by
John Nolte
President Clinton believed abortion should be "safe, rare; and legal." But Clinton also believed in a work requirement in his welfare reform bill.
President Obama apparently disagrees on both counts.
After unilaterally allowing states to
waive the central pillar of the landmark and bipartisan 1996 welfare
reform act -- the work requirement -- Obama has also proven himself to be
a wild-eyed extremist on the issue of abortion and way out of step with
at least two-thirds of the American people. And his convention platform
backs this extremism up.
In 2008, the Democrat Party platform on abortion read this way:
The Democratic Party strongly and
unequivocally supports Roe v. Wade and a woman’s right to choose a safe
and legal abortion, regardless of ability to pay, and we oppose any and
all efforts to weaken or undermine that right.
Obama was in charge of the Democrat
Party in 2008, and there's been no scuttlebutt whatsoever about any
change that might include an exception for children who are already
partially born and very much alive -- but still aborted. The practice
known as partial-birth abortion is infanticide -- nothing more, nothing
less. It's a horrifying procedure (more here) that over two-thirds of Americans believe should be illegal.
And there's little hope the 2012
platform will calibrate towards sanity and include this exception. After
all, Obama is still in charge of the Democrat Party, and while running
for the U.S. Senate in 2003, Obama defended late-term abortion:
