So much for pro-life Democrats

Yesterday, just a few days after Barack Obama restarted the Culture War -- contrary to his campaign promises not to do so -- by revoking President Ronald Reagan's Mexico City Policy, Senate pro-life Republicans tried to reinstate Reagan's policy to no avail.

Senator Mel Martinez, Republican from Florida, authored the amendment to reinstate the Mexico City Policy which would ensure groups such as Planned Parenthood International which do abortions in countries all across the world, would not receive American taxpayers' dollars. The Martinez Amendment failed by a margin of 60-37 with the usual 4 liberal Republicans voting against the amendment (Senators Susan Collins (Maine); Lisa Murkowski (Alaska); Olympia Snowe (Maine) and Arlen Specter (Pennsylvania.)

However, what was astounding is that only one Democrat Senator out of 57 Democrats voting -- Ted Kennedy did not vote -- voted to keep more unborn children alive by voting for the Martinez Amendment. And that was the consistently pro-life and mostly conservative Senator Ben Nelson from Nebraska. How about that for a radically pro-abortion party!

The other shocking event occurred last week when Barack Obama fooled the pro-life voters -- including many of the majority of Catholics; some 54% of Catholics -- who voted for him last November, by abolishing the Reagan Mexico City Policy.

Likewise, more than a few of the Democrat Senators who voted against Reagan's Mexico City Policy yesterday pretended to be at least luke-warm pro-lifers back in their states during campaigns and other appearances, many of whom represent conservative states such as Indiana (Senator Evan Bayh); Louisiana (Senator Mary Landrieu); Florida (Senator Bill Nelson); South Dakota (Tim Johnson); Arkansas (Mary Pryor): and the worst of all of these Democrats voting in the negative on the Martinez Amendment: Senator Bob Casey, Jr. whose father was a great pro-life Democrat Governor of Pennsylvania.

The Culture War, rejuvenated by Barack Obama's shocking pandering to the radical pro-abortion business and lobby, will now be accelerated as the pro-life movement has been reinvigorated as never before. Perhaps many of the pro-life voters who cast their ballots for him last November and who were deceived by Obama will see the error of their ways and will return to protecting the lives of our most innocent citizens: the unborn.

So much for pro-life Democrats | Christian Coalition of America.