Good Call...

This is a short one. Many out there, most self-professed Christians, chastised conservatives and other Christians for, like this author did, suggesting that abortion was an important issue when considering a political candidate. We were "single-issue voters". Our emotions were manipulated by the Republican party.

Always Obama supporters, these informed voters contended that more important issues existed, that the Office of the President didn't have the power to affect the abortion landscape.

This argument was ignorant. It revealed one's lack of understanding about the structure of the US government. I would ask "them" to tell me what law made abortion legal. "They" didn't know. That's because there wasn't one.

"Then what makes abortion 'legal'?" I would continue. More often than not, "they" didn't know. It was a Supreme Court decision (Roe v Wade).

Oh, I could see them thinking.

"Who appoints the Supreme Court Justices?" was my next question. Blank stare. That's right, the President of the United States.

Enough of the civics lesson. In Obama's first few days, the Executive Orders (that means exactly how it sounds for those who slept during Political Science 101, no voting just an "order") have continued to flow. One of them, signed today, allows the federal government to use tax dollars to fund abortions overseas. That's right, civics specialists, in less than a week, the President has issued (actually repealed a previous Executive Order) a decree to fund abortions in other countries, as if here wasn't enough. Don't believe me, read the article: "Obama Lifts Ban on Overseas Abortion Funding".

One of my favorite professors in college said, "The problem with free speech is knowing who to listen to..." He was right.