{"id":696,"date":"2011-02-04T10:01:32","date_gmt":"2011-02-04T10:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.medic8.com\/news\/?p=696"},"modified":"2011-02-04T10:01:32","modified_gmt":"2011-02-04T10:01:32","slug":"us-senator-invokes-obamas-race-in-abortion-row-0032","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.medic8.com\/news\/us-senator-invokes-obamas-race-in-abortion-row-0032\/","title":{"rendered":"US Senator Invokes Obama’s Race in Abortion Row-0032"},"content":{"rendered":"

The debate surrounding abortion<\/a> took a new twist recently when a former Pennsylvania Senator mentioned the US President\u2019s race during an interview.<\/p>\n

He said: “The question is — and this is what Barack Obama didn’t want to answer — is that human life a person under the Constitution? And Barack Obama says no.<\/p>\n

“Well if that person, human life is not a person, then, I find it almost remarkable for a black man to say, ‘we are going to decide who are people and who are not people.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Much of the debate about abortion in the USA seems to surround one question, namely is a foetus a person? The pro abortionists say no while the anti abortionists are firmly in the yes camp.<\/p>\n

It is a difficult question in reality to answer, and will probably never be answered to any degree of satisfaction.<\/p>\n

However for a US citizen to raise the race of an individual in an abortion debate is rather disturbing. But there seems to be a precedent for such an attack. Opponents of abortion recently compared fertilised eggs to black slaves living in America prior to the civil war; they were not considered fully human. Citing the Illinois Rights to Life Committee the Senator said: “The court decisions on slavery v[ersu]s abortion demonstrate an equivalent denial of personhood for two different categories of human beings, slaves and unborn children.”<\/p>\n

Opponents also argue that legalised abortion has lead to what they call a \u2018black holocaust\u2019; therefore black Americans should support pro life campaigns.<\/p>\n

How well this will go down with Americans is anyone\u2019s guess, but the Pennsylvania Senator is unrepentant. He told a news programme: \u201cFor decades certain human beings were wrongly treated as property and denied liberty in America because they were not considered persons under the constitution.<\/p>\n

\u201cToday other human beings, the unborn of all races, are also wrongly treated as property and denied the right to life for the same reason; because they are not considered persons under the constitution.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am disappointed that President Obama, who rightfully fights for civil rights, refuses to recognize the civil rights of the unborn in this country.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The debate surrounding abortion took a new twist recently when a former Pennsylvania Senator mentioned the US President\u2019s race during an interview. He said: “The question is — and this is what Barack Obama didn’t want to answer — is that human life a person under the Constitution? And Barack Obama says no. “Well if […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":888008809,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[2254,86,464,465],"class_list":["post-696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion","tag-abortion","tag-anti-abortion-campaign","tag-race","tag-usa"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.medic8.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.medic8.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.medic8.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.medic8.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/888008809"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.medic8.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.medic8.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.medic8.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.medic8.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.medic8.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}