Obama and the Born Alive Infant Protection Act

Barack Obama is all about change.

He even thinks he has the power to change history.

Obama really needs to learn that he can't distort and alter his record. He can't change the past, his past.

From Life Voice Blog, Barbara Lyons writes:

The smooth and ever-apologetic Barack Obama has been caught red-handed in his attempt to gloss over his infanticide votes as an Illinois State Senator to prevent living, breathing babies who survive abortion attempts from receiving lifesaving care.

Doug Johnson, Legislative Director for the National Right to Life Committee, has uncovered committee documents from 2003 revealing that Obama voted for a “neutrality clause” amendment to an Illinois bill requiring treatment for these infants and, immediately afterwards, led the committee Democrats into killing the amended bill by a 6-4 vote.

The born alive bill that Obama killed as committee chair was virtually identical to the federal law he now says he would have supported.

As background information, Jill Stanek, a nurse who worked at Christ Hospital in Chicago (right in Obama’s backyard), blew the lid on the hospital’s practice of inducing premature labor in a woman seeking a late-term abortion. The “tiny” problem that ensued is that some of these babies were born breathing and alive. Eyewitness accounts reveal that babies were left on the counter in the soiled linen room to die. Stanek herself held one precious baby for 45 minutes until he died.

The U.S. Congress responded by enacting the Born Alive Infant Protection Act (BAIPA) in 2002 with not a single dissenting vote in either house. Included in the bill was a “neutrality clause” which read: “Nothing in this section shall be construed to affirm, deny, expand, or contract any legal status or legal right applicable to any member of the species homo sapiens at any point prior to being ‘born alive’ as defined in this section.” With this clarification that unborn babies were not included in the bill’s provisions, even the likes of Ted Kennedy, Russ Feingold and Hillary Clinton allowed the bill to be passed and it was signed into law by President Bush.

Obama couldn't be more extreme on this issue.

A baby survives a late-term abortion. The infant is alive. Obama refused to vote to provide protection for a newborn abortion survivor.

It's absolutely barbaric to set aside a living, breathing baby aside to die. Obama is OK with that.

Even the embarrassment from Wisconsin, Sen. Russ Feingold, enemy of the unborn, agreed to support the Born Alive Infant Protection Act once the neutrality clause was added.

...In 2003, after the 2002 federal bill with the “neutrality clause” had passed and even the National Abortion Rights Action League had removed its opposition, Obama and his Illinois colleagues had a crack at righting this terrible wrong occurring under their noses in Illinois.

As a presidential candidate, Obama has repeatedly stated (and convinced the mainstream media) that his votes on three separate occasions against Illinois bills to provide treatment for babies born alive following an abortion attempt were because there was no “neutrality clause” and he feared that the legislation would negatively impact Roe v. Wade. He justifies his votes by saying that he would have voted for the federal version of the bill as an Illinois Senator had the opportunity presented itself.

Time for Obama to quit lying about his infanticide votes.
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Complete report.
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From WorldNetDaily, Jill Stanek provides "Obama's 10 reasons for supporting infanticide."
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From Wisconsin Right to Life news release, August 13, 2008:

“Barack Obama had the opportunity to right a terrible wrong that was occurring right under his nose,” said [Susan Armacost, Legislative Director for Wisconsin Right to Life]. “But instead, he used the power of his committee chairmanship to prevent Illinois doctors and nurses to attempt to save the lives of living babies, fully separated from their mothers, leaving them to die alone - in the dark - in filthy conditions.”

...“Barack Obama is blatantly trying to cover up his infanticide votes,” said Armacost. “The heartlessness and callousness of this individual needs to be exposed. The vast majority of Americans care about protecting human life. They deserve to know the truth about Barack Obama’s utter disregard for human life.”