On Father’s Day in 2008 then-Senator Barack Obama gave a Father’s Day message at the Apostolic Church of God in Chicago. During his address, Obama stated, “We need fathers to recognize that responsibility doesn’t just end at conception.” This year, President Obama wrote an article in Parade Magazine about fatherhood. In the article, he made a remark very similar to the one above. He said, “That is why we need fathers to step up, to realize that their job does not end at conception….”
From Obama’s statements about fatherhood, it is apparent that he considers a man to be a father at conception and believes that men need to take responsibility as fathers. President Obama’s position leads to an important question: If fatherhood begins at conception, does that not mean that a daughter or a son must be created at conception? Tony Perkins has posed a great question to President Obama on this very issue in the following clip.
On his blog, Thomas Peters has called Tony Perkins’ ad “smart” because “…it challenges Obama and the pro-abortion movement to face the contradictory nature of the two things they are trying to say. The only conclusion that they can arrive at - but they avoid it at all costs - is that they honestly believe you can end human life when it is inconvenient. That's an inhuman solution.” Peters is right. If life begins at conception, if a daughter or a son comes into existence at conception, then abortion is the ending of that daughter or son’s life.
