A new Web site claims that, if elected president, Sen. Barack Obama would "drastically reduce abortion" and "promote life with dignity for all from the beginning of life to the end."
Prolifeproobama.com is the brainchild of the Matthew 25 Network — the same group that created a radio ad this summer attacking Dr. James Dobson.
"The Matthew 25 Web page is a desperate attempt to attract pro-life Christian voters to Obama by misrepresenting and redefining the pro-life cause," said Carrie Gordon Earll, senior bioethics analyst at Focus on the Family Action. "It's an insult and affront to every true pro-lifer in the country."
The site claims Obama will reduce abortion by "giving women and families the support and the tools they need to choose life."
Perhaps Obama should consider supporting Focus on the Family's Option Ultrasound Program, which has issued 405 grants for ultrasound machines and sonography training since 2004. Tens of thousands of preborn babies have been saved, thanks to the millions of dollars that are donated to Focus each year for pro-life efforts.
Obama has received a 100 percent pro-abortion rating from Planned Parenthood and NARAL Pro-Choice America. His rating from the National Right to Life Committee? Zero.
The Matthew 25 Network, which claims to promote "life with dignity," says an Obama administration would do more than a McCain administration "for the cause of life."
Earll said she isn't buying it.
"The meaning of pro-life is to protect human life from the single-cell stage to natural death," she said. "That means opposing public policies that target and destroy innocent human life. From what I can see, not one word of this Web site addresses banning abortion, or even restricting it.
"If Obama wants to reduce abortion, he should support pro-life measures like parental involvement, informed consent and public-funding restrictions. Obama's words and actions do not conform to being pro-life."
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Learn more about Option Ultrasound.
In the Illinois Senate, Barack Obama blocked legislation to protect babies who survive abortion.
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