At the new White House web page, the Obama administration has laid out its agenda for the coming years.
Being a man who loves the women in my life; my wife, daughters and mother, I was particularly interested in the section on Women. There are many wonderful initiatives that I will definitely support and I hope many get enacted quickly. For example, improving the nation’s health care system and fighting cancer has the potential to improve the quality of life for all of us.
However, the administration is also way off base on several initiatives.
- Stem Cell Research - The support of embryonic stem cell research is offering false hope at best and immoral at worst. The statement on the website says that the “embryos must be deemed to be in excess”. This statement assumes that some embryos are important and worthy of life and others are just extra that we do with as we wish. What is the criteria that would allow one to determine that an embryo is excess and can be used in medical experiments?
- A Women’s Right to Choose – The agenda on the website states that the President “respects those that disagree with him”. He should act on the feeling of respect and allow the individual states the opportunity to allow or regulate abortion within their borders. As a diverse nation, we are a society with varying degrees of morality, norms and values. The Roe v. Wade decision is bad law and should be overturned in his first term.
- Prevention First Act – The website states that this act “will also end insurance discrimination against contraception, improve awareness about emergency contraception, and provide compassionate assistance to rape victims.” That is a real feel good description! However, the act actually does a little more than that. It would prohibit health insurance plans from excluding coverage for birth control drugs and devices. It would force hospitals that receive any federal funds to give out the morning after pill to women who have been raped without telling them that it can sometimes cause an abortion.
As a country we can do better! We must do better than to tell our daughters, sisters, wives and mothers that the best America has to offer is the “right’ to murder their children. We need to protect and defend women; not further victimize them!