Obama Caught Red-Handed in Cover-Up of Infanticide Votes

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.

Since the bill applied only to federal law, one would think the Illinois legislature would move heaven and earth to allow Illinois docs and nurses to at least attempt to save the lives of living babies, fully separated from their mothers, as much as humanly possible instead of dumping them on a cold stainless steel counter until they died.

Enter Barack Obama, who served as chair of the Illinois State Senate Health and Human Services Committee which presided over similar proposed Illinois legislation. 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.

Now we know the real, and very sad, story. Obama is covering up his infanticide votes by trying to trick people into thinking he isn’t heartless — he just needed some clarifying language and the Illinois bill would have had his vote. Right.
This story needs to be spread far and wide to all who care about protecting human life and especially those who are somehow deluded by Obama’s slick explanations.

To read the entire report by Doug Johnson, the National Right to Life Committee Legislative Director, please click here.

Barbara Lyons