Obama Campaign Response to Exposure of Infanticide Votes Belies the Evidence

Obama says his votes as an Illinois Senator against legislation to give lifesaving treatment to babies who survive abortions (Born Alive Infant Protection Act) were legitimate. (By the way, he loves the word “legitimate” — called partial-birth abortion a “legitimate” medical procedure in a 2004 fundraising letter signed by Michelle).

Even though documents uncovered by the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC) reveal that Obama voted for a “neutrality” amendment which mirrored language in a virtually identical federal law and then voted against the amended bill, the Obama campaign now claims that “Senator Obama supported such legislation when it did not threaten the Constitutional rights embodied in Roe v. Wade.”

Obama never supported the legislation, with or without the “neutrality” amendment! Yet he claims he is being falsely accused by the “right wing blogosphere and rumor mongers.”

Douglas Johnson, NRLC Legislative Director, stated after Obama’s non-response: “It is rather astonishing that, in light of the new documents that came to light this week, the Obama campaign here continues to brazenly misrepresent the content of the state Born-Alive Infants Protection Act that Obama killed in 2003.”

Obama also ignores the fact that the 2000 version of the federal Born Alive Infant Protection Act had no “neutrality” language and still passed in the House of Representatives by a vote of 380-15, putting him in the tiniest of minorities who believe that a woman seeking an abortion deserves to have a dead baby, even if the baby is separate from her and living and breathing.

Barbara Lyons