Obama and Pelosi and Evil Rhetoric

President Obama has overturned the Mexico City Policy that bans money to international groups that practice abortion as a method of family planning. Note: this isn't a support that abortion should remain legal, but that the US government should fund abortions. This is wrong. Obama says:

"We are reminded that this decision not only protects women's health and reproductive freedom but stands for a broader principle: that government should not intrude on our most private family matters. I remain committed to protecting a woman's right to choose," the statement said."

How convoluted! Obama isn't just guaranteeing the right, he's supporting it with money I send to the government. This is wrong. President Bush saw it a different way 9 years ago.

"It is my conviction that taxpayer funds should not be used to pay for abortions or advocate or actively promote abortion, either here or abroad," George W. Bush wrote in a memo to the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in 2001."

If Roe can't get overturned, that still doesn't mean I should pay for murder. Obama's pal on Capitol Hill, Nancy Pelosi, agrees with Obama's position. Some of the stimulus money will be used for family planning services that practice abortion. So, not only will the federal govt. be going further into debt, but apparently they will kill unborn infants in an effort to "reduce the costs in state government" (Please watch this Pelosi clip from This Week).

What you see Pelosi articulate there is the fundamental philosophy of utilitarianism developed from the 19th century- do what's best for the most amount of people. By the way, this philosophy is evil. ALL humans are made in the image of God (this includes the unborn, the poor, the rich, the born). Doing what's best for the most amount of people would have kept slavery in the US, would have sustained the holocaust, and would only care about the majority and never the downtrodden.

Utilitarianism is the central idea that Ebenezer Scrooge articulates to the philanthropists about the starving children in A Christmas Carol: "Well if they're going to die they'd better go ahead and do it and so decrease the surplus population." It's no surprise Scrooge "converts" to a redemptive worldview where everyone matters. But Pelosi, and seemingly Obama, articulate a different worldview, a worldview from the core of their base. Humans are reduced to "costs" where less of them means an ease on state budgets. Less humans will "stimulate" the economy. Folks, please understand that this is evil rhetoric.