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Abortion foes plan rally to greet Obama at Renaissance fund-raising event

By Jo Mannies, Beacon political reporter

Posted 11:29 am Mon., 3.8.10

Missouri Right to Life, the state's largest anti-abortion group, is organizing a protest rally for Wednesday outside the downtown Renaissance Grand Hotel, where President Barack Obama is headlining a U.S. Senate fundraising event.

Right to Life has asked participants to show up at 5 p.m., a little more than an hour before the fund-raising event begins.

Anti-abortion groups are opposed to the Senate-approved version of the Democratic health-care bill, which is seen as being weak on language barring any federal money for abortion. Many anti-abortion activists prefer the version that passed the U.S. House.

Backers of the Senate bill say its anti-abortion language is in line with federal law.

Abortion-rights advocates also prefer the Senate over the House version, when it comes to anti-abortion language, saying the House's wording is too strong and would make it impossible for women even to use their own money to purchase any kind of insurance with abortion coverage.

This latest dispute aside, abortion opponents also long opposed Obama because he supports abortion rights.

For the Wednesday anti-abortion rally downtown, participants are encouraged to make their own signs. Right to Life's suggestions include, "Abortion is Not Health Care," and "No Tax $$$ For Abortion."

Rally organizers made clear in their announcement that participants are to be on their good behavior: "It is of the utmost importance that we be courteous and respectful and obey all laws and requests from law enforcement."

Wednesday's fundraising money will benefit one of the president's strongest allies in the U.S. Senate -- Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo. -- and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, which is expected to use much of Wednesday's take to help its best-known Missouri contender for the U.S. Senate, Secretary of State Robin Carnahan.

Comments

#1 Nick Kasoff 2010-03-08 14:27

I'll betcha it won't be just right to life people coming out to greet the President.

#2 Ed Golterman 2010-03-09 10:30

A political fund raising event in the failed convention hotel?
Could there be any clearer statement as to the failure of politicians. Give half the money raised to UMB Bank, holding about $100 million in debt on the Renaissance Grand.

#3 Reese Forbes 2010-03-09 17:01

Jesus knew that a soul was only given to a live birth, and Jesus never said a word against abortion.

#4 Kay Flinn 2010-05-25 21:08

Here's a good one for all of you that 'get off' on the extermination of those pesky babies.

video.mail.ru/.../122.html

I don't think that #3 Reese Forbes really cares about what Jesus said. Different religions speak of their own "Jesus", not the one of the old KJV Bible, but only one matters. You aren't referring to him.

#5 Reese Forbes 2010-05-26 03:04

And Kay Flinn does not know what Jesus said if she is using the KJV (King James version) of the Bible.
Abortion was done before the time of Jesus, both mechanical and plant based chemical, but women often died. And they will again if the right to choice is not protected.
Medical procedures are always icky to watch, but they have nothing to do with the fact that a fetus does not have a soul.
Souls are the most powerful force in nature that God has devised, and He does not put two souls in the same body.

#6 Kay Fuller 2010-05-29 08:45

"Abortion was done before the time of Jesus..." Ya, people have been murdering each other, raping animals and molesting children since the beginning of time. I agree.

When someone murders someone, it's prescribed in the Bible that they die so it is good that those women died while murdering their children.

A child, what you call a fetus, doesn't have a soul? Prove it. How can you make such an asinine statement without any proof? Where is this source of information that states souls are the most powerful forces in nature? You obviously pulled it out of your rectum. Speaking of "icky' medical procedures.

#7 Kay Fuller 2010-05-29 08:46

As punishment on David, God killed his child which was still in the womb. And, David tells us that he's going to the same place that his child is going which is with God.

God declares to Jeremiah:
"Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations." Jeremiah 1:5

#8 Reese Forbes 2010-05-29 10:48

Kay - The soul is the great gift of God, the force that differentiates humans, or do think plants have souls.
Also stop being rude, or I will discontinue any discussion.
Although this passage does make the point that God was involved in the creation of this particular human being, it does not state that during the creation the fetus is indeed a person. According to Genesis, God was involved in the creation of every living thing, and yet that doesn't make every living thing a full human person. In other words, just because God was involved in its creation, it does not mean terminating it is the same as murder. It's only murder if a full human person is destroyed.
You quote Jeremiah out of context - he was a special case because decided he would be a prophet, and God gave him his soul after birth, maybe as late as when he gave him the power of speech.

#9 Reese Forbes 2010-05-29 10:50

I have never seen you out protesting war, or out trying to get healthcare reform passed so people won't die, or protesting the death penalty. Until you do, anything you say is meaningless

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