Obama Says National Right to Life is Lying!

Obama has been caught red-handed by the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC) as reported in this blog last week. Records from the Illinois state legislative committee Obama chaired reveal that Obama voted for language clarifying that a Born Alive bill would not affect Roe v. Wade, and then voted against the amended bill which contained the language he claims to this day would have made the bill acceptable to him.

As reported yesterday in LifeNews.com, Obama told CBN News correspondent David Brody that NRLC is lying! What Obama said is so delicious that here it is in full:

“I have said repeatedly that I would have been completely in, fully in support of the federal bill that everybody supported — which was to say — that you should provide assistance to any infant that was born — even if it was as a consequence of an induced abortion. That was not the bill that was presented at the state level. What that bill also was doing was trying to undermine Roe vs. Wade,” Obama claimed.

And, then the shots at NRLC: “So for people to suggest that I… somehow in favor of withholding life saving support from an infant born alive is ridiculous. It defies commonsense and it defies imagination and for people to keep on pushing this is offensive and it’s an example of the kind of politics that we have to get beyond.

“It’s one thing for people to disagree with me about the issue of choice, it’s another thing for people to out and out misrepresent my positions repeatedly, even after they know that they’re wrong,” huffed an offended Obama.

Douglas Johnson, NRLC Legislative Director, has issued a challenge to Obama: “We now challenge Obama to either declare the two 2003 legislative documents to be forgeries and call for an official investigation, or else apologize for his four years of misrepresentation on the issue of babies who are born alive during abortions — and for calling us liars.”

Stay tuned — this is the issue that lays Obama bare, clearly gets under his skin, and is not going to go away.

Barbara Lyons