this to me is the most disgusting aspect of Barack H. Obama’s record and tells me everything i need to know about him.
In August of 2002 the Federal Born Alive Infants Protection Act was signed into law after a 98-0 vote in the senate and overwhelming support in the house and even some pro-abortion groups expressed neutrality. The purpose of this law was basically to declare/define living babies removed from the mother as humans and deserving rights under the constitution (amazing that we even have to do this). The wording in the bill was the same one used by the World Health Organization in 1950 and adopted by the United Nations in 1955.
Obama, of course, was not in the United States senate at this time, but 3 times he had a chance to cast a vote on similar, and in one case an identical, bills while in the Illinois Senate. FWIW, its common for states to have identical bills to already passed federal law to deal with cases tried in state vs federal court, ect. Anyway here is the history behind Obama’s failure to support legislation protecting babies born alive in botched abortions.
2001-senate bill 1095 Obama voted no in committee and present on the floor (effectively a no). the bill passed the senate but not the illinois house.
2002-senate bill 1662 Obama voted no in committee and no on the floor. there were also a number of companion bills dealing with requiring an additional doctor to determine viability and requiring health care to a born alive infant. his reasoning during debates on the floor were it added more burdens to the mother/physicians and this quote “whenever we define a pre-viable fetus as a person that is protected by the Equal Protection Clause or the other elements in the Constitution, what we’re really saying is, in fact, that they are persons that are entitled to the kinds of protections that would be provided to a — a child, a 9-month old — child that was delivered to term. That determination then, essentially, if it was accepted by a court, would forbid abortions to take place. I mean, it — it would essentially bar abortions, because the Equal Protection Clause does not allow somebody to kill a child, and if this is a child, then this would be an anti-abortion statute.” essentially he thought the illinois born alive act would undermine roe v wade.
ok fine you are worried these acts will outlaw all abortion…well the federal act passed later that year and it included a clause that 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.” remember, this bill passed overwhelmingly with this clause in it, not even the most liberal women in the senate voted against it–passed 98-0.
so now we go to 2003….
2003-democrats had taken control of the illinois senate and Obama was chair of the health and human services committe. the born alive bill is re-introduced a third time and referred to Barack’s committee, this time the clause that was in the federal law is added (obama voted for allowing this clause). but even with the clause that would protect roe v. wade, Barack voted against the bill and didn’t allow the bill out of committee.
2005-with Barack having moved on to the U.S. senate, the Born Alive Infant Protection Act passes in Illinois.
an aside to all of this is Obama saying that he would have supported the federal bill that passed in 2002 if it had been presented to him in Illinois. clearly he was lying. http://www.nysun.com/national/obama-facing-attacks-from-all-sides-over-abortion/84059/
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ok, now you know the background. I will never understand how anyone could not be against killing a child that is born alive. It is, quite simply, murder. there is no debating this. Yet Barack Obama couldn’t even support defining a living, breathing baby as human. I’m beginning to wonder if i could support any legislation that defined Obama as human.
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I realize abortion is a difficult subject but really it comes down to one issue-when does life begin. here’s what I wrote shortly after the supreme court upheld partial birth abortion bans in April of 2007.
normal gestation is 39 weeks. so….
a baby is said to be viable outside the womb as early as 23 weeks in, and a baby can draw a breath for up to an hour at the 20th week. since the partial birth abortion ruling is dealing with a procedure that is generally used after the 21st week, its pretty safe to say that constitutionally the court made a good decision. The unborn child has as much rights as the mother at this stage..that and the procedure itself is grossly inhuman anyway…(google D&E).
so one can’t really argue against the 23rd week mark…but how far back can we go?
Babies can feel pain beginning with the 9th week.
at the 8th week all of the baby’s major organs are present.
at the 6th week (just 42 days) brainwaves can be detected. (death is often defined as the loss of brain activity…a lot of abortions sadly occur at this point)
at just 2 1/2 short weeks (18 days) the babies heartbeat begins (this is big because a lot of women don’t even realize they are pregnant until the 4th week)
Mayo Clinic Fetal Development:1st Trimester
the real kicker to all of this is that when roe v wade was decided we did not have the technology to know a good number of these dates and we certainly did not have intimate knowledge of DNA. We now know, at the moment of conception, that the zygote has a completely different DNA structure from that of the mother…it is a totally unique being. Numerous world-renown geneticists have argued that this is the greatest case for life at conception. If this kind of information were around back in the early 70s..its doubtful roe/wade would have ever come to pass.
So…basically if we give the “right” to choose, when do you believe you’ve robbed another human of their rights? This is the debate.
if you care to keep reading…I have a response to the “back-alley abortion arguement”. In 1972, one year before roe/wade, only 39 women died due to illegal abortions out of an estimated 100,000 abortions (this stat is from the National Center of Health Statistics and was used in 1981 Senate hearings–this is amazing because pro-abortion people were claiming 5-10,000 illegal abortion deaths at the time of roe/wade. they out and out lied and have since admitted as much). Planned Parenthood itself wrote this in 1960: “90% of illegal abortions are being done by physicians. Call them what you will, abortionists or anything else, they are still physicians, trained as such;… They must do a pretty good job if the death rate is as low as it is…Abortion, whether therapeutic or illegal, is in the main no longer dangerous because it is being done well by physicians” That was in 1960!!
hey, everyone has their own opinion, i won’t look down on anyone one way or another and i certainly don’t look at anyone as horrible and God-less, but i believe it reasonable to ask people to use some self control and countless free birth control methods in order to save nearly 1.6 million lives a year in the U.S. alone-due mostly to inconvenience/irresponsibility (97% of abortions have nothing to due with the health of the mother).
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It is my hope that the gross misinterpretation of the constitution that is roe v. wade is overturned and states can once again decide if they want to allow abortion.
one last thing….for any pro-abortion mother who gets pregnant….on what day do you feel your unborn child becomes human? I would love to know if mothers can tell.
