Presidental Anti-Life Record

Post-Election/Pre-inauguration (Nov/Dec 2008)

Nov. 5: Obama selects pro-abortion Rep. Rahm Emanuel as his White House Chief of Staff. Emanuel has a zero percent pro-life voting record, according to National Right to Life Committee (NRLC).

Nov. 19: Obama picks pro-abortion former Sen. Tom Daschle as his Health and Human Services Secretary. Daschel has a long pro-abortion voting record, according to NRLC.

Nov. 20: Obama chooses former NARAL Legal Director Dawn Johnsen to serve as a member of his Department of Justice Review Team. Later, he finalizes her appointment as the Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel in the Obama administration.

Nov. 24: Obama appoints Ellen Moran, the former director of the pro-abortion group Emily’s List as his White House Communications Director. Emily’s list only supported candidates who favored taxpayer-funded abortions and opposed a partial-birth abortion ban.

Nov. 24: Obama places former Emily’s List board member Melody Barnes as his Director of the Domestic Policy Council.

Nov. 30: Obama names pro-abortion Sen. Hillary Clinton as the Secretary of State. Clinton has an unblemished pro-abortion voting record and has supported making unlimited abortions an international right.

Dec. 10: Obama selects pro-abortion former Clinton administration official Jeanne Lambrew to become the Deputy Director of the White House Office of Health Reform. Planned Parenthood is “excited” about the selection.

Dec. 10: Obama transition team publishes memo from dozens of pro-abortion groups listing their laundry list of pro-abortions actions they want him to take.

Pro-abortion Presidential Record (2009)

Jan. 5: Picks pro-abortion Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine as Chairman of the Democratic Party.

Jan. 6: Obama chooses Thomas Perrelli, the lawyer who represented Terri Schiavo’s husband Michael in his efforts to kill his disabled wife, as the third highest attorney in the Justice Department.

Jan. 22: Releases statement restating support for Roe v. Wade decision that allowed virtually unlimited abortions and has resulted in at least 50 million abortions since 1973.

Jan. 23: Forces taxpayers to fund pro-abortion groups that either promote or perform abortions in other nations. Decision to overturn Mexico City Policy sends part of $457 million to pro-abortion organizations.

Jan. 26: Obama nominee for Deputy Secretary of State James B. Steinberg tells members of the senate that taxpayers should be forced to fund abortions. Nominee erroneously says limits on abortion funding are unconstitutional.

Jan. 29: President Obama nominates pro-abortion David Ogden as Deputy Attorney General.

Feb. 12: Obama nominates pro-abortion Elena Kagan to serve as Solicitor General.

Feb. 27: Starts the process of overturning pro-life conscience protections President Bush put in place to make sure medical staff and centers are not forced to do abortions.

Feb. 28: Barack Obama nominates Kathleen Sebelius to become Secretary of Health and Human Services.

March 5: The Obama administration shuts out pro-life groups from attending a White House sponsored health care summit. Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion business, made the invitation list as did other pro-abortion groups.

March 9: President Barack Obama signed an executive order forcing taxpayer funding of embryonic stem cell research.

March 10: Obama announces the creation of a new foreign policy position to focus on women’s issues. He names Melanne Verveer, an abortion advocate, to occupy the post.

March 10: Obama reverses an executive order to press for more research into ways of obtaining embryonic stem cells without harming human life. The order Obama scrapped would have promoted new forms of stem cell research.

March 11: Obama signed an executive order establishing a new agency within his administration known as the White House Council on Women and Girls. Obama’s director in the Office of Public Liaison at the White House, Tina Tchen, an abortion advocate, became its director.

March 11: Obama administration promotes an unlimited right to abortion at a United Nations meeting.

March 11: Obama administration officials deny negative effects of abortion at the United Nation’s meeting.

March 17: President Barack Obama makes his first judicial appointment and names pro-abortion federal judge David Hamilton to serve on the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals.

March 26: Announces $50 million for UNFPA, the UN population agency that has been criticized for promoting abortion and working closely with Chinese population control officials who used to force abortions and involuntary sterilizations.

This is only the beginning. You may want to save this record and future records we send to you to share with your “pro-life” friends who voted for and thus helped President Barack Obama to do all these anti-life activities. Maybe they will reconsider their support next time and be more diligent and careful voters in the 2010 elections. Please give them these documented dates and activities.