[H/t: See Dubya] At the Saddleback Civic Forum one of the questions asked by pastor Rick Warren was about abortion: “Forty million abortions, at what point does a baby get human rights, in your view?” Good ol’ Barack Obama tried to punt on this one with his initial answer:

Well, you know, I think that whether you’re looking at it from a theological perspective or a scientific perspective, answering that question with specificity, you know, is above my pay grade.

Yeah, nothing like trying to become the most powerful person on planet Earth and being content to duck any inquiry, especially that one! However, the Chosen One, always in love with his own voice couldn’t help himself but continue to this effect.

But let me just speak more generally about the issue of abortion, because this is something obviously the country wrestles with. One thing that I’m absolutely convinced of is that there is a moral and ethical element to this issue. And so I think anybody who tries to deny the moral difficulties and gravity of the abortion issue, I think, is not paying attention. So that would be point number one.

But point number two, I am pro-choice. I believe in Roe v. Wade, and I come to that conclusion not because I’m pro-abortion, but because, ultimately, I don’t think women make these decisions casually. I think they — they wrestle with these things in profound ways, in consultation with their pastors or their spouses or their doctors or their family members. And so, for me, the goal right now should be — and this is where I think we can find common ground. And by the way, I’ve now inserted this into the Democratic party platform, is how do we reduce the number of abortions? The fact is that although we have had a president who is opposed to abortion over the last eight years, abortions have not gone down and that is something we have to address. [emph. mine]

And there’s the rub — that last statement is a lie outright fabrication mis-statement. The pro-choice Guttmacher Institute reports the following:

In 2005, 1.21 million abortions were performed, down from 1.31 million in 2000. From 1973 through 2005, more than 45 million legal abortions occurred.

Let’s be real generous and say that Barry’s fact checkers need to sharpen up a bit, or maybe a lot! But hey, it’s not like Obama doesn’t get tongue tied from time to time, much like our beloved current Pres., but the MSM sure gives him a pass on that, don’t they? To our amusement, The Nose On Your Face isn’t quite so kind.

Getting serious, the Obama legacy on abortion is not stellar as Michael Gerson’s April Washington Post op-ed illustrates.

Obama’s record on abortion is extreme. He opposed the ban on partial-birth abortion — a practice a fellow Democrat, the late Daniel Patrick Moynihan, once called “too close to infanticide.” Obama strongly criticized the Supreme Court decision upholding the partial-birth ban. In the Illinois state Senate, he opposed a bill similar to the Born-Alive Infants Protection Act, which prevents the killing of infants mistakenly left alive by abortion. And now Obama has oddly claimed that he would not want his daughters to be “punished with a baby” because of a crisis pregnancy — hardly a welcoming attitude toward new life.

Fox News Religion Contributor Father Jonathan Morris sees the Saddleback event as the potential beginning of the end for the Barack Obama campaign.

In this light, there were two moments in Saturday’s forum that, in my opinion, were the beginning of an unraveling of Obama’s campaign.

The first and most important of these was Obama’s response to Pastor Warren’s excellent question, “When do babies get human rights?” The senator from Illinois responded:

“I think that whether you are looking at it from a theological perspective or a scientific perspective, answering that question with specificity, you know, is above my pay grade”

Now we do know. What I find disturbing is that while Senator Obama says he doesn’t know when babies get rights, he has always felt comfortable voting to refuse the right to life to all pre-born babies, even ones who are aborted outside of the womb, through partial birth abortion or, shockingly, even after a botched abortion.

Senator Obama doesn’t know if these babies have human rights, and still he is willing to vote in favor of letting them die?

You don’t have to be a theologian or a scientist to know that kind of moral thinking is deeply flawed.

Just what we need in the White House for four or eight years — an elegant speaker whose “moral thinking is deeply flawed.”

There is no other option — Vote for John McCain.

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