Record on Abortion: John McCain

Supports overturning Roe v. Wade. Voted in favor of the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act. Voted in favor of the Unborn Victims of Violence Act (states that an unborn child killed or injured in a violent federal crime is a second victim, and the perpetrator can be charged with a second offense). Opposes the "Freedom of Choice Act." Voted in favor of a bill that requires an abortionist to contact the parents before performing an abortion on a minor from another state.

Record on Abortion: Barack Obama

Co-sponsor of "Freedom of Choice Act" (nullifies all federal and state limitations on abortion, including what is currently permitted by the Supreme Court). Supports the legalization of partial birth abortions. Voted against an amendment that would permit states to give federally subsidized healthcare insurance for an unborn child. As a member of the Illinois State Senate, he opposed the "Born-Alive Infants Protection Act" (would allow for the protection for babies who survived abortions, as well as for babies who are born prematurely). Voted against a bill that requires an abortionist to contact the parents before performing an abortion on a minor from another state.

"If" (Rudyard Kipling)

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or, being hated, don't give way to hating, A
nd yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with triumph and disaster
And treat those two imposters just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with wornout tools;

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on";

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch;
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run -
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man my son!