OBAMA'S 10 REASONS FOR SUPPORTING INFANTICIDE
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Obama's 10 reasons for supporting infanticide
By Jill Stanek
World Net Daily
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=59702#
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
I was intimately involved in the five-year process to pass
the Illinois Born Alive Infant Protection Act, testifying
before committees twice that then-state Sen. Barack Obama
sat on.
Following are 10 excuses Obama has given through the years
for voting "present" and "no" on the Illinois Born Alive
Infant Protection Act, or BAIPA.
10. Babies who survive abortions are not protected by the
Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution.
Obama, the sole opponent ever to speak against BAIPA,
stated on the Illinois Senate floor on March 30, 2001:
I just want to suggest ... that this is probably not
going to survive constitutional scrutiny.
Number one, whenever we define a previable fetus as a
person that is protected by the equal protection clause
or the other elements in the Constitution, what we're
really saying is, in fact, that they are persons that
are entitled to the kinds of protections that would be
provided to a -- child, a 9-month-old -- child that was
delivered to term. ...
I mean, it -- it would essentially bar abortions,
because the equal protection clause does not allow
somebody to kill a child, and if this is a child, then
this would be an anti-abortion statute. For that
purpose, I think it would probably be found
unconstitutional.
9. A ban to stop aborted babies from being shelved to die
would be burdensome to mothers.
Before voting "no" for a second time in the Senate
Judiciary Committee on March 5, 2002, Obama stated:
What we are doing here is to create one more burden on
women, and I can't support that.
8. Aborting babies alive and letting them die is a doctor's
prerogative.
An Obama spokesman told the Chicago Tribune in August 2004
that Obama voted against BAIPA because it included
provisions that "would have taken away from doctors their
professional judgment when a fetus is viable."
7. Anyway, doctors don't do that.
Obama told the Chicago Sun-Times in October 2004 he opposed
BAIPA because "physicians are already required to use life-
saving measures when fetuses are born alive during
abortions."
6. Obama apparently read medical charts and saw no proof.
Also, during a speech at Benedictine University in October
2004, Obama said "there was no documentation that hospitals
were actually doing what was alleged in testimony presented
before him in committee," according to the Illinois Leader.
5. Aborting babies alive and letting them die is a
religious issue.
During his U.S. Senate contest against Obama, Alan Keyes
famously said:
Christ would not stand idly by while an infant child in
that situation died. ... Christ would not vote for
Barack Obama, because Barack Obama has voted to behave
in a way that it is inconceivable for Christ to have
behaved.
Obama has always mischaracterized Keyes' condemnation as a
blanket statement against Obama's pro-abortion position,
which is untrue. Keyes was pointedly discussing
infanticide.
Nevertheless, induced labor abortion, the procedure that
sometimes results in babies being aborted alive, must be
included as one Obama condones. Obama responded first to
Keyes as he recounted in a July 10, 2006, USA Today op ed:
... [W]e live in a pluralistic society, and ... I can't
impose my religious views on another.
4. Aborting babies alive and letting them die violates no
universal principle.
In that USA Today piece, Obama said he reflected on that
first answer, decided it was a "typically liberal
response," and revised it:
But my opponent's accusations nagged at me. ... If I am
opposed to abortion for religious reasons but seek to
pass a law banning the practice, I cannot simply point
to the teachings of my church. I have to explain why
abortion violates some principle that is accessible to
people of all faiths, including those with no faith at
all.
3. Introducing legislation to stop live aborted babies from
being shelved to die was a political maneuver.
During the Benedictine University speech, Obama said, "The
bill was unnecessary in Illinois and was introduced for
political reasons," according to the Illinois Leader.
2. Sinking Born Alive was about outmaneuvering that
political maneuver.
Obama has this quote on his website:
Pam Sutherland ... of ... Illinois Planned Parenthood
... told ABC News, "We worked with him specifically on
his strategy. The Republicans were in control of the
Illinois Senate at the time. They loved to hold votes on
'partial birth' and 'born alive.' They put these bills
out all the time ... because they wanted to pigeonhole
Democrats. ..."
And the No. 1 reason Obama voted against the Born Alive
Infant Protection Act was:
1. Introducing Born Alive was a ploy to overturn Roe v.
Wade.
During a debate against Keyes in October 2004, Obama
stated:
Now, the bill that was put forward was essentially a way
of getting around Roe vs. Wade. ... At the federal
level, there was a similar bill that passed because it
had an amendment saying this does not encroach on Roe
vs. Wade. I would have voted for that bill.
This was a lie on two points.
First, there was no such amendment.
Second, both definitions of "born alive" were always
identical. The concluding paragraph changed in the federal
version. But Obama, as chairman of the committee that
vetted Illinois' version in 2003, refused to allow an
amendment rendering both concluding paragraphs identical.
He also refused to call the bill and killed it.
The federal paragraph (c) actually weakened the pro-
abortion position by opening the possibility of giving
legal status to preborn children, the opposite of Obama's
contention:
Illinois' paragraph (c): A live child born as a result
of an abortion shall be fully recognized as a human
person and accorded immediate protection under the law.
Federal paragraph (c): Nothing in this section shall be
construed to affirm, deny, expand, or contract any legal
status or legal right applicable to any member of the
species homo sapiens at any point prior to being "born
alive" as defined in this section.
At any rate, so what if stopping hospitals and abortion
clinics from aborting babies alive and leaving them to die
did theoretically "encroach on Roe v. Wade"?
Obama was admitting he supported infanticide if that were true.
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Jill Stanek fought to stop "live-birth abortion" after
witnessing one as a registered nurse at Christ Hospital in
Oak Lawn, Ill. In 2002, President Bush asked Jill to attend
his signing of the Born Alive Infants Protection Act. In
January 2003, World Magazine named Jill one of the 30 most
prominent pro-life leaders of the past 30 years. To learn
more, visit Jill's blog, Pro-life Pulse.
http://www.jillstanek.com/
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=59702#
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Posted on 01/17/2008 9:20:21 PM PST by Coleus
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Thank the Lord someone brought it up. He was adamant re:
partian birth abortion.
Posted on 01/17/2008 9:23:00 PM PST by AliVeritas
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Obama is a genuine "piece of work"
The Obama File Dont leave Home without it.
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