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In 2008, the Democrat Party platform on abortion read this way:

"The Democratic Party strongly and unequivocally supports Roe v. Wade and a woman’s right to choose a safe and legal abortion, regardless of ability to pay, and we oppose any and all efforts to weaken or undermine that right."

Obama was in charge of the Democrat Party in 2008, and there's been no scuttlebutt whatsoever about any change that might include an exception for children who are already partially born and very much alive -- but still aborted. The practice known as partial-birth abortion is infanticide -- nothing more, nothing less. It's a horrifying procedure (more here) that over two-thirds of Americans believe should be illegal.

The Democrat party platform references legal abortions, thus excluding illegal ones. Partial birth abortions were banned under federal law years ago due to their deleterious effects on interstate commerce.

As with homegrown wheat or marijuana for personal use or the failure to purchase government-approved health insurance, it is important to our national economy that the Congress regulates partial birth abortions. Or something.

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Quote from the law linked above:

(a) Any physician who, in or affecting interstate or foreign commerce, knowingly performs a partial-birth abortion and thereby kills a human fetus shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 2 years, or both.

4 words into the law, I start to see trouble. I don't care how much everyone hates partial birth abortions, this is not necessary and proper for Congress to regulate commerce among the several states. That's nonsense. Ron Paul was right to point out the constitutional flaw in the law, not to mention the moral one, and wrong to vote for it anyway.