http://www.factcheck.org/2008/08/obama-and-infanticide/
Let us not forget our 44th president's take...not on abortion, but on born-alive survivors of abortion...
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Anti-abortion activists accuse Obama of "supporting infanticide," and the National Right to Life Committee says he’s conducted a "four-year effort to cover up his full role in killing legislation to protect born-alive survivors of abortions." Obama says they’re "lying."
At issue is Obama’s opposition to Illinois legislation in 2001, 2002 and 2003 that would have defined any aborted fetus that showed signs of life as a "born alive infant" entitled to legal protection, even if doctors believe it could not survive.
Obama opposed the 2001 and 2002 "born alive" bills as backdoor attacks on a woman’s legal right to abortion, but he says he would have been "fully in support" of a similar federal bill that President Bush had signed in 2002, because it contained protections for Roe v. Wade.
We find that, as the NRLC said in a recent statement, Obama voted in committee against the 2003 state bill that was nearly identical to the federal act he says he would have supported. Both contained identical clauses saying that nothing in the bills could be construed to affect legal rights of an unborn fetus, according to an undisputed summary written immediately after the committee’s 2003 mark-up session.
Whether opposing "born alive" legislation is the same as supporting "infanticide," however, is entirely a matter of interpretation. That could be true only for those, such as Obama’s 2004 Republican opponent, Alan Keyes, who believes a fetus that doctors give no chance of surviving is an "infant." It is worth noting that Illinois law already provided that physicians must protect the life of a fetus when there is "a reasonable likelihood of sustained survival of the fetus outside the womb, with or without artificial support."
Let us not forget, there is a difference between your Democrat and your Republican.
I know, the repubs get a lot of hate on forums, and I understand the frustration. Tied to corps, tied to money, the same bull-shit all the same mentality.
Ok, I understand all of that. Make no mistake, there remains a severe difference between the right and the left.
I find any human being ok with the infanticide of an alive baby disturbingly disgusting.
Ok, now let's go hate on republicans. I'm fine with the criticisms they get. They can be grossly differentiated from your average democratic politician.
Mic dropped. I'm going to post in the drunk forum now.
I'm so glad
Ronald Reagan is reading this thread right now.