Both Obama and Biden positions on Abortion unreasonable

AP has a great summary of Obama and Biden's positions on Abortion:

Obama:

Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama acknowledged Sunday that he was probably too flip when he said it was "above my pay grade" to answer a question about when is a baby entitled to human rights.

Obama gave his answer last month at a nationally televised religious forum sponsored by minister Rick Warren at his megachurch in Orange County, Calif.

Asked on Sunday whether the "above my pay grade" answer was too flip, Obama said: "Probably. ...What I intended to say is that, as a Christian, I have a lot of humility about understanding when does the soul enter into ... It's a pretty tough question.

"And so, all I meant to communicate was that I don't presume to be able to answer these kinds of theological questions," he said in an interview broadcast Sunday on ABC's "This Week."

I find this position completely unreasonable.  Although now agreeing that "above my pay grade" was too flip, Obama essentially takes the same position all over again.  His answer is typical of the religious left who in many respects have allowed the "immensity of God swallow up his knowability".  They claim our human frailties make it impossible for us to decide issues like this with great certainty.  A viewpoint like this one applied universally is devastating right and wrong in our culture.

Biden:

A Roman Catholic, Biden said he accepts his church's teachings that life begins at conception, but that the issue is personal for him. He said it wouldn't be right to impose his views on others who are just as religious as he is.

"I'm prepared as a matter of faith to accept that life begins at the moment of conception. But that is my judgment," Biden said on NBC's "Meet the Press.""For me to impose that judgment on everyone else who is equally and maybe even more devout than I am seems to me is inappropriate in a pluralistic society."

Biden's position is even more unreasonable.  If, as Biden claims, he believes that life begins as conception he must also believe that ending that life is murder.  So how is his moral compass so messed up that he could maintain that this can be a "private" matter?  By defenition, one person ending the life of another is no personal matter. 

Mr. Biden, why then is it no longer a personal matter after the child emerges from the whom?  According to Biden's own admission, there is no substantive moral difference between the life or the conceived child and the life of a child who is fully born.

Comments

[J.D.]

Surprisingly good article!