Obama and Governmental Funding of Abortion

There are various aspects of Barack Obama's political stand on abortion that illustrate just how extreme he truly is, in spite of the impression he tries to create otherwise.

Obama has supported governmental funding of abortion:

In a speech before Planned Parenthood last July, Barack Obama said: "The first thing I'd do as president is sign the Freedom of Choice Act." Obama is a co-sponsor of the act, which would prohibit discrimination against abortion through the "regulation or provision of benefits, facilities, services, or information"--i.e. if government funds childbirth, government must fund abortion.

Following Obama's Planned Parenthood speech last July, the Chicago Tribune reported: "Asked about his proposal for expanded access to health insurance, Obama said it would cover 'reproductive-health services.' Contacted afterward, an Obama spokesman said that included abortions." So Obama supports taxpayer funding not just for Medicaid recipients' abortions. In principle, he supports coverage for anyone who wants it.

But it is clear from the above excerpt that it is not just governmental funding of abortion that he supports.  He also wants to require that the private sector pay for it.

The implications of this are clear.  He wants all taxpayers and all payers of insurance premiums to pay for abortion.  He wants Christian conservatives, devout Catholics and orthodox Jews to pay for abortions even though it may be directly opposed to their morals and ethics-- even though it may be a direct affront to those values.  It requires that people of faith pay for the taking of innocent human life without any legitimate justification.

It is the political equivalent of rubbing their noses in it.

Some might call Obama's position downright evil.  But it is, at the very least, a particularly awful brand of extremism.