Actually, though the country has taken a step toward the end of racism, because it has elected Obama, it has taken two steps back when it comes to another form of human rights: infanticide.

    Obama has promised Planned Parenthood to sign the most radical abortion legislation in U.S. history, the "Freedom of Choice Act," or FOCA (see www.jillstanek.com for details).

     FOCA will:

- invalidate laws to protect a woman from unsafe abortion clinics and to ensure that she is informed about abortion.

- require taxpayers to pay for abortions.

- require states to allow "partial-birth" and other late-term abortions.

- require states to allow abortions by non-physicians.

- bar laws protecting a right of conscientious objection to abortion, removing language previously approved by the AMA that no "physician, hospital, nor hospital personnel" shall be required to violate "personally-held moral principles."

- will deny parents an opportunity to be involved in their minor daughter's abortion decision.

     So while many citizens, white, black, and everything in between, rejoice at Obama's step toward equality for all, thousands, hundreds of thousands of future U.S. citizens have their simple, legal right to live yanked from their grasp because Obama deems his, and our, lives valuable, but those in the womb, living human beings, not (see post "Dear Barack:..."; 12/20/08).

    So, yes, a black man wins the office, America cheers; this same man supports, and further broadens, the procedures in which a doctor "empties the contents of a woman's womb," America feigns ignorance. Obama's inaugaration a step towards equality for all mankind? I think not; it was merely an exchange of racial equality for thousands and thousands of human beings' lives, lives that the supposed-"Equality-for All!"-Obama has sent to the grave.