Fight of Their Lives: What Anti-Abortion Activists can Expect from an Obama Administration (Politics) (Barack Obama‪)‬

ABORTION NEVER BECAME a major issue in the 2008 campaign. But Barack Obama's promise of change extends to the modest legal protections pro-lifers have managed to enact on behalf of the unborn. He has pledged to eliminate them. By next spring, the incoming administration and pro-life activists will be locked in a series of battles over healthcare mandates, federal funding of abortion, and the composition of delegations to UN conferences. Pro-lifers believe that everything they have worked for since Roe is at risk. In a speech at Catholic University, Cardinal Francis Stafford said that Obama's "extremist anti-life platform ... is aggressive, disruptive and apocalyptic." He summed up the dark mood of his fellow activists: "On November 4, 2008, America suffered a cultural earthquake."