Posted on 02/24/2012 11:23:02 AM PST by NEOhio
In a fact check of Wednesday's Republican presidential debate on CNN, Associated Press reporters Calvin Woodward and Tom Raum take Newt Gingrich to task for stating:
"If we’re going to have a debate about who the extremist is on these issues, it is President Obama, who as a state senator voted to protect doctors who killed babies who survived the abortion."
Citing the above statement in a list of what they call "head-scratching claims," Woodward and Raum challenge it as follows:
"THE FACTS: As an Illinois state senator, Obama voted against legislation promoted by anti-abortion activists that would have conferred protection to fetuses showing any signs of life after an abortion, even if doctors did not believe the fetus was viable. Obama pointed to an existing Illinois law requiring doctors to protect fetuses they believed were likely to survive after an abortion, and said he was concerned the proposed new law was so broad it could interfere with routine abortions. Obama said he would have supported federal legislation President George W. Bush signed in 2002 that would protect a viable fetus but reaffirmed a woman’s right to an abortion."
These assertions miss the truth in three key respects, which are covered in Just Facts' research on abortion in the sections dealing with live births and terminology.
(Excerpt) Read more at justfactsdaily.com ...
You’re still here...but not for long.
How is a child outside of the womb a “fetus”?
Hmmm?
IBTZ!!!
How are you enjoying your Zero-induced 40% unemployment up there in NE Ohio, libtard?
Newt said that Obama voted to “protect doctors who killed babies who survived the abortion.” The preexisting law already prohibited this. The law Obama voted against required doctors to provide palliative care to such babies even if they had no chance of long-term survival. That’s the difference.
Wow, this is the first response you’ve ever posted.
You previously posted and ran.
That's exactly why the Obama-loving libtards are wanting to make 2012 a social issue election. They simply cannot defend this economy.
Do you know what palliative care is? It’s keeping the child as comfortable as possible....warmth, holding, etc as opposed to throwing in the soiled laundry which was being done.
The man is inhumane, evil!!!
You’re lucky, mods a little slow on the draw today.
IBTZ
I wouldn’t bother doing any work on my profile page if I were you.
Is that your deodorant falling or did you step in something?
The fact is that the Federal bill Obama says he would have supported is essentially identical to the state bill he opposed, which was simply to provide protection to infants born alive after a failed abortion. Even Hillary! supported the Federal bill. Obama opposed protecting infants born alive. IOW, he supported legal infanticide.
But what do you expect from a person with absolutely no moral compass?
IATZ!
You hid here for four years just so you could defend infanticide?
I went to Justfactsdaily to check out the OP's facts. On the sidebar, there is a column for "Global Warming: Just the Facts."
If you can believe it, they are actually using Michael Mann's hockey stick graph as evidence for global warming!!!!!!!
Ha ha ha ha ha!
IBTZ, you lying putz!
No. Read it again.
“Obama pointed to an existing Illinois law requiring doctors to protect fetuses they believed were likely to survive after an abortion, and said he was concerned the proposed new law was so broad it could interfere with routine abortions.” He wanted the abortion to through even if it happened to be botched by a doc who managed to birth a live baby.
“Obama said he WOULD HAVE supported federal legislation President George W. Bush signed in 2002 that would protect a viable fetus but reaffirmed a woman’s right to an abortion.” But that was NOT the law in front of him.
bingo.
Gianna Jessen’s speech in Australia should be required viewing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPF1FhCMPuQ
Both Parts.
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