Sen. Barack Obama portrays himself as a thoughtful Democrat who carefully considers both sides of controversial issues, but his radical stance on abortion puts him further left on that issue than even NARAL Pro-Choice America.
In 2002, as an Illinois legislator, Obama voted against the Induced Infant Liability Act, which would have protected babies that survived late-term abortions. That same year a similar federal law, the Born Alive Infant Protection Act, was signed by President Bush. Only 15 members of the U.S. House opposed it, and it passed the Senate unanimously on a voice vote.
Both the Illinois and the federal bill sought equal treatment for babies who survived premature inducement for the purpose of abortion and wanted babies who were born prematurely and given live-saving medical attention.
Jill Stanek, a registered delivery-ward nurse who was the prime mover behind the legislation after she witnessed aborted babies’ being born alive and left to die, testified twice before Obama in support of the Induced Infant Liability Act bills. She also testified before the U.S. Congress in support of the Born Alive Infant Protection Act.
Stanek told me her testimony “did not faze” Obama.
In the second hearing, Stanek said, “I brought pictures in and presented them to the committee of very premature babies from my neonatal resuscitation book from the American Pediatric Association, trying to show them unwanted babies were being cast aside. Babies the same age were being treated if they were wanted!”Cold......
“And those pictures didn’t faze him [Obama] at all,” she said.
As a senator, Obama has opposed measures to criminalize those who transport minors across state lines for the purpose of obtaining an abortion.I think we are all doomed if he wins......what a sicko.....
At a townhall meeting in Ottawa, Ill., Joanne Resendiz, a teacher and mother of five, asked him: “How are you going to vote on this, keeping in mind that 10, 15 years down the line your daughters, God forbid, could be transported across state lines?”
Obama said: “The decision generally is one that a woman should make.”
Adoption: An American Revolution will show how adoption affects all of us in America today.
Nearly 100 million Americans — one-third of our population — have had their own families re-shaped by adoption. Even so, adoptive families and birth parents still suffer from widespread and damaging myths and prejudices; thoughtful, realistic portrayals of adoption in the media are rare. Adoption: An American Revolution will promote greater understanding of adoption's unique role in embracing social differences and diversity in America today.The project will help develop and support our understanding of a new, more expansive definition of "family."
The project will help viewers understand the many ways adoption is changing American families and communities. It will demonstrate how adoption contributes complexity, a respect for differences, and a reminder that we can always make space in our hearts for others.
Through intimate stories and expert testimony, the project will reveal adoption as a complex and deeply personal experience.
Adoption is filled with powerful emotional truths: love and grief, personal bonds relinquished and others created. The Adoption project will explore these experiences in interviews with adoptive and birth parents and extended families, with adopted children and adults, and adoption professionals and experts.
Even now, the portrayal of adoption in the media is filled with negative stereotypes and images. Audiences are shown "Who's Your Daddy" and told this is the story of adoption.WGBH has secured partial funding from the CPB/PBS Program Challenge Fund but they still need your help. If you can donate, please do. The people who know adoption has changed their lives for the better need to stand up and refute all the bad reports out there....so give if you can.
The true story of adoption still needs to be told, with passion, depth and honesty. This is why we want to bring our adoption film, Adoption: An American Revolution to public television. But we can only do it with your help.
A human embryo at 7 weeks gestation, measuring approximately 14 mm (crown to rump). The upper limbs, fingers, and face are developing and growing rapidly but are still forming their shape. The eye is developing but is not functioning yet. The brain is developing rapidly and the blood vessels supplying it with blood are clearly visible.
Hand of a fetus at 15 weeks gestation. At this stage the fetus measures approximately 92 mm (crown to rump), the fetal face and limbs are well formed, the eyes are sealed shut but are sensitive to light, the fetus can hear and responds to some sounds with movement, and fingernails and fingerprints have developed. The fetal bones have been stained with a dye which only stains the calcified regions.
Human fetus at 16 weeks gestation, measuring approximately 110 mm (crown to rump). At this stage, the fetal face and limbs are well formed, fingernails can be seen on the hands, and fingerprints have developed on the skin. The eyes are sealed shut but are sensitive to light, and the fetus can hear and respond to some sounds with movement. The fetal bones have been stained with a dye which only stains the calcified regions.
What happen to the good old days when people were not wusses?"Every adoptee loses their birth family, even in open adoptions. Loss creates sadness and anger and sometimes depression. Loss leads to yearning and mourning for what is no longer ours. Adoptees can sometimes feel this on a daily basis."Bla, bla, bla.... give me a break. Is our society so hung up on our "feelings" and so self centered they need all this therapy for all their "problems"?....hmmm...."your parents didn't give you enough validation and I think it's all because you were adopted"...that will be $100 please.
