WaPo: "Obama's Abortion Extremism"

From the Washington Post opinion page:

Obama's record on abortion is extreme. He opposed the ban on partial-birth abortion -- a practice a fellow Democrat, the late Daniel Patrick Moynihan, once called "too close to infanticide." Obama strongly criticized the Supreme Court decision upholding the partial-birth ban. In the Illinois state Senate, he opposed a bill similar to the Born-Alive Infants Protection Act, which prevents the killing of infants mistakenly left alive by abortion. And now Obama has oddly claimed that he would not want his daughters to be "punished with a baby" because of a crisis pregnancy -- hardly a welcoming attitude toward new life.

As Hugh Hewitt notes, Obama sat on the board of directors of a group that advocated for the criminalization of protesting outside of abortion clinics.

It's a far cry from the "safe, legal, and rare" line of most Democrats to the "promised land" of the Obamassiah, where young women having babies is a punishment, partial birth abortions are legal, killing infants that survive abortion is allowed, and the free speech act of protesting outside of abortion clinics is prohibited.

That's not an act of transcending politics.

That's the advocacy of a far-left agenda that is alien to the vast majority of Americans, whether conservative or moderate; heck, it is not supported by many Democrats.