Melody Barnes: “It’s not our goal to reduce the number of abortions”

posted at 3:00 pm on May 23, 2009 by
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Wendy Wright’s eyewitness account:

Two days before President Obama’s commencement address at Notre Dame, I was at the White House for one of the meetings that he spoke about. About twenty of us with differing views on abortion were brought in to find “common ground.” But the most important point that came from the meeting was perhaps a slip from an Obama aide.

Not that anyone should be surprised, but it’s intriguing to get a glimpse behind the curtain now and then:

Melody [Barnes] testily interrupted to state that she had to correct me. “It is not our goal to reduce the number of abortions.”

The room was silent.

The goal, she insisted, is to “reduce the need for abortions.”

Or, if you looked at Obama’s actions, you could restate it this way: Our goal is to maximize the number of abortions worldwide.

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No sh!t? No sh!t.

andycanuck on May 23, 2009 at 9:26 PM

With the current environmental issues we face, this is about the only Obama policy that I can fully support.

thuja on May 24, 2009 at 6:49 AM

With the current environmental issues we face, this is about the only Obama policy that I can fully support.

Then top yourself (and any family you have) to save Gaia, thuja.

andycanuck on May 24, 2009 at 11:15 AM

Save the planet. Kill babies.

Nope, I just can’t see them using their true position on abortion anytime soon.

mchristian on May 24, 2009 at 5:39 PM