More on Obama's abortion views
Posted by Gary on August 14, 2008
The Jerusalem Post has a story on Barack Obama’s abortion views entitled, Obama is no moderate: His radical position on ‘abortion’ after birth. From the article:
Earlier this decade, such living, breathing, babies who survived labor were "shelved" – left to die and disposed of with other medical waste, or were "aborted" – killed outside the womb. The practice was ultimately banned by unanimous Congressional votes, as even the most pro-abortion Senate Democrats – including every defender of partial-birth abortion – recognized that killing these breathing babies is no longer abortion in any real sense. It crosses the line; it is infanticide. Yet, incredibly, Obama repeatedly worked to deny these living babies any right to life.
The article includes a nurse’s eyewitness account of this murderous practice (now illegal) which she shared with the committee on which Obama served:
Jill Stanek, an Illinois nurse, testified in the U.Ss Congress in 2000 and 2001 – and before Obama’s Illinois Senate Judiciary Committee – about how induced labor abortions were handled at her hospital, relating this story: "One night, a nursing co-worker was taking an aborted Down syndrome baby who was born alive to our Soiled Utility Room because his parents did not want to hold him, and she did not have the time to hold him. I couldn’t bear the thought of this suffering child lying alone in a soiled utility room, so I cradled and rocked him for the 45 minutes that he lived." Powerful stuff. Obama, however, was reportedly "unfazed" by her testimony.
The Post story recounts the debate in the Illinois Senate as it considered a law similar to the Born Alive Infants Protection Act (BAIPA):
But not Obama. In March of 2001, Obama’s Illinois Judiciary Committee considered a law substantially identical to the BAIPA. It passed the Committee, with Obama voting against. In front of the full Illinois Senate, Obama was the only senator to speak against the bill, arguing that life protection extended to any preterm babies could jeopardize abortion rights. He voted "present," tantamount to a "no" vote. In March of 2002, Obama’s Committee passed the Induced Birth Liability Act, requiring medical care for babies who survive induced labor abortions – Obama again voting "present," arguing that the Act would "create one more burden on women, and I can’t support that."
In 2003, the Democrats took control of the Illinois Senate, and Obama became Chairman of the Health and Human Services Committee. A Committee member sponsored an Amendment that would adopt the exact same language in Illinois’s proposed BAIPA that Senator Boxer was satisfied did not curtail any abortion rights in the federal BAIPA. But as Chairman, Obama unilaterally killed the bill by never allowing a Committee vote, thereby preventing it from being voted on by the full Senate and becoming law.
Here is the conclusion the Jerusalem Post makes on Obama’s abortion position, it is startling:
Obama’s position essentially boils down to this: a woman who contracts for an abortion is entitled, one way or another, to a dead baby. A dead baby must result, even if that baby had already been a distinct living being. The killing of some live babies is just part of the price we must pay in order to keep the sacred right to an abortion supreme and absolute, beyond any shadow of a doubt.
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