.... brings a forklift and a dump truck to the debate...
So he can haul his sorry @$$ home after Ryan kicks it all over the stage then hands it to him....
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Just sayin'
Partial-Birth Abortion: In 1995, legislation was introduced in Congress to place a national ban on partial-birth abortion -- the abortion method, used usually in the fifth and sixth months and sometimes later, in which the baby is mostly delivered alive before being stabbed in the head and killed. Biden consistently voted for this legislation and against attempts to weaken it. When President Clinton twice vetoed the ban, Biden voted to override the vetoes. The ban finally became law in 2003, when Congress again passed it with Biden's support and sent it to President George W. Bush, who signed it. The ban was vehemently opposed by pro-abortion advocacy groups, in part because it contained no so-called "health" exception (although it did contain an exception for life-of-mother cases), and it applied both before and after "viability."
In 2007, when Biden was challenged on his support for the ban when speaking before a liberal group; he responded, "I voted for the partial-birth abortion ban . . . I think it’s an extraordinary circumstance, I make no apologies for it."
In contrast, Barack Obama opposed a similar ban on partial-birth abortion as a member of the Illinois State Senate. When Obama arrived in the U.S. Senate, the federal ban had already been enacted, but when the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the ban in 2007, Obama denounced the Court's ruling. Soon after that, Obama cosponsored the "Freedom of Choice Act," a proposed federal bill designed to nullify the federal ban on partial-birth abortion -- and virtually all other federal and state limitations on abortion.
"Freedom of Choice Act": During much of Biden's Senate career, pro-abortion groups actively pushed officeholders to embrace the "Freedom of Choice Act" (FOCA). The FOCA of the 1990s was a bill to overturn virtually all state limitations on abortion. Biden repeatedly declined to support such legislation unless a number of exceptions were added -- exceptions that were unpalatable to pro-abortion advocacy groups.
For example, in a 1990 letter, he said, "I have some questions about the language of S. 1912 [FOCA] and its legal implications. For example, it could result in federal preemption of state abortion regulations and laws in areas where Roe v. Wade now permits states to act, such as laws regulating second and third trimester abortions."
(While Biden in that statement and on other occasions displayed a misunderstanding of the full parameters of the original Roe v. Wade, the statement is one evidence among many that he was sympathetic in that era to recognizing state power to place some limits on abortion, which was contrary to the core purpose of the FOCA.)
In 2007, on the day after the Supreme Court upheld the ban on partial-birth abortions, pro-abortion leaders in Congress reintroduced the FOCA. This bill (S. 1173) contained explicit language to overturn federal as well as state limits on abortion -- and the bill was openly billed by its sponsors as incorporating nullification of the federal ban on partial-birth abortion that the Supreme Court had just upheld. On May 11, 2007, Senator Obama cosponsored this FOCA, but Senator Biden did not. (For more information, see "Pro-Abortion Lawmakers Propose 'FOCA' to Invalidate All Limits on Abortion," NRL News, April 25, 2007.)
On July 17, 2007, Obama told the Planned Parenthood Action Fund that if elected president, "The first thing I’d do as president is sign the Freedom of Choice Act. Now that’s the first thing I’d do." Since Congress never sent the FOCA to Obama's desk, this promise was never tested, but Obama has never repudiated his endorsement of the FOCA.
On October 9, 2012, the Center for Reproductive Rights announced a new campaign for a "national level" solution to end state-imposed limitations on abortion -- a possible precursor to a renewed drive for the FOCA if Obama is re-elected. Does Biden continue to oppose such an extreme national abortion statute -- or does he now embrace the FOCA endorsements of Barack Obama?
Federal Funding for Abortion: For decades, Senator Joe Biden voted for the Hyde Amendment and similar limitations on federal funding for abortion. In 1983, Biden wrote, "I might also add that I find it difficult to understand how those who refuse to limit the right of abortion in this country can at the same time support the expansion of the government's financial involvement in providing for abortions. That is why I have been a consistent supporter of the Hyde Amendment, which prohibits the use of Medicaid funds to finance abortions. I believe that it is not the government's business to be promoting abortion in any way." In a 1994 letter, Biden wrote, "[T]hose of us who are opposed to abortion should not be compelled to pay for them. As you may know, I have consistently -- on no fewer than 50 occasions -- voted against federal funding of abortion."
It is noteworthy, especially in view of recent rhetoric from the Obama campaign and the mainstream news media, that Biden consistently favored the original form of the Hyde Amendment, which contained only one exception, allowing federal funding if an abortion was deemed necessary to save the life of the mother. When opportunities were presented to Biden to choose between the Hyde Amendment with only the life-of-mother exception, and proposals to add additional exceptions, Biden supported the life-of-mother-only version.
Biden advocated the life-of-mother-only position at least as early as 1977, and at least as late as 1988, which was the last time that the Senate voted directly on the question of whether to add exceptions for rape and incest. (Roll call on inclusion of rape/incest amendments in the Hyde Amendment, September 13, 1988, roll call no. 326.)
Ultimately, in 1993, Congressman Hyde himself added rape-incest exceptions in order to fend off an attempt by newly elected President Clinton and his allies to repeal the Hyde Amendment altogether. After that, the Senate no longer voted on whether to add the exceptions.
As an Illinois state senator, as a U.S. senator, and as a candidate for president in 2007-2008, Barack Obama consistently opposed all limitations on government funding of abortion, including the Hyde Amendment. As president, Obama has sometimes used clever verbal formulas to fool some gullible journalists into thinking that he now supports the Hyde Amendment, but in reality Obama has never changed his substantive position.
Indeed, in 2009-2010 Obama worked actively against the Stupak-Pitts Amendment, which would have applied the principles of the Hyde Amendment to his health care legislation, which is why the final Obamacare law contains multiple abortion-expansive provisions. In 2010 he issued a hollow executive order which many journalists accepted as extending the Hyde Amendment to Obamacare, but which NRLC dismissed as "a transparent political fig leaf" and the president of Planned Parenthood dismissed as "a symbolic gesture."
In short, Obama's actually record on federal funding of abortion is fully consistent with the language of the 2012 Democratic Party platform, which says, "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." As was widely reported, President Obama personally fine-tuned some other planks in the 2012 platform -- but he did not touch this unequivocal language in support of government-funded abortion.
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The act of conceiving, carrying a child through the months of development, giving birth is either the greatest gift of life through what is otherwise known as motherhood or it is plain and simple, nothing less than murder; wanton,
brutal, barbaric. There can be no compromise, there is no middle ground.
So he can haul his sorry @$$ home after Ryan kicks it all over the stage then hands it to him....
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Just sayin'
Ryan: If you are asking if Governor Romney and myself are against partial birth abortion where the viable fetus is not permitted to exit the uterus totally so scissors can be thrust into it's skull or if you mean that we do not support the disposal of a live fetus after a botched abortion or if we in general do not support infanticide except in cases of rape and incest where family or a loving couple cannot the found to adopt the child, then yes Governor Romney and I are against the murder of the unborn, partially born or incompetent abortionists.