By Mark Rhoads -
When we track Barack Obama's statements on abortion back to his days as an Illinois State Senator, it is fair to say that his views are far more extreme than most people who call themselves "pro-choice" and we have to wonder why. Obama's intellectual dishonestly on this issue often leads him to choose to be willfully obtuse about the basic facts of biology and human reproduction.
In order to hold his extreme pro-abortion views, Obama dares not admit that any fetus before birth is in any way defined as human life. A far more scary interpretation would be that Obama does understand the fetus is a human life but just does not care because he thinks it is not entitled to live or that the desire of the mother to kill the fetus trumps all other competing rights. I wonder if this so-called legal scholar has ever read anything about Illinois history or the racist opinion of Chief Justice Roger B. Tanney in Dred Scott v. Sandford, 60 U.S. 393 (1857)? By a vote of 7 to 2 the Court reversed the ruling of a Federal Court in Missouri that said Dred Scott was a free man because he had been illegally held as a slave in Rockford, Illinois from 1833 to 1836 when Illinois was a free state under the provisions of the Northwest Ordnance of 1789. Tanney's view of the rights of black Americans in 1857 was very close to Obama's view of the rights of unborn children in 2013. Tanney said that black Americans were not citizens and had no standing to sue in Federal Court regardless of whether they were slaves or free men only because of their race. Obama believes that unborn children have no rights because he thinks they are not citizens only because they are not yet born. Tanney wrote that black Americans were the personal property of thier owners. Obama believes that unborn children are the property of mothers who can dispose of them as they see fit. It took a Civil War, the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863, and the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the Constitution to finally reverse the racist extremism of Tanney in the Dred Scott case. Only a new Constitutional Amendment apparently can reverse the pro-death extremism of Obama and the Roe. v. Wade (1973) case.
