Obama: Understanding Biology 101 is Above My Pay Grade August 17 2008
Via HotAir, from last night’s Saddleback Civil Forum on the Presidency:
Rick Warren: Now, let’s deal with abortion. 40 million abortions since Roe v. Wade. you know, as a pastor I have to deal with this all of the time. All of the pain and all of the conflicts. I know this is a very complex issue. 40 million abortions. At what point does a baby get human rights in your view?
Barack Obama: Well, I think that whether you are looking at it from a theological perspective or a scientific perspective, answering that question with specificity, you know, is above my pay grade.
So Obama claims that he cannot answer the question, neither from a theological perspective nor a scientific perspective. Interesting.
Scientifically speaking, any high school student who has taken Biology 101 should know when human life begins. About a hundred and fifty years ago, science proved that human life begins at the point of conception. Prior to the discovery of the male and female reproductive haploid cells, we didn’t know exactly when human life began. Now we do, and we’ve known since over a century before Roe v. Wade was decided. It is ludicrous that pro-abortion fanatics like Obama continue to claim ignorance.
And the theology is based on the science, just as it has always been. Dishonest pro-abortion Catholics continue to cite St. Thomas Aquinas’ ideas about the “ensoulment” of the fetus. What they intentionally fail to acknowledge is that Aquinas’ ideas were based on the science of his time, and that Aquinas died over 300 years before the invention of the microscope. Basing your position on abortion on the writings of Aquinas would be like NASA planning space missions using Aristotle’s theory of geocentrism.
However, Obama could have told us about his own theology. That is, the theology of the United Church of Christ, which he attended for 20 years. The UCC is a pro-abortion organization which makes the same arguments as Planned Parenthood and NARAL when it comes to abortion – there are too many people in the world so we need to abort some babies, women should have a right to ‘reproductive freedom’, etc. Note that such theology has absolutely nothing to do with Jesus or the Gospels, and everything to do with misguided political points of view and a complete lack of respect for innocent human lives.
How anyone who calls himself “Christian” can still be considering voting for Obama is beyond me. Unless, of course, they think that “voting Democrat” or “voting black” is somehow more important than being a Christian.
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