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The Princeton philosopher Robert George takes a backseat to no one when it comes to thinking and writing about abortion and the sanctity of life. Professor George has taken the time to carefully parse Obama’s positions on life issues.
I am going to list the more spectacular points. All are direct quotes from the article:
- For starters, [Obama] supports legislation that would repeal the Hyde Amendment, which protects pro-life citizens from having to pay for abortions that are not necessary to save the life of the mother and are not the result of rape or incest.
- [Obama] has promised that ”the first thing I’d do as President is sign the Freedom of Choice Act” (known as FOCA). This proposed legislation would create a federally guaranteed ”fundamental right” to abortion through all nine months of pregnancy …
- Obama, unlike even many ”pro-choice” legislators, opposed the ban on partial-birth abortions when he served in the Illinois legislature and condemned the Supreme Court decision that upheld legislation banning this heinous practice.
- Appallingly, [Obama] wishes to strip federal funding from pro-life crisis pregnancy centers that provide alternatives to abortion for pregnant women in need. There is certainly nothing ”pro-choice” about that.
- Senator Obama, despite the urging of pro-life members of his own party, has not endorsed or offered support for the Pregnant Women Support Act, the signature bill of Democrats for Life, meant to reduce abortions by providing assistance for women facing crisis pregnancies. In fact, Obama has opposed key provisions of the Act, including providing coverage of unborn children in the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (S-CHIP), and informed consent for women about the effects of abortion and the gestational age of their child.
- [A]s an Illinois state senator Obama opposed legislation to protect children who are born alive, either as a result of an abortionist’s unsuccessful effort to kill them in the womb, or by the deliberate delivery of the baby prior to viability.
There is much more in Professor George’s article. He has painstakingly put it all together for anyone who wants to make a decision based on all the information to do so.
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bms | 10.16.08 @ 9:06AM
These are debunked and recycled attacks from Alan Keyes in the 2004 Senate race. The only thing Obama did wrong was get confused in an explanation of why he voted down one particular 2003 version of BAIPA after more than 7 different versions of the bill were introduced in the Illinois General Assembly. He, and the rest of the Dems on his HHS committee, voted down that 2003 version because of generally accepted concerns that it could negatively affect a woman’s right to choose in Illinois.
Obama campaign spokesman Tommy Vietor has said that Obama would have voted for the 2005 Illinois bill if he had been a state legislator when it was considered because it addressed the concerns present in the 2003 version, much as he says he would have supported the federal bill, which wouldn’t have impacted non-existent federal law.
These are tired and desperate attacks.
http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/blog/2008/10/16/mccain-repeats-debunked-born-alive-attacks-debate
ZachJonesIsHome| 10.16.08 @ 9:34AM
It seems that Senator Obama is described as having one of the most extreme positions that one can find when it comes to the issue of abortion….Normally, I can understand a lawyer’s dancing on the head of a pin for the sake of not wanting to undermine a future legal argument or position. However, regarding Senator Obama, some other details give me pause and raise questions about whether his stated motivation(s) can be trusted. Obama Would Evidently Throw The Baby Out With The Bathwater found at: http://zachjonesishome.wordpress.com/2008/08/02/obama-would-evidently-throw-the-baby-out-with-the-bathwater/
Bob Waters | 10.23.08 @ 8:25PM
Nice try, bms. Interesting, too, that the same "rebuttal-" almost word for word- seems to be appearing all over the web whenever the truth is pointed out.
In fact, the law which supposedly was "already in place" protecting survivors of abortion had been set aside as unenforcable by a consent decree signed by Illinois Attorney General Roland Burris a full decade before the bill in question was even introduced. The 1975 law protected only infants the abortionist himself believed to be "viable." No matter what the objective medical facts, if the abortionist decided that an infant wasn't "viable" the law offered it no protection whatsoever.
Obama knows this, but continues to repeat the lie that "there was already a law on the books."
And in fact, the Illinois Senate HHS Committee, chaired by Obama, had amended the 2003 Born Alive Bill to include language identical to the Federal statue before deciding to kill it. If Obama "would have" voted for a bill with that language, why didn't he?
Not "tired, desperate attacks" at all, my friend. Truthful responses to lies Obama supporters and less than zealous researchers have been enabling for five years.
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