Born Alive

I recently was in a discussion with a Christian about Obama.  As a Christian, they had no problem standing with him in agreement as a leader and president.  Through this discussion, we got on the topic of abortion and the "Born Alive" legislation that Obama endorsed.  Many people are NOT familiar with this legislation so I felt this would be a good topic to post here today.

I am going to warn you that this is HEART WRENCHING to discuss this but because of current actions of our medical community and laws that were in place, it needed to be address.  For information verifying these atrocities you can go to Clinic Quotes for more details.  Let me say again, that the information at this site is disturbing but unfortunately it is true documentation!

Mr. Obama commented during the first Presidential debate when asked by Rick Warren the question of, in Mr. Obama's opinion, when does a baby gets human rights? He wouldn't answer the question directly and said it was beyond him theologically or scientifically to answer the question with specificity because it was "above his pay-grade".

As reported to the Chicago Sun Times, ten to twenty percent of babies born during the procedure of a labor induced abortion at Christ Hospital were born alive in 2001.  The intent of the procedure is to open the womb and have the baby "drop out" thereby ending the pregnancy.  Many of these babies don't die in the process and are born alive hence legislation has been introduced to stop this act.  The babies, when born alive are left to die.  No help is given to them because the mother's intent was for the child to die.  So nurses and doctors have to watch a human die with NO help from he medical staff.  No oxygen can be given. No medical treatment at all.  Many of the children are just left laying out-of-sight to die.  This is barbaric!

Mr. Obama took a leadership role and was the ONLY Senator to speak against the Born Alive Infant Protection Act bill that was introduced to the Illinois legislature not once but two legislative years in a row on the Senate floor.  He posted to his web-site that he strategized with Planned Parenthood to defeat this bill.  He later went on to say that this (the Born Alive Infant Protection Act bill) forbid abortions to take place if these babies were protected and that this would then be an anti-abortion statute.

He voted "present" on the Senate when the bill came to a vote and he felt this legislation would ultimately be found to be unconstitutional.  He said voted "present" because in Illinois a "present" vote is the same as a "no" vote.  He thought by doing this he would lure some squeamish Senator's who really didn't want to vote to endorse infanticide (by opposing this bill) that he could lure them to vote "present" as well knowing that this "present" vote would be a "no" vote.

Obama goes on to say that "people are lying" in that he would have supported the Federal bill to support ANY infant that needed assistance even it if it was the consequence of an induced abortion.  His issue is that the bill presented to the Illinois legislature was NOT like the Federal bill.  But in 2001, when Illinois legislation was introduced, he spoke out against it where it would have recognized premature abortions survivors as persons.  This was in response to the Chicago hospital incidence and Obama voted "present" on this.  The second legislation that was introduced in 2003 to the Illinois state Senate came before Obama's health committee that was EXACTLY like the Federal legislation and again, he voted against it yet he has stated that he agreed to the Federal legislation and he would have supported the Federal legislation but his personal issues were with the wording of the Illinois legislation.  THIS is the lie and it is Obama who is caught in it.  The second legislation introduced in Illinois was worded exactly like the Federal legislation that he said he would have supported, yet he didn't.

Furthermore, in 2003, the Born Alive Act had passed 98-0 in the US Senate.  Hillary Clinton, Kerry, Barbara Boxer, Ted Kennedy, all voted for this. Barbara Boxer and Ted Kennedy spoke in favor of it on the Senate floor. There was a neutrality clause also in this Federal bill.

This same neutrality clause was introduced into Barak Obama's state senate health and human services committee.  Barak voted to make this bill identical to the Federal bill by voting to accept this neutrality clause but then he voted against the bill on the Senate floor.  He is going around telling people that he didn't like the Illinois legislation and that he would have supported the Federal legislation and he voted to adapt the neutrality clause (in his committee) to make the 2003 Illinois legislation match the Federal legislation but then he voted against it.  You tell me where the lie is and with who?

People wake up and SEE that this man has a history of not speaking the truth.  This information is beyond spin, this is simply Mr. Obama not being truthful.  He has yet to acknowledge, admit or recant his error.