In 2001 a bill went before the Illinois senate. It dealt with the rights of and treatment for babies born alive during late term induced labor abortions. [The following is from the townhall website below.]
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.'"
Barack Obama opposed the Illinois bill. Vehemently. And voted 'present.' He didn't even have the guts to vote 'no.' He gave numerous excuses for his position, and the one he has reiterated recently is that by requiring a second doctor "What we are doing here is to create one more burden on women, and I can't support that." So the constitutionally protected rights of a living person (no debate on whether a fetus is a person with constitutional rights necessary, this is now no longer a fetus and is an independently living, full-fledged person) are to be superceded by a 'burden' imposed on a woman who chose to have an abortion on a fetus on the cusp of viability?
This is infanticide. This is murder. I'm not going to debate whether abortion is murder, although I freely admit I am pro-life and anti-abortion. This isn't abortion. This procedure and the resultant suffering are the same as suffocating any newborn.
Barack Obama is the most pro-abortion presidential candidate ever. And he couldn't even take a stand on a bill that passed the Federal congress UNANIMOUSLY, and was supported by the National Abortion Rights Activists League (NARAL). Supported by a pro-choice lobbyist group!
Now, go hug your kids to try to get the ick out.
http://townhall.com/columnists/terencejeffrey/2008/01/09/obama_is_the_most_pro-abortion_candidate_ever
http://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2008/08/barack_obamas_abortion_crime_a.html
http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/08/obamas_abortion_challenge_1.html
4 comments:
Oh my goodness!!!! It scares me that he is in the runnings for president. I cannot believe some of these things. I don't know what else to say, but I have been researching a little too and boy, I hope and pray he doesn't get elected! I will definately be voting!
This one does stick in my craw a bit. I suppose I can take Obama's word that the language on a state level would impact state laws in a way that language on a federal level wouldn't, but I still think it was a lapse in judgment. Although people are entitled to lapses in judgment from time to time, you are right here.
This is a valid reason not to vote for Obama. To me, there are just so many more reasons not to vote for McCain.
Well, spence, you're right. There was a lot of intellectual thought put into these posts and by following the links associated therein, especially on this issue, BO's position should not even be considered.
This article perfectly summarizes my feelings on abortion;
http://www.lds.org/ldsorg/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=2354fccf2b7db010VgnVCM1000004d82620aRCRD&locale=0&sourceId=b4b8db98e2b9c110VgnVCM100000176f620a____&hideNav=1
This is why I can't vote for Obama. I just can't support murder of babies to summarize it bluntly. There is no way I can rationalize that or feel like there are more good reasons to outweigh the bad for Obama.
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