[Pflienews] PharmFacts E-News Update: Top 10 Reasons Obama Husain voted against protecting preborns in IL
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Thursday, January 10, 2008 -- This from the "unity" candidate
Top 10 reasons Obama voted against the Illinois Born Alive Infant
Protection Act
<http://illinoisreview.typepad.com/illinoisreview/2008/01/top-10-reasons.html>
Here are the top 10 reasons *Barack Obama* has variously stated why he
voted against* Illinois' Born Alive Infant Protection Act* when state
senator.
10. _Babies who survive their abortions are not protected by the Equal
Protection Clause of the Constitution._ Speaking against the Born Alive
Infant Protection Act on the IL Senate floor on March 30, 2001
<http://www.ilga.gov/senate/transcripts/strans92/ST033001.pdf>, Obama,
the sole verbal opponent to the bill stated:
... I just want to suggest... that this is probably not going to
survive constitutional scrutiny.
Number one, whenever we define a previable 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 - child, a nine-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 antiabortion statute. For
that purpose, I think it would probably be found unconstitutional.
9. _A ban to stop aborted babies from being shelved to die would be
burdensome to their mothers. She alone should decide whether her baby
lives or dies._ Before voting "no" for a 2nd time in the Senate
Judiciary Committee on March 5, 2002, Obama stated:
What we are doing here is to create one more burden on women, and I
can't support that.
During a speech at *Benedictine University* in October 2004 [what's an
allegedly Catholic university doing allowing him to speak his
pro-abortion venom there anyway?], Obama said, according to the
/*Illinois Leader*/, that "the decision concerning a baby should be left
to a woman, but that he does not see himself as supportive of abortion."
8. _Wanting to stop live aborted babies from being shelved to die was
all about politics._ During that same speech at Benedictine University,
Obama said, according to the /*Illinois Leader*/, "the bill was
unnecessary in Illinois and was introduced for political reasons."
7. _There was no proof._ Also during the Benedictine University speech,
Obama said, according to the /*Illinois Leader*/, that "there was no
documentation that hospitals were actually doing what was alleged in
testimony presented before him in committee."
6. _Aborting babies alive and letting them die is a doctor's
prerogative._ An Obama spokesman told the /*Chicago Tribune*/ in August
2004 that Obama voted against Born Alive because it included provisions
that "would have taken away from doctors their professional judgment
when a fetus is viable."
5. _Anyway, doctors don't do that._ Obama told the /*Chicago Sun-Times*/
in October 2004 he opposed Born Alive because "physicians are already
required to use life-saving measures when fetuses are born alive during
abortions."
4. _Aborting babies alive and letting them die is a religious issue._
During their *U.S. Senate *competition *Alan Keyes* famously said
<http://www.nbc5.com/politics/3712293/detail.html>:
Christ would not stand idly by while an infant child in that
situation died.... Christ would not vote for Barack Obama, because
Barack Obama has voted to behave in a way that it is inconceivable
for Christ to have behaved.
Obama has always mischaracterized Keyes' rationale for condemning Obama
by implying Keyes was simply making a statement against Obama's
pro-abortion position, which is untrue. Keyes pointedly stated he was
condemning Obama for his support of infanticide.
Nevertheless, live birth abortion must be included in the list of
procedures Obama condones. Obama responded first to Keyes by saying, as
quoted in his July 10, 2006, /*USA Today*/
<http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials/2006-07-09-forum-religion-obama_x.htm>
op ed:
... [W]e live in a pluralistic society, and that I can't impose my
religious views on another.
3. _Aborting babies alive and letting them die violates no universal
principle._ In the same /*USA Today*/ piece, Obama said he reflected on
that first answer, decided it was a "typically liberal response," and
revised it:
... But my opponent's accusations nagged at me.... If I am opposed
to abortion for religious reasons but seek to pass a law banning the
practice, I cannot simply point to the teachings of my church. I
have to explain why abortion violates some principle that is
accessible to people of all faiths, including those with no faith at
all.
2. _Sinking Born Alive was simply about political oneupsmanship._ Obama
has this quote
<http://www.barackobama.com/factcheck/2008/01/08/fact_check_obamas_strong_proch.php>
on his website:
*Pam Sutherland*, the president and CEO of the *Illinois Planned
Parenthood Council*, told /*ABC News*/
<http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2007/07/obama-abortion-.html>.
"We worked with him specifically on his strategy. The Republicans
were in control of the Illinois Senate at the time. They loved to
hold votes on 'partial birth' and 'born alive'. They put these bills
out all the time... because they wanted to pigeonhole Democrats...."
And the #1 reason Obama voted against the Born Alive Infant Protection
Act was:
1. _The IL Born Alive Infant Protection Act was a ploy to undercut *Roe
v. Wade*._ During a debate against Keyes in March 2004, Obama stated:
Now, the bill that was put forward was essentially a way of getting
around /*Roe vs. Wade*/.... At the federal level, there was a
similar bill that passed because it had an amendment saying this
does not encroach on /*Roe vs. Wade*/. I would have voted for that bill.
This was an out-and-out lie. The definition of "born alive" in the
federal and Illinois versions were identical. The only difference came
in paragraph (c), which was originally identical in both versions but
changed on the federal level.
Illinois' paragraph (c): /A live child born as a result of an abortion
shall be fully recognized as a human person and accorded immediate
protection under the law./
Federal paragraph (c): /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./
When the senator sponsoring the IL bill tried to amend IL's paragraph
(c)
<http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=1082&GAID=3&DocTypeID=SB&LegId=3910&SessionID=3&GA=93>,
*Amendment 1* below, to be the same as the federal paragraph (c), Barack
Obama himself, as chairman of the committee hearing the bill, refused,
and he then also killed the bill (click to enlarge).
<http://www.jillstanek.com/obama%20committee%2041.html>
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