Posted by
Shannon in Friday, August 22nd 2008
On April 4th, 2002, Barack Obama debated the bill set before the Illinois State Senate which said if an infant survives a late-term abortion, it should recieve medical attention. Barack was, of course, opposing the bill. He voted “present” which was a no vote, a cowardly no vote.
In the transcripts of that day on page 32-34, he said the following:
As I understand it, this puts the burden on the attending physician who has determined, since they were performing this procedure, that, in fact, this is a nonviable fetus; that if this fetus, or child - however you want to describe it, is now outside the mothers womb and the doctor continues to think that its nonviable but there’s, lets say, movement or some indication that, in fact, they’re not just coming out limp and dead, that, in fact, they would then have to call a second physician to monitor and check off and make sure that this is not a live child that could be saved.
[T]he only plausible rationale, to my mind, for this legislation would be if you had a suspicion that a doctor, the attending physician, who has made the assessment that this is a nonviable fetus and that, let’s say for the purposes of the mother’s health, is being — that — that labor is being induced, that that physician (a) is going to make the wrong assessment and (b) if the physician discovered, after the labor had been induced, that, in fact, he made an error, and in fact this was not a nonviable fetus but, in fact, a live child, that the physician, of his own accord or her own accord, would not try to exercise the sort of medical procedures and practices that would be involved in saving that child.
Now, if — if you think that there are possibilities that doctors would not do that, then maybe this bill makes sense, but I — I suspect and my impression is, is that the Medical Society suspects that doctors feel that they would already be under that obligation, that they would already be making these determinations, and that essentially adding a — an additional doctor who the has to be called in an emergency situation to come in and make these assessments is really designed simply to burden the original decision of the woman and the physician to induce labor and perform an abortion.
Now, if that’s the case –and — and I know some of us feel very strongly one way or the other on that issue — that’s fine, but I think it’s important to understand that this issue ultimately is about abortion and not live births. Because if these children are being born alive, I, at least, have confidence that a doctor who is in that room is going to make sure they’re looked after.
Now, take note of a few things Barack says in these arguments. First, he brings up the mother’s health, which as we know is an excuse pro-abortion supporters often like to use in defense of the need for abortion.
This whole debate and the reason for this bill was to determine if that infant born alive through a botched abortion was deemed a child with rights and worthy of medical treatment. Why in the world would Barack bring up the mothers health? It does not relate to whether we treat the infant or we toss it in a utility room. Remember, Barack said this after Jill Stanek had testified about witnessing a surviving baby being carelessly cast aside to die in a utility closet in Christ Hospital where she worked. (Thankfully, she did step in and hold that baby for 45 minutes til he passed away.)
Barack took this debate and used it to further his own pro-choice agenda. He was so worried that this bill in some way would be used someday as argument that Roe v Wade be overturned. This shows his ability to simply ignore important human rights issues in order to further his political views. It was clear that Obama in no way wanted to anger is prochoice political backers.
Even in the Saddleback Forum, when Barack answered the question, when does life begin, you could see him trying to figure out how he could answer that question in a church and please the Christian audience but at the same time not anger his prochoice supportors. He never did answer the question saying it was “above his pay grade” to answer it.
Secondly, Barack argues that we should assume that a Doctor would make the right choice and treat an infant that was viable. But clearly, we could not assume that because that was the whole reason for the debate. Doctors were not making the right decision to treat live infants. A law needed to be in place to make sure of that!
As a pro-life conservative, hearing details of an abortion procedure makes me ill. When Barack so bluntly puts it “coming out limp and dead” when refering to the baby being extracted from the mother, it is really hard to hear.
To take a life of a child that is growing in his/hers mothers womb and stop that life from growing is wrong, it is murder. That child needs and relies on his mother for everything and to have the one person in this world that should be protecting it, turn and end its life, is so sad to me. But we can talk of abortion another day, what is important today is that Barack was caught in a lie and that very lie has unveiled a whole other level of self interest and coldheartedness that even the lowest of the lefties have not reached.
“Obama protected infanticide in order to protect abortion on demand. There simply is no other explanation except abject stupidity, and this passage proves it.” -Ed Morrissey of HotAir
Unbelievable. This is your democratic nominee for the President of the United States, what a sad state of affairs. May the truth set us free.
She has a natural gift for speaking that very few possess. Sarah is certainly someone that can give Barack Obama a run for his money!
VP pick. Many thought a woman would be on a ticket this year but none thought it would be on the Republican side. McCain has chosen Gov. Sarah Palin from Alaska.
right these days. (Then again, when has she?) In an interview on NBC’s Meet the Press, Pelosi was asked about her views on abortion. She replied that she is an ardent Catholic and her church leaders have debated when life begins for centuries. Blah, blah, blah. Even when pressed that the Catholic Church is very clear today that life begins at conception, she said that they’ve only been clear recently, in the last 50 years.
had revealed that the bill set before Barack in the Illinois State Senate had contained the same language as the federal bill that passed. Barack had previously said it did not contain the same wording therefore that was why he could not support it in the State Senate.
