Courtesy of HumanEvents.org and Pat Buchanan, a simple look at how it’s impossible to be a Catholic communicant and an Obama supporter at the same time.  Take a single issue: the survival of babies who are victims of abortion.

Thrice in the Illinois legislature, Obama helped block a bill that was designed solely to protect the life of infants already born, and outside the womb, who had miraculously survived the attempt to kill them during an abortion. Thrice, Obama voted to let doctors and nurses allow these tiny human beings die of neglect and be tossed out with the medical waste.

How can a man who purports to be a Christian justify this?

If, as its advocates contend, abortion has to remain legal to protect the life and health, mental and physical, of the mother, how is a mother’s life or health in the least threatened by a baby no longer inside her — but lying on a table or in a pan fighting for life and breath?

How is it essential for the life or health of a woman that her baby, who somehow survived the horrible ordeal of abortion, be left to die or put to death? Yet, that is what Obama voted for, thrice, in the Illinois Senate.

When a bill almost identical to the one Barack fought in Illinois, the Born Alive Infants Protection Act, came to the floor of the U.S. Senate in 2001, the vote was 98 to 0 in favor. Barbara Boxer, the most pro-abortion member of the Senate before Barack came, spoke out on its behalf:

“Of course, we believe everyone should deserve the protection of this bill. … Who could be more vulnerable than a newborn baby? So, of course, we agree with that. … We join with an ‘aye’ vote on this. I hope it will, in fact, be unanimous.”

Obama says he opposed the Born Alive Infants Protection Act because he feared it might imperil Roe v. Wade. But if Roe v. Wade did allow infanticide or murder, which is what letting a tiny baby die of neglect or killing it outright amounts to, why would he not want that court decision reviewed and amended to outlaw infanticide?

He’s an abortion absolutist – if an abortion is attempted, then it must be succesful even if it means killing a baby born alive.  How dark must a person’s heart be that they they put some mythical “right” to abortion above the right to the life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness of a newly-born baby.  Up to now, only the far left philosophical Peter Singer-esque nutjobs have advocated for parents having some period after birth (up to 6 months) during which they can choose to kill their baby…no one anywhere near the mainstream has advocated this.  Perhaps that shows the Obamessiah is not anywhere near the mainstream.

Buchanan closes his column with a question:

And which Catholic priests and prelates will it be who give invocations at Obama rallies, even as Mother Church fights to save the lives of unborn children whom Obama believes have no right to life and no rights at all?

And of course, tragically, the answer to this question is Father Michael Pfleger.