Does Barack Obama Support Infanticide?
STEVEN MOSHER AND COLIN MASON “I think that whether you’re looking at it from a theological perspective or a scientific perspective, answering that question with specificity is above my pay grade.” This was Barack Obama’s answer, delivered with much hemming and hawing, to the following question posed to him by Pastor Rick Warren at the Saddleback Forum: “When do babies get human rights?” Obama’s flippant answer might have elicited chuckles at a Harvard symposium, but the evangelicals in the Saddleback audience were not amused. They knew that Pastor Warren was asking a serious question that deserved a serious answer. They also knew that a man who would sit in the Oval Office is supposed to be able to answer such queries. Previous presidents have understood that no question was above their pay grade. That’s why Harry Truman, for instance, kept a plaque on his desk that read: “The Buck Stops Here.” One imagines that the plaque on Obama’s desk, if he gets that far, will read something like
