An Obama administration will do more than a McCain administration for the cause of life, by drastically reducing abortions through giving women and families the support and the tools they need to choose life. Barack Obama will continue to strive to make a life with dignity for all from the beginning to the end of life possible - by making sure health care is affordable, combating poverty, providing good paying jobs, and ensuring security in life's final years.
Support for Women and Families
Sen. Obama supports paid maternity leave to make sure families won't lose their employment and much needed income from having a child.
Sen. Obama supports legislation to allow 'sick-leave' to also cover one's sick children.
Expand programs like the successful Nurse-Family Partnership to all low-income, first-time mothers. The Nurse-Family Partnership provides home visits by trained registered nurses to low-income expectant mothers and their families.
Sen. Obama has committed to making investment in affordable daycare and supports a refundable Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit would allow families to receive a 50 percent credit on up to $3,000 of childcare.
Sen. Obama will cut taxes for 95 percent of all working families and will cut middle class taxes three times as much as Sen. McCain.
Fatherhood and Responsibility
Obama is a cosponsor of the Responsible Fatherhood and Healthy Families Act, which encourages personal responsibility and includes provisions for domestic violence prevention and improved collection and distribution of child support.
Listen to Senator Obama's groundbreaking Father's Day speech on fatherhood and personal responsibility here.
Health Care
Obama is committed to signing health legislation by the end of his first term in office that will guarantee affordable healthcare for every American.
Under the Obama health plan, no one would be denied health care coverage because of a pre-existing condition. He would change the bizarre practice of pregnancy being listed in many health coverage plans as a "pre-existing condition."
Sen. Obama is a strong advocate for the expansion of the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) to provide health care to children in low-income families.
Tackling Poverty
Obama will expand the Earned Income Tax Credit to help lift many families out of poverty. His plan will increase the number of working parents eligible for EITC benefits, increase the benefit available to parents who support their children through child support payments, and reduce the EITC marriage penalty.
Obama supports Catholic Charities USA's stated goal to cut domestic poverty in half in ten years.
Obama will make sure that full-time workers can earn a wage that allows them to raise their families and live with dignity. Obama will raise the minimum wage to $9.50 an hour by 2011 and index it to inflation.
Senator Obama supports the expansion of the leading program that provides nutritional support for low-income pregnant women and their infants and children (WIC).
Supporting Adoption
Sen. Obama has been a proponent of increased support for adoption agencies and an expanded adoption tax credit.
Late-Term Abortion
Obama opposes late term abortions, with a clear exception for the mother's life and health:
"I have repeatedly said that I think it's entirely appropriate for states to restrict or even prohibit late-term abortions as long as there is a strict, well-defined exception for the health of the mother. Now, I don't think that 'mental distress' qualifies as the health of the mother. I think it has to be a serious physical issue that arises in pregnancy, where there are real, significant problems to the mother carrying that child to term."
- Senator Obama in an interview with Relevant magazine, July 1, 2008
Sen. McCain has voted against measures that would support pregnant women and families that need it most:
McCain voted against extending Medicaid coverage to pregnant women and infants up to one year of age with incomes below the Federal poverty line.
Senator McCain voted twice against the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), one of the largest support programs for pregnant women and poor children, which would have provided health care to an additional 3.2 million children and continuing coverage for the more than 6 million children already dependent on the care.
Senator McCain has opposed increases in funding to nutritional support program for pregnant women and infants (WIC) that has proven to be one of the most effective programs in supporting women to carry their pregnancies to term.
McCain voted against increased funding for child care and does not have a plan to help families make child care affordable.
Sen. McCain has voted to increase taxes on local small business nurseries and childcare providers.
He has voted against minimum wage increases at least 19 times and voted to completely repe
Good grief, edit your copy/paste once in a while. Are you working for Doug Kmiec?
I am a Catholic. Early last summer I e-mailed Sen. Obama's campaign. I asked them to please give me a solid reason that a pro-life Catholic could in good conscience vote for him.
I got a lengthy reply that used a lot of great words and said exactly nothing of substance.
Ever heard of the Family and Medical Leave Act? FMLA has been in place since 1993. Sick leave has been extended to care for one's children for quite a while, and taking a maternity leave without fear of losing one's job has, too.
This is all smokescreen. These great-sounding words stack up to exactly nothing when weighed against Sen. Obama's statement to a Planned Parenthood meeting last summer in which he stated the FIRST act of his presidency, should he be elected, would be to sign into law the "Freedom of Choice Act" -- which would abolish ALL restrictions and limitations on obtaining an abortion (ALL -- including parental notification for minors), whether at the State or Federal level.
If that's his Numero Uno priority, fine. I have a #1 priority of my own, as a faithful Catholic. And I am in much greater agreement with Abp. Charles Chaput than our thoroughly sold-out brother Kmiec.
My pro-life vote doesn't mean I think McCain would "do something" as in single-handedly revoke Roe v Wade. It does mean that I see through the smoke and mirrors of the party which has stated it is not only in support of abortion at any time for any reason, but also "regardless of ability to pay". Meaning my tax money gets to pay for abortions, according to them.
I'll stop being a much-derided "single issue Catholic voter" when the Democrats modify their position on abortion. Bottom line.
This Catholic will NOT vote for Obama. Not only because he does not appose partial birth abortion but because he will cause a depression for this country giving out handouts does not work.
We Catholics fully support charity but we also believe in educating people to take care of themselves.
Give a man a fish and feed him for a day, Teach a man to fish and feed him for a life time!
Only the Pelosi type Catholics, who ignore the 800 lb gorilla of abortion in the room.
No true Christian could support abortion.
Pelosi tried to say the Catholic church had no clear position on it. Denial or stupidity?
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I'm true & pro-life proud Catholic and voting for Obama.
Strict Catholics will more then like vote McCain.
Loose Catholics will vote Obama
I'm Catholic voting McCain...
Some will vote for Obama. My guess is that the majority of Catholic voters will go for McCain.
My completely Catholic, in their 80's, grandparents voted for Obama. I've never been so proud.
Im catholic and voting for Obama.
Catholic Voting for Obama
i'm catholic and voting for john mccain
I hope you don't really believe everything that obama has said...he's a smart guy, but that doesn't mean he's going to do everything he says. Take a close look at obama and look at his policies...you have to wonder, does that really sound like it's coming from him, or the advisors and teams behind him? Someone can say something when they are running for president, it doesn't mean they are going to do it. I would go with the most stable choice for the economy, mccain, because he has the most experience, as well as being much smarter and a far more proficient speaker than obama.
Catholics are pro-life. Pro-life means against abortion, regardless of the reason for the abortion.
There are varying degrees of orthodoxy in the Catholic faith, some are more liberal than others.
Those Catholics who are more liberal than others may be voting for Obama.
Those Catholics who are more conservative and more adherent to the teachings of their faith will not vote for Obama because he has a 100% rating from NARAL and from Planned Parenthood - both of which are abortion and contraceptive providing organizations that are in direct conflict with the teachings of Catholicism.
It depends on the person and their degree of orthodoxy/conservativism.
Catholic's who are right to life will vote for McCain. The catholic church does not believe in abortion. For the catholic who call themselves catholics, but never go to church those are the ones who will probably vote for Obama.
If you are a Catholic who only cares about the programs you might qualify for sure, it sounds like you might vote for Obama. If you are a true Catholic, and can put money issues aside you couldn't possibly vote for anyone who is pro-choice. You state you are so worried about the childrens' health care issues, and pregnant women but who protects the unborn children if not Catholics
You should change your name from "Mr. Know it all" to "Mr. Cut and Paste it all".
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