Posted on 01/09/2008 9:54:19 AM PST by Kaslin
Barack Obama is the most pro-abortion presidential candidate ever.
He is so pro-abortion he refused as an Illinois state senator to support legislation to protect babies who survived late-term abortions because he did not want to concede -- as he explained in a cold-blooded speech on the Illinois Senate floor -- that these babies, fully outside their mothers' wombs, with their hearts beating and lungs heaving, were in fact "persons."
"Persons," of course, are guaranteed equal protection of the law under the 14th Amendment.
In 2004, U.S. Senate-candidate Obama mischaracterized his opposition to this legislation. Now, as a presidential frontrunner, he should be held accountable for what he actually said and did about the Born Alive Infants Bill.
State and federal versions of this bill became an issue earlier this decade because of "induced labor abortion." This is usually performed on a baby with Down's Syndrome or another problem discovered on the cusp of viability. A doctor medicates the mother to cause premature labor. Babies surviving labor are left untreated to die.
Jill Stanek, who was a nurse at Christ Hospital in Oak Lawn, Ill., testified in the U.S. Congress in 2000 and 2001 about how "induced labor abortions" were handled at her hospital.
"One night," she said in testimony entered into the Congressional Record, "a nursing co-worker was taking an aborted Down's 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."
In 2001, Illinois state Sen. Patrick O'Malley introduced three bills to help such babies. One required a second physician to be present at the abortion to determine if a surviving baby was viable. Another gave the parents or a public guardian the right to sue to protect the baby's rights. A third, almost identical to the federal Born Alive Infant Protection Act President Bush signed in 2002, simply said a "homo sapiens" wholly emerged from his mother with a "beating heart, pulsation of the umbilical cord or definite movement of voluntary muscles" should be treated as a "'person,' 'human being,' 'child' and 'individual.'"
Stanek testified about these bills in the Illinois Senate Judiciary Committee, where Obama served. She told me this week he was "unfazed" by her story of holding the baby who survived an induced labor abortion.
On the Illinois Senate floor, Obama was the only senator to speak against the baby-protecting bills. He voted "present" on each, effectively the same as a "no."
"Number one," said Obama, explaining his reluctance to protect born infants, "whenever we define a pre-viable 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 -- a child, a 9-month old -- child that was delivered to term. That determination then, essentially, if it was accepted by a court, would forbid abortions to take place. 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."
That June, the U.S. Senate voted 98-0 in favor of the Born Alive Infants Protection Act (although it failed to become law that year). Pro-abortion Democrats supported it because this language was added: "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."
Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer explained that with this language the "amendment certainly does not attack Roe v. Wade."
On July 18, 2002, Democratic Sen. Harry Reid called for the bill to be approved by unanimous consent. It was.
That same year, the Illinois version of the bill came up again. Obama voted "no."
In 2003, Democrats took control of the Illinois Senate. Obama became chairman of the Health and Human Services committee. The Born Alive Infant bill, now sponsored by Sen. Richard Winkel, was referred to this committee. Winkel also sponsored an amendment to make the Illinois bill identical to the federal law, adding -- word for word -- the language Barbara Boxer said protected Roe v. Wade. Obama still held the bill hostage in his committee, never calling a vote so it could be sent to the full senate.
A year later, when Republican U.S. senate candidate Alan Keyes challenged Obama in a debate for his opposition to the Born Alive Infant Bill, Obama said: "At the federal level there was a similar bill that passed because it had an amendment saying this does not encroach on Roe v. Wade. I would have voted for that bill."
In fact, Obama had personally killed exactly that bill.
how many of his kids has he aborted?
I pointed this out on a local board to a wobbly Republican, smitten by Obama.
I was immediately accused by others of being obsessed with vaginas
typical, but I got her mind right about Hussein
Ironic, isn’t it?
Does he have any living children? I’ve never heard mention of them.
I am going to start a campaign to take the vote away from Catholics. They are the most pro-abortion, pro-totalitarian voting bloc in the country. Them, and women.
And Hellary is sure steamed about that!
She’s been falling all over herself lately to convince voters SHE’S a bigger pro-abort than Obama.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1949982/posts
I listened to Obama last night, this guy is slick but he’s about a mile wide and an inch deep. He gives a lot of gullibles the warm and fuzzies, but it sounds down deep he has no soul.
He appeals to a relatively small swath of the electorate. He’s a shooting star which may burn out fairly quickly even in the hard left atmosphere of the dim nominating process. Let him get into a general election against a candidate (unlike in the dim primaries) where this absolute disregard for human life along with other issues can be hammered. Assuming the pubbies nominate someone with a prolife background.
I can’t imagine this guy dealing with a Vlad Putin. He’d chew Ophama up and spit him out.
not enough
If it's a child? It's out of the womb, breathing on its own. What would you call it, Obama?
On a personal note, last Wednesday I was blessed with a beautiful, healthy grandson, our fourth grandchild. My son, who was in the delivery room, related to me that, at the end of the process, the baby's head had already emerged and, while awaiting the last "push," a nurse wiped off the baby's face. My son recalled being delighted at seeing his child's face for the very first time; he still did not know, at the time if it was a boy or a girl.
My son and I discussed how absolutely inconceivable it is that many democrats would consider destroying the baby at that time to be perfectly acceptable. The idea that a baby could be left to die after being completely born is actually beyond our comprehension.
To think the way that the libs think on this issue is impossible to fathom. One doesn't have to be religious, nor does one have to accept a new life as a miracle. But, to be so cold-hearted, so devoid of a soul to be able to allow a doctor to vacuum out the brain of a very young human being, is something that transcends religion and questions the very humanity of those who can conscience it. Allowing a fully born but unwanted child to die of neglect is the other side of the same coin.
Basically he is a cult of personality idiot in the same vein of a JFK. No substance but the camera loves him. Same type Clintonian pseudo “I feel your pain” caring crap. Give him a zit or knock out a tooth, and he’s less than nothing! just goes to show how shallow Democraps are. Its always style over substance....or record.
There's probably not much difference between both of them
Oh, but we have brilliant people here who would not vote for McCain (staunchly pro life) and would PREFER to see Hilary or Obama elected. I’m not a McCain supporter, but even Giuliani would be better than the dems IF he sticks to his pledge of conservative judges.
Abortionists stand in the way of fetal rights. Those most affected by abortion never get a vote.
What an idiotic and ignorant thing to say. I would venture to say that the very heart of the prolife movement today is kept beating by the Catholic Church.
The Catholic Church is divided like any other segment of American Society. Liberals are really liberal and conservatives are really conservative. Think of Bob Dornan vs. Ted Kennedy.
But even among the liberal "feed the poor" Catholics a vast majority of them are very, very prolife. I know. I've met them.
Now take your ignorant bigotry somewhere else please.
it's a disease I can't shake either.
if Obama weren't mixed race he'd be John Edwards.....white folks even here just can't get enough of being cool about minorities even if it's only half right
JFK was doped up when he negotiated with the Soviets.
I wonder what his reaction would be if the very person who started Roe V. Wade came to him and told him she was against this.
I recently discovered that the woman who started Roe V. Wade has recanted her statements and is now trying to get abortion banned.
these people are not only devoid of souls, they’re monsters. Diseased and orgasmic ghouls who think sex is only for recreation, and the miracles in life are someone else’s responsability and therefore a burden.
God help us if these people ever get in office again.
This may explain his popularity in the large liberal community. So many people who have been born can’t wait to snuff out their own children or grandchildren.
It’s like the saying that “liberty for wolves means death for lambs”, but many Americans cannot understand. That’s why we call them “the sheeple”.
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