Obama’s speech at Notre Dame is significant. He emphasized the “open hearts, open minds, fair minded words” theme.
The problem is, abortion is a moral issue. Why would you have an open heart, open mind, and use fair-minded words with people who favor committing the biggest moral crime imaginable, the killing of a human being?
Let’s be clear about what abortion is. Abortion is the killing of a human being. If that needs to be done to save the life of the mother, fine. But if it is done as a matter of “choice”, that’s different.
Now. Let’s be clear. Obama has said definitively that deciding when life begins is “above my pay grade”. Well, then he has no role in this discussion. It belongs to those who see it as in their “pay grade”, and I have no problem with anybody who steps up to that measure of moral conviction.
I don’t have a problem with Obama speaking at the Notre Dame commencement. I DO have a problem with the University awarding him a degree, particularly a law degree. Why? Because law is about the protection of rights, and his position on abortion is to support policy that violates the rights of the unborn. There is no room for civility in that.
At this point, according to the CDC, in the US there are about 45 million dead babies whose right to live has been violated since Roe v. Wade was decided.
Think about it. 45 million. Our total population in the country is about 305 million. How many Einstein’s did we lose? How many Magic Johnson’s did we lose? Even Norma McCorvey (the “Roe” in Roe v. Wade) has changed her position and become adamantly pro-life.
I’m not a Catholic and I find their dependence on ritual to be silly. Still, they do have a moral code, and Notre Dame threw that principle out the window by awarding Obama this degree.
Want to know what to think? Think about 45 million pairs of eyes looking at you and asking, why didn’t we get the opportunity to live our life and you did?
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
45 million unborn US citizens have been denied this right. This isn’t a religious issue, but it is a moral one.
