Barack Obaby-killer
Nathan Greene
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By Emily Geiger
With Barack Obama doing so well in recent primaries, I’ve heard a lot of Republicans arguing lately over who they would prefer to be the Democratic presidential nominee. What I’m hearing is that Obama is feared more as a candidate for many reasons. First, he is an excellent communicator. Second, as various talk radio personalities have put it, he gives people the warm-fuzzies, talking about change and hope and other meaningless shinola.
But what should really scare people is his record, particularly on the life issue.
As an Illinois Senator, Barack Obama voted against the Induced Infant Liability Act in 2002. There was a similar bill at the federal level called the Born Alive Infant Protection Act. These bills would have required abortionists who failed to kill a baby before it was removed from its mother’s body to make reasonable efforts to safe the life of the infant who was born alive.
Part of the impetus for this legislation was testimony from a registered nurse who had witnessed doctors leaving babies who had been born alive to die. There were some reports that some doctors had smothered babies born alive, and other reports that babies had been placed in buckets to drown in the “products of conception” that had been removed from the womb.
Obama heard this testimony, saw pictures of babies that were “cast aside” while other premature babies of the same age were receiving treatment and being saved. Obama was “unfazed” by the testimony and the photos, and basically said he just didn’t believe this was true. He saw this bill as making further imposition of women seeking abortions (though it had nothing to do with the woman at that point) despite the fact that even NARAL had not opposed this bill.
As a member of the Illinois Senate’s Judiciary Committee, Obama voted “present” once, and voted “no” on this bill on another occasion. At some point, the bill also went through the Health and Human Services Committee, which Obama chaired. Obama again voted against the bill, it failed in committee, and again died for that legislative session.
Even Hillary supported the federal version of this bill.
As a U.S. Senator, Obama also opposed legislation that would have criminalized the transportation of minors across state lines so they could get an abortion.
While Obama has tried to rationalize his votes on this issue, his position is indefensible. People need to know that when push comes to shove, Barack Obama is more liberal and more dangerous than Hillary. He is not the kind-hearted unifier he pretends to be.
And we need to let all of our Democratic friends in Iowa (who are patting themselves on the back for being so enlightened that they voted for this guy) the truth… that a Barack Obama presidency would be a huge step backwards in the civil rights movement (at least as it pertains to the civil rights of the unborn).
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