Obama Opposes Waterboarding While Supporting Infanticide

One thing stuck out to me in President Obama’s 100th day press conference. That is his moral certainty when it comes to waterboarding compared to his position on abortion. In response to a question about waterboarding Obama said, “Waterboarding violates our ideals and our values.” In response to a question about abortion he said, “The reason I'm pro-choice is because I don't think women take that — that position casually. I think that they struggle with these decisions each and every day. And I think they are in a better position to make these decisions ultimately than members of Congress or a president of the United States.” As I have written about many times before, Obama goes so far as to believe that the mother has the right to kill premature babies after the baby is born. Michael Goldfarb from the Weekly Standard suggests that Obama should look at waterboarding like he does at abortion, that it should be safe, legal, and rare. There is no moral comparison between waterboarding and infanticide, infanticide is clearly worse. Obama considers waterboarding torture and strongly condemns it. But he does believe that slowly killing a premature baby by refusing to offer medical care for the baby simply because the mother wished that it didn’t exist should be the choice of the mother. A nurse testified before Obama when he was in the Illinois senate of a baby with Down Syndrome who was refused medical care, the baby took forty-five minutes to die by suffocation because the baby’s lungs were not yet fully developed. Apparently, that’s not torture.

What needs to be stopped is waterboarding. This despite the fact that Khalid Sheik Mohammad taunted interrogators who asked him about future planned attacks against the United States. All he would say is, “Soon, you will know.” After he was waterboarded he informed the CIA of a “Second Wave” plot “to crash a hijacked airliner into a building in Los Angeles.” Because of this information the United States was able to stop this attack. In the press conference Obama spoke of his decision to end waterboarding, “I am absolutely convinced it was the right thing to do, not because there might not have been information that was yielded by these various detainees who were subjected to this treatment, but because we could have gotten this information in other ways, in ways that were consistent with our values, in ways that were consistent with who we are.” We could have gotten this information in other ways President Obama? Really? What ways? Nobody knows of these mysterious ways in which President Obama is willing to gamble the lives of thousands of American citizens because everybody knows it’s more moral to let innocent people die than to waterboard a terrorist. Mary Katherine Ham of the Weekly Standard has some information about the location of the guidebooks of these other ways. Apparently they “are hidden in the sugarplum grove at the foot of the gumdrop tree in the Mythical Forest of Prosperity from which Obama's domestic plans come.”

To recap: Waterboarding mass murderers to save thousands of innocent lives is morally wrong. Slowly killing premature babies by suffocation is the right of every mother. It's good to see that President Obama is keeping his moral clarity.