It’s strange how Obama has become the most divisive president in recent times especially when he came on a big wave of optimism and according to Gail Collins of the NYT; “Obama has acheieved a greater domestic agenda than any president in the last half-century”. An article by T. Hobson missed the point in suggesting that Obama’s rise to presidency was based on a religious undertone; quite on the contrary as even Obama’s former pastor (J. Wright) admitted that he was the first to be thrown under the bus, and to date he’s the only US president to least attend church publicly since JFK.
A quick fact check and you will realise that Obama has done more for the unborn than any other US president since Roosevelt passed Social Security Act in 1935. He passed the biggest reform to health care which will provides health care to more than 40 million Americans; including the unborn. This is the biggest single gift to the unborn. And contrary to all the rumours the bill does not mention abortion in its entirety , but rather Obama has signed an executive order preventing its use for abortion.
Obama pro-choice stance is quite simply and reasonable; the decision should be left to the women as none of them come to this lightly. This point of view is quite different from supporting abortion as it embodies empathy and reality in dealing with the issue as opposed to idealism. As Roe Vs Wade (1973) affirmed, the 14th amendment must stand tall and in subtle way emphasizes the right to privacy.
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