Christian Coalition of America

During President Barack Obama's presidential campaign, he campaigned under the premise that abortion would be safe, legal and rare or words to that effect.  Unfortunately, the Democrats' proposed health care legislation will only increase abortions in America which are already being performed at the stunning rate of 1.2 million abortions each year.   Indeed, according to the Guttmacher Institute, there were 1.37 million abortions in America in 1996.  

In the Democrats' proposed health care legislation, abortion on demand would be mandated by the federal government in medical insurance policies.  There would be massive federal subsidies for abortions in America, even though a majority of Americans do not want their tax dollars to pay for abortions.  New abortion clinics would be mandated in the Democrats' bill.  Health care workers would be forced to participate in abortions or lose their jobs.    

Incredibly, the United Nations, instead of trying to broker peace agreements amongst the world's warring nations  --  or dismantling the nuclear weapons programs of rogue nations such as Iran and North Korea  --  is meddling once again in the affairs of the nuclear family and the Obama administration is trying to give them an assist.   

Pro-family forces in America are fighting back.  There is now a bill, authored by Congressman Pete Hoekstra, Republican from Michigan and co-sponsored by the Republican leader of the United States House of Representatives, John Boehner from Ohio, which will establish a Parents' Rights Constitutional Amendment (H. J. Res. 42.)  The entire leadership of the Republicans in the House of Representatives are also co-sponsors.  It now has 100 co-sponsors and gaining more every day as Members of the House find out about this commonsense pro-family legislation.  

Some unnamed Republican politicians are lambasting President Obama's Supreme Court nominee, Judge Sonia Sotomayor, in the media for her belonging to an all-female social organization called the Belizean Grove.  Undoubtedly, some of these same Republicans defended past Republican nominees for belonging to all-male social organizations such as the Bohemian Club, whose membership is made up of male movers and shakers in America.   

As "The Washington Times" reported yesterday, the New York-based Belizean Grove club "finds itself caught up in Supreme Court confirmation politics, with Republican lawmakers raising questions about the group's most famous member.  Federal appeals court Judge Sonia Sotomayor joined the group a year ago and went on her first trip last year to Peru. Her membership went largely unnoticed until she listed it on a Senate questionnaire in preparation for her July 13 confirmation hearings."

When it comes to the confirmation process for Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, Republicans have an opportunity to do something that would benefit both themselves and the nation.   That is, they should use the process as a chance to hold forth on the meaning of the Constitution and the proper role of the judiciary in our political system and society.

Three main areas are ripe with opportunity for Republicans if they have the nerve to play hardball.

First, the notion that "empathy" should play any role in American justice.

Obama previously stated that he wanted judges that had "empathy" when it came to how they made their decisions. But empathy is merely a euphemism for justifying politically liberal results.