Barack the Baby Killer

Opposed, Bottled Up Born Alive Infants Protection Act

Abortion is one of the most divisive issues in our country, but whether you're pro-life or "pro-choice", there are certain things on which I think most of us can agree.  One of these is that children, once born, are entitled to the legal protections of a human being and cannot and should not be killed.

Apparently, Senator Barack Obama does not agree.

He was one of the driving forces in the state legislature preventing Illinois from adopting the Born Alive Infants Protection Act.  This entirely reasonable law would stop hospitals and abortion mills from shelving live aborted babies to die with no medical attention.  In other words, those babies who are born alive in spite of the abortionist's efforts were being left to die and the state legislature wanted to prevent this barbaric practice.  Barack Obama fought to stop passage of this bill in 2001 and 2002.  He was the only State Senator to speak against the act.  In 2003, he was the chairman of the committee that bottled up the Born Alive Infants Protection Act, preventing its passage.

How could Barack Obama oppose such a law?  He explained, "Now, the bill that was put forward was essentially a way of getting around Roe vs. Wade, which is why 21 other senators, Democrat and Republican, why the Illinois Medical Society objected to the bill. 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."

The problem is that the Federal bill had no such amendment.   In addition, no more than 10 state senators in Illinois ever opposed the bill.  So Obama is being disingenuous about his opposition.  Is he really just opposed to outlawing the barbaric practice of infanticide? 

Even Senator Hillary Clinton supported the Born Alive Infant Protection Act, as did many other "pro-choice" people.  But not Barack Obama.

Is that what Democrats mean when they talk about how they're "for the children"?