Russ Feingold: Partial-Birth Abortion

This post is about Russ Feingold's pro-abortion radicalism, but it speaks well beyond that issue.

This post is first and foremost about Feingold. It's about Feingold's JUDGMENT and his CHARACTER.

Abortion and pro-life issues aren't driving most voters this election cycle. It's the economy. It's jobs. It's ObamaCare and its disastrous consequences for our economy and for our lives.

Protecting innocent human life, the weak and the vulnerable, may not be Wisconsinites' main concern when they cast their votes for the U.S. Senate; but where Feingold stands on partial-birth abortion matters because it reveals so much about him and exposes his disturbing lack of competence to serve.

If you're an occasional reader of this blog, you know that I have been talking about Russ Feingold's shocking extremism for years.

I've repeatedly posted Feingold's chilling exchange about partial-birth abortion with Sen. Rick Santorum, September 26, 1996.

This is the first time I've seen the video.

Wisconsin Right to Life, thank you for giving me the opportunity to see Feingold actually deliver his remarks.

He doesn't flinch at all. It's truly shocking.

Feingold declares that a baby accidentally born alive during the horrific partial-birth abortion procedure shouldn't be protected. He says that living baby's fate should be up to the doctor and mother.

They had decided to kill that innocent human being, but the doctor failed. Nonetheless, Feingold believes that failure shouldn't stand in the way of killing the baby even after birth.

Watch Feingold. Look at his face. There's no hesitation.

Feingold coldly responds that he's not competent to answer Sen. Santorum's question, "Would you allow the doctor to kill the baby?"

Russ Feingold: Radically Pro-Abortion from Wisconsin Right to Life on Vimeo.

Here's the transcript I've been posting for years to illustrate Feingold's extremism.

This is so revealing in terms of Feingold's judgment and his character.

Sen. Santorum: Will the Senator from Wisconsin yield for a question?

Sen. Feingold: I will.

Sen. Santorum: The Senator from Wisconsin says that this decision should be left up to the mother and the doctor, as if there is absolutely no limit that could be placed on what decision that they make with respect to that. And the Senator from California [Sen. Barbara Boxer] is going up to advise you of what my question is going to be, and I will ask it anyway. And my question is this: that if that baby were delivered breech style and everything was delivered except for the head, and for some reason that that baby's head would slip out -- that the baby was completely delivered -- would it then still be up to the doctor and the mother to decide whether to kill that baby?

Sen. Feingold: I would simply answer your question by saying under the Boxer amendment, the standard of saying it has to be a determination, by a doctor, of health of the mother, is a sufficient standard that would apply to that situation. And that would be an adequate standard.

Sen. Santorum: That doesn't answer the question. Let's assume that this procedure is being performed for the reason that you've stated, and the head is accidentally delivered. Would you allow the doctor to kill the baby?

Sen. Feingold: I am not the person to be answering that question. That is a question that should be answered by a doctor, and by the woman who receives advice from the doctor. And neither I, nor is the Senator from Pennsylvania, truly competent to answer those questions. That is why we should not be making those decisions here on the floor of the Senate.

That exchange is absolutely chilling, so chilling that Feingold had the Congressional Record altered.

Feingold actually refused to say that the life of a baby who survived a late-term abortion should be protected.

That's not just being pro-abortion. That's pro-infanticide.

If Feingold doesn't realize that an abortion survivor has the right to live, if his judgment and his character are that terribly flawed, then he's not fit to serve in the Senate.

The reality is Feingold does not represent the views of most Wisconsinites.

Again, who is the extremist in this race?

It's not Ron Johnson.