Obama 7/17/07: “Reproductive care is essential…basic care…It is at the center and the heart of the (health care) plan that I’ve proposed.”

In his now infamous speech to Planned Parenthood in 2007, then candidate Obama, explains what he thinks about abortion being part of health care reform. Remember:

“‘Reproductive health’ includes access to abortion.”
~Secretary of State Hillary Clinton

Obama’s wording here is significant because, while the word “abortion” may not appear in either of the health care bills, the term “essential benefit” is and will likely be interpreted by the courts to mandate abortion coverage as illustrated by past administrative and legal interpretation. MRL President Pam Fichter explains this in her response to a statement by Sen. Claire McCaskill last week.

Thanks to National Right to Life for providing this video. Watch the entire (disturbing) speech.

MRL Denounces Obama’s Actions

Memo from Missouri Right to Life:

Missouri Right to Life denounces President Obama’s Executive Order mandating taxpayer funding of research that will destroy living human embryos. Obama’s reversal of the Bush administration’s policy limiting taxpayer funding to research that did not promote the further destruction of human embryos will result in the wide-scale destruction of human life.

“President Obama’s action today illustrates a profound disregard for the unalienable right to life acknowledged by our founding fathers and mandates that taxpayers will be forced to subsidize life-destroying research,” said Pam Fichter, President of Missouri Right to Life.

“Missouri Right to Life supports ethical research using adult stem cells, which have produced treatments for many diseases and ailments, including Parkinson’s Disease, heart disease, spinal cord injuries, diabetes, and multiple sclerosis. Obama’s action comes at a time when scientists now possess the ability to produce embryo-like stem cells that do not involve the destruction of human embryos. President Obama is advancing an extreme anti-life agenda that sacrifices human lives in complete disregard for scientific reality.”

All citizens who oppose the use of their taxpayer money to support life-destroying and unproven research are urged to contact their elected representatives and President Obama and express their outrage at this Executive Order.

(view memo online)