Obama and Pelosi don't want you to have kids

Andrew Lacy
UNL Broadcasting Major


While the Daily Nebraskan editorial board has been worshipping at the altar of President Obama,‭ ‬we here at the Student Newspaper have been keeping a close eye on his actual policies.‭ ‬As expected,‭ ‬it took only a few days for the president to take a hard left turn against the rights of the unborn.

One of the first executive orders issue from the Obama White House is aimed a rolling back the Mexico City Policy.‭ ‬This policy,‭ ‬which was established under Ronald Reagan and expanded by George W.‭ ‬Bush,‭ ‬prevented taxpayer money from being used to support organizations that perform abortions in foreign countries.

Shortly afterward,‭ ‬Obama also lifted President Bush’s policy against taxpayer funding to support embryonic stem cell research.‭ ‬Bush instituted the policy during his first year in offices in‭ ‬2001,‭ ‬and instead directed public funding toward research with adult stem cells,‭ ‬which present no ethical problems and have proven more effective than embryonic cells.

Despite the fact that a majority of Americans‭ – ‬55‭ ‬percent according to a‭ ‬2006‭ ‬Rasmussen study‭ – ‬consider abortion morally wrong,‭ ‬President Obama has laid the groundwork to force those people to fund actions that destroy unborn life whether they like it or not.‭ ‬I guess that’s what the pro-abortion movement means when they say they’re for‭ ‘‬choice.‭’

Meanwhile,‭ ‬Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos she wants‭ ‘‬family planning services‭’ ‬to be included in Obama’s pork barrel stimulus proposal.‭ ‬For those of you who voted for Obama,‭ ‬family planning is a euphemism Democrats like to use when they don’t want people to know they’re talking about abortion.‭ ‬Pelosi’s reasoning is that many states are in a budget crisis and healthcare and education for children puts a strain on the economy.‭ ‬In other words,‭ ‬children are a burden on the economy and we need to have fewer of them.

Fortunately,‭ ‬AP reports House Democrats are likely to leave Pelosi’s proposal out of the stimulus bill.‭ ‬Unfortunately,‭ ‬they’re doing it for purely political reasons.‭ ‬President Obama has been courting House Republicans to support the bill in order to create an illusion of bipartisanship‭ – ‬translation:‭ ‬Republicans compromise their principles.‭ ‬Obama sees abortion funding as a hindrance to garnering Republican support for the pork bill,‭ ‬and pressured Democrats to exclude it.

For those of you keeping score,‭ ‬Obama has issued an executive order extending protection to terrorists,‭ ‬and two that take protection away from the unborn.‭ ‬Is that change you can believe in‭?