and their pregnant mothers. This, pro-life sources say, will lead to more abortions, supposedly against the President's intention of reducing abortions.

Feb. 5. * The President's new group of 24 Faith-based advisors include Rabbi David Saperstein, director of the Washington based Religious Action Centre of Reform Judaism, sponsor of a 2004 pro-abortion march by Planned Parenthood and NARAL. Other pro-abortion members are added later.

Feb. 6. * Senate refuses to remove discrimination clause against religious use of university facilities benefiting from the stimulus bill.

Feb. 19. * The federal government is drafting the guidelines that will be put in place once the President approves federal funds for embryonic stem cell research.

Feb. 25. * As feared by pro-life groups, the Omnibus Appropriations Bill cuts funding for abstinence education by $54 million, while giving more money to Planned Parenthood programs. This leaves only $95 million for national programs. This disappears later on.

* Time Magazine, in attacking opponents of the FOCA bill, is accused of many inaccuracies, non-sequiturs, and misrepresentations. Time described the bill as "mythical." Yet, Barack Obama announced his intentions to sign in 2006, again in a July, 2007, speech to Planned Parenthood, and once more on Jan 22, 2008, at the Roe vs Wade anniversary.

Feb. 27. * The Obama administration prepares to rescind conscience rules for health workers. Obama officials tell the Chicago Tribune that for the Provider Conscience Law and other regulations protecting medical personnel against involvement with abortions, they are opening a 30-day public comment period, after which they will rescind the law. Pro-abortion groups have long desired to coerce all medical personnel and all hospitals to provide contraception, sterilization and commit abortions. As one writer put it, "This is a declaration of war on all who oppose the killing of the unborn."

March 5. * Senate rejects amendment to stop funds going to the United Nations Population Fund (55-39).

March 6. * President Obama shuts out pro-life groups from attending today's White House health care summit called to discuss how health care reform should be constructed. Pro-abortion groups like Planned Parenthood are invited to attend.

March 9. * The President reverses the eight-year-old limits on federal money for the use of embryonic stem cells for research--which kills the newly conceived embryo--by Presidential decree, in a room packed with scientists.

* Health Secretary announces intention to abolish the "final rule" (protection of conscience for health workers opposed to abortion, contraception, IVF, etc).

March 10. * End of first 50 days. Except for publicity about the new financing of stem-cell research and a mention of the overturning of the Mexico City Policy, adoring liberal daily newspapers have not mentioned Obama's new Death Culture.

March 12 * Senate stimulus bill contains bailout package for Planned Parenthood.

* Senate rejects amendment to stop US taxpayer funding of UNFPA (Population fund), 55-39. UNFPA backs policies of forced abortion and sterilizations as in China.

APPOINTMENTS

During the first 50 days President Obama selects the most anti-life, anti-family radicals he can find for his administration.

* Vice-President Joseph Biden (Senator, Catholic, pro-abortion, pro-SSM).

* Secretary of State Hilary Clinton (methodist, feminist, extremely pro-abortion). As head of the State Department, Clinton controls the American UN delegation.

* Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano (former governor of Arizona, Catholic, strongly pro-abortion and pro-SSM).

* Secretary of the Interior Raul Grijalva (Democratic congressman from Arizona, Catholic, 100% approval rating from NARAL).

* Secretary of Defence Robert Gates, holdover from the Bush administration

* National Security Adviser Retired Marine General James Jones.

* Labour Secretary Thida (Hilda) Solis (Calif. Cogresswoman, Catholic, pro-abortion).

* Transportation Secretary Ray Labood (Rep Congressman, pro-life)

* Secretary of Education Arne Duncan (favours separate schools for homosexuals)

* Secretary of Treasury Timothy Geithner (President, Federal Reserve, Bank of New York, Clinton holdover).

* Secretary of Energy Steven Chu (1997 Nobel prize physics)

* Central Intelligence Agency (C.I.A.) Director Leon Panetta (former Congressman; Bill Clinton's chief of staff; Catholic, pro-abortion).

* Food and Drug Administration Director Margaret Hamburger (New York City Health Commissioner under Mayor Giuliani, pro-abortion). An earlier appointment was listed as Jane Henney (headed FDA under Clinton; Professor at University of Cincinnati, approved abortion drug RU 486 (mifepristone).

LEGAL COUNSEL

* Attorney General Eric Holder. First African-American to hold this office (was Deputy Attorney-General under Janet Reno during Clinton years).

* Deputy Attorney General David Ogden (denies negative effects of abortion; considers pregnancy a form of slavery; lawyer for Playboy and other pornographic interests).

* Office of Legal Counsel, White House (Assists Attorney General in her role as legal adviser to the President). Dawn Johnsen (pro-abortion, lawyer, and Legal Director for NARAL Pro-Choice America, 1988-1933, Professor at Indiana University School of Law).

* Assisted Deputy Attorney General Thomas Perrelli (lawyer, pro-euthanasia, represented Terry Schiavo's husband in his successful quest to have his wife starved and dehydrated to death).

* Solicitor General Elena Kagan. (Strong pro-abortion supporter. The Solicitor General represents the government before the Supreme Court.)

HEALTH

* Health Secretary and Health Services (HHS) Kathleen Sebelius (Former governor of Kansas, Catholic, pro-abortion, including support for late term abortions [Ontario and Quebec send late term abortions to Kansas, paying an average of $5000 US for each.] HHS would play a role in getting abortion coverage in the new health program and make it mandatory that hospitals or insurance companies cover abortion.)

* Health Care Office, White House. Nancy-Ann De Parle, political advisor (pro-abortion)

* Deputy Health Care Director Jeanne Lambow (pro-abortion)

Other Clinton holdovers and Washington lobbyists for White House appointments (do not require Congressional approval)

* Chief of Staff, White House Rahm Emanuel (Congressman, Ill., Jewish, pro-abortion-100% NARAL pro-choice rating; pro-SSM).

* White House political advisor David Axelrod (Jewish, pro-abortion) Mr Axelrod was President Obama's main election strategist during the two-year long campaign for office.

* Director of Communications Ellen Moran. (Former CEO of Emily's List, a major and wealthy pro-abortion political action Committee).

* Director of Domestic Policy Melody Barnes. (Former board member of Emily's List and Planned Parenthood staff member).

* Director for Foreign Women's issues (New office to re-affirm the population and development goals of Beijing 1995, i.e., to promote abortions and overturn pro-life laws in foreign countries) Melanne Verveer (former chief of staff to Hilary Clinton; Catholic pro-abortion). Holds rank of ambassador-at-large.

* White House Council on Women and Girls (New office) Director Tina Tchen (Chicago lawyer. Vice-president of NOW, feminist, pro-abortion. Mandate to examine all federal laws and agencies pertaining to women).

* Council on Environment Quality Nancy Sutley (lesbian).

* Director Environment Protection agency Lisa Jackson

* Climate Czarina, White House Carol Browner

* Director Office of Management and Budget Peter Orszag (former economic advisor to Clinton).

* Head of National Economic Council, White House. Lawrence Summers (former Clinton advisor).

* Chairman of the Democratic party Tim Kayne (Governor of Virginia, Catholic, pro-abortion).

SUMMARY

The facts of the first 50 days of the Obama presidency seem overwhelming. According to the 55-page pro-abortion document, "Advancing Reproductive Rights and Health in a New Administration," 4.5 billion dollars in federal funding will be disbursed at home and abroad to "advance reproductive rights." This document is posted on www.change.org http://www.change.org, Obama's official website for his transition team.

Obama's Steps For the First 100 Days projects the end of the Mexico City Policy, the Hyde Amendment, the Kemp-Kasten amendment, the Weldon Amendment, restrictions on emergency contraception (Plan B), the termination for all abstinence-only programs, and a reversal of the recent HHS regulation protecting pro-life physicians and institutions. By day 50 many of these had been accomplished already. Any present obstacles to so-called abortion rights not covered by removing these restrictions, such as the ban on partial birth abortion and state laws requiring parental notification, will be covered by the passage of the Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA).

We draw the attention of our readers especially to the coercion which is built into many of these measures.

A combined United States--United Nations assault on the freedom of poor countries to determine their own domestic policies on population will soon be underway.

At home, the Obama regime will take on more abusive, tyrannical features as it seeks to destroy the rights of people to disagree and dissent. All along this has been the implication of the new legislated rights to kill and to overthrow the natural moral law in family and sexual matters introduced 40 years ago. The President and his advisors will be making some 7000 appointments that will influence policy; they will be pro-abortion ones, said one commentator, with the exception being the ambassador to the Vatican.

What resistance the Christian community will be able to offer remains to be discussed in a future article. That time now is not to surrender but to fight back with all our might. The grace of Christ is stronger than the power of evil.

SOURCES: Americans For Truth, American Life League Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute; Culture of Life Foundation; Life News.com; Life Site News.com; National Post; Population Research Institute; Time; United families.org; The Wanderer; World Net Daily.com, Zenit.org.