National Review Writer: Obama Likely Would Have Been Aborted, Had It Been Legal

[Amerigo Vespucci]

National Review Writer: Obama Likely Would Have Been Aborted, Had It Been Legal

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/17/national-review-writer-ob_n_135501.html



Ed Whelan baselessly speculates in the National Review that Barack Obama's deceased mother "very possibly" would have aborted her son had Roe v. Wade been law at the time:

Nearly 48 years ago, a young woman, not yet 18, became pregnant in her freshman year of college. Living in a time and place in which abortion was generally illegal, she proceeded to marry the father of her child and gave birth to a son. Perhaps she would have done so irrespective of the abortion laws at the time, even if, say, she lived in a legal culture that celebrated abortion as a fundamental right. Very possibly not. (I haven't found any statistics on the percentage of pregnant college freshmen who abort their pregnancies, but indirect indications suggest that it's very high.)

Barack Obama may actually believe, as he stated yesterday, that Roe v. Wade "was rightly decided." But it may be very lucky for him, as the son born of that woman, that it hadn't been decided a dozen or so years earlier.

[YOY]

1. How dare they?

How dare they assume that a woman with the choice will always chose abortion.

HOW DARE THEY!?!?!?

Oh wait. Written by some Republican with a penis.

[BrklynLiberal]

2. There is absolutely no basis whatsoever for that assumption!!!

I think that is a disgusting and probably racist conclusion for him to make.
:mad: :puke: :grr: :nuke:

[rurallib]

3. How low can they go?

Seems there is no bottom.

[YOY]

5. We knew this was coming.

It could even have been considered part of our strategy. Watching their hate take it's purest form.

[scheming daemons]

4. Based on the writer's logic, Bristol Palin will abort her fetus.....

After all, she lives in a "culture that celebrates abortion as a fundamental right".

[Love Bug]

6. I am speechless

That is so beyond bad taste. Why isn't adoption mentioned? That was what unwed mothers did in those days.

[blueclown]

7. Boy, these motherfuckers really are getting desperate. n/t

[KingFlorez]

8. This is just a sneaky way for the writer to say he wishes this is what happened

He's not fooling anyone.

[Brotherjohn]

9. They're still shouting "Kill him!", just retro-actively. (nt)

[twistedliberal]

21. Exactly! nt

[AllentownJake]

10. The fact is if Obama's mom wanted an abortion in 1961

She could have got one. She was from a middle class to upper middle class family. Her mother was a bank executive. There were doctors performing them illegally. The saftey of those procedurs however was in doubt depending on the doctor you went to and your social status.

The reason Row vs. Wade was decided the way it was, was because abortions were going on behind close doors and women were dying.

I don't know where the GOP thinks if they ban a procedure it is going to go away. The only that is going to go away is the saftey of the procedure being performed and the rich and upper middle class will always have access to a reputable doctor who will perform the procedure illegally. Its the lower middle class that will suffer and have an epidemic of women dying in back alleys.

[Essene]

11. just laugh it off, people... just laugh...

[Zuiderelle]

18. Why are you always suggesting people ignore things like this?

Racism? Just ignore it. Offensive remarks about Obama's mother, just laugh it off.

I don't get it. What's your agenda?

[Phredicles]

20. It's not funny.

[stuntcat]

12. how pathetic

People are losing it :banghead:

[vaberella]

13. "That woman..." Fuck them and lets move on.

There's nothing to do about these racists and idiots who have no idea who the person was but making baseless claims because they assume everyone is as racist as their ass. Let them wallow in their loss and when we own the government they can go to Peurto Rico and sulk in despair as they are treated as immigrants in a foreign land.

[yardwork]

14. This does nothing to help McCain. Everyone will be appalled.

This is in the worst possible taste, it's baseless speculation, and it's probably false. Plenty of college students got abortions in the 1960s. My parents knew some of them. It wasn't difficult to obtain an abortion. It was risky but lots of people did it anyway.

[myrna minx]

15. I think this has to be one of the most offensive things I've ever read.

How DARE he speculate this. I could SCREAM! :grr: This has to be one of the most vicious personal attacks introduced into an election. :puke:

[Cha]

16. Rec'd~ Let;'s get this idiot's words out there for all to see.

Fucker's taking liberties.

[Zuiderelle]

17. That is beyond the pale. You know who's "lucky?"

All of the women whose lives have been saved by abortion when they would have otherwise died. And all of the women who didn't have to die because they would have had to choose an illegal abortion.

What is WRONG with people like this, speculating on the CHOICE his mother would have made (and actually DID make, to have him)? What idiots.

Have some respect you fucking wingnut.

And may Obama's mother rest in peace. She and her parents raised an amazing son.

[ferrferr]

19. Ed Whelan, you sir are a douche nozzle. You don't even get to be the bag.