Actor Eduardo Verastegui wants to publicize Barack Obama's pro-abortion position

The rising star of the hit movie "Bella," Eduardo Verastegui, is launching a campaign to publicize the anti-family elements of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama's plans for the U.S., should he become president.

"Barack Obama does not share our traditional values of defending innocent life and the sanctity of marriage. If a president is not willing to defend the most innocent of his own country, the babies in their mothers' wombs, then my question is this, who is he willing to defend? That's what inspired me to put something together," Verastegui said.

As WND reported, a nurse who witnessed the death of a baby who survived an abortion but was abandoned by abortion center staff members charged Obama simply lied about the extent of his support for abortion during the presidential debates.

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Verastegui, 34, became famous singing in the popular Mexican band KAIRO and acting in Telenovelas (Latin-American soap operas). He was recently voted by People Magazine en Español as one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the world. His movie, "Bella," won the 2006 Toronto Film Festival People's Choice Award.

Now he's working with the Concerned Women for America Legislative Action Committee (CWALAC) on an "eye-opening" video called "Dura Realidad/Hard Truth," which can be seen online.

It includes graphic images of babies who lost their lives through abortion procedures.

And it is intended to shock, to spur action that would change the culture of accepting abortion as a medical procedure.

Verastegui called Obama's pursuit of "insane anti-parent laws" unacceptable.

"They allow child molesters to force young girls into secret abortions to cover up their crimes," he says on the video. "It is time to wake up."

Verastegui has been called the "Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, Mel Gibson of Latin America." The political action committee is collecting donations to advertise and provide the video, with estimates that up to 500 people will see the commentary for a donation of $25.

One of the most famous Latin stars in the Americas, Verastegui already quietly has been counseling women before they enter abortion clinics by showing the video. Numerous women have decided not to abort their child after watching it.

"Thank goodness Eduardo has the character and courage to go public with this must-see video. Americans need to know the truth about Barack Obama. And with Eduardo as the host, these online videos will spread like wildfire," said Wendy Wright, president of the CWALAC.

Obama has sought to cast his abortion voting record as moderate, but as WND has reported, it sometimes has gone beyond what even the National Abortion Rights Action League has desired.

WND earlier reported on transcripts of Obama's statements during his tenure in the Illinois state legislature revealing his support for what amounts to infanticide.

Arguing against the Illinois Born Alive Infant Protection Act in 2002, after even Planned Parenthood had dropped its opposition, Obama expressed concern that the bill might burden abortionists, reported blogger Erick Erickson on RedState.com.

Erikson, noting Obama was the only lawmaker to speak out against the protective measure, summarized the senator's concern this way: "Let's trust the guy who just botched the abortion to determine whether or not he actually did botch the abortion."

According to the transcript, Obama said:

As I understand it, this puts the burden on the attending physician who has determined, since they were performing this procedure, that, in fact, this is a nonviable fetus; that if that fetus, or child – however way you want to describe it – is now outside the mother's womb and the doctor continues to think that it's nonviable but there's, let's say, movement or some indication that, in fact, they're not just coming out limp and dead, that, in fact, they would then have to call a second physician to monitor and check off and make sure that this is not a live child that could be saved.

WND also reported an ad by the Obama campaign that attacked an abortion survivor.

Obama's commercial took shots at the GOP campaign, calling McCain's ads "the sleaziest ever, truly vile." But when the screen showed clips of abortion survivor Gianna Jessen and the ad she made asking Obama to reverse his stance on born alive infant protection legislation, the Obama ad calls Jessen's appeal "a despicable lie."

The attack on Jessen has angered pro-life advocates.

"It is despicable, repulsive and beneath contempt that Barack Obama would attack Gianna Jessen," said Stanek in a statement on Jessen's website. "She is a courageous abortion survivor and living miracle who would not be with us today if Obama's policies had been in place when she was born."

Jessen herself released a statement saying, "Mr. Obama is clearly blinded by political ambition given his attack on me this week. All I asked of him was to do the right thing: support medical care and protection for babies who survive abortion – as I did."

 

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