Friday, September 19, 2008

Obama attacks abortion survivor Gianna Jessen in ad

This ad is dishonest on so many levels. Obama did vote against the Illinois State Born Alive Infant Protection Act. He did so on many occasions, so it's not like he was unaware of what the issue really was. I agree with Peter Kiranow in National Review's The Corner...

"Consider, however, Obama's stated concern during the Illinois state senate's deliberations on BAIPA that the bill is "really designed to burden the original decision of the woman and the physician to induce labor and perform an abortion." In other words, the decision not to bear a living child has already been made. Under extant Illinois law, there are no further legal impediments to executing that decision, and the ultimate outcome will never be in doubt. Therefore, Obama's "no" vote on BAIPA goes beyond "choice" since, in his mind, the predetermined result was always a dead baby. His vote affirmatively enables infanticide.

Obama worked hard against BAIPA. He's the only U.S. senator to vote against the language of the bill — and he voted against it several times. His position went beyond even that of NARAL. He's declared that if one of his daughter's gets pregnant, he doesn't want her "punished' with a baby."

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