Anti-Abortion 527 Launches Anti-Obama TV Ad

The Born Alive infant Protection Act (BAIPA) law was necessary because, especially during late-term abortions, some of those babies slated for execution are instead born alive. In the past these abortion survivors have been callously thrown into trash cans, where they died.

When a bill almost identical to the one Barack fought in Illinois, the Born Alive Infants Protection Act, came to the floor of the U.S. Senate in 2001, the vote was 98 to 0 in favor. Barbara Boxer, the most pro-abortion member of the Senate before Barack came, spoke out on its behalf: "Of course, we believe everyone should deserve the protection of this bill. ... Who could be more vulnerable than a newborn baby? So, of course, we agree with that. ... We join with an 'aye' vote on this. I hope it will, in fact, be unanimous."

Obama insisted that the only reason that he had voted against the state version of BAIPA was that bill lacked the "neutrality clause" of the federal bill. Unfortunately for Obama, this turned out not to be true. In fact, the official record shows that a "neutrality clause" had earlier been added to the bill at his insistence, after which he then turned around and voted against BAIPA anyway. His claim that BAIPA lacked a "neutrality clause" and that he had voted against it for that reason was, at best, a memory lapse, at worse, a complete fabrication.This has all been exhaustively documented by the National Right to Life Committee, and later verified by FactCheck.org. The full details are available here.

Interesting fact: Norma McCorvey, the "Jane Roe" of Roe v. Wade is now a Roman Catholic and pro-life, anti-abortion. For excerpts from her book, "Won By Love" and summary of her conversion story---

Can anyone tell me why the women posting are literally ranting and raving pro and con whether or not to abort, whether or not an unsuccessfully aborted baby should be given medical treatment? In a country where EVERY CONCEIVABLE BIRTH CONTROL PRODUCT IN THE WORLD IS AVAILABLE (in many cases, free of charge) AND VASECTOMIES ARE AVAILABLE FOR MALES, why is this debate even necessary? IS IT CONCEIVABLE THAT MANY WOMEN ARE USING ABORTION AS A MEANS OF BIRTH CONTROL, AND IF SO, WHY? I suspect I won't receive any answers, but one can hope, can't one?

Funny how the gentle and kind hearted Liberals (ha ha) can't handle the truth. You mention them killing babies and they go crazy. They rationalize and accuse anyone who points out the plain truth. Obama has a clear record on this as well as wanting to raise taxes and infringe on the 2nd amendement. But this week he denied those also. Personal Giving and God or also on their short list but Obama will act like Jesus best fried for a few months.

Why is it that 99% of "pro-lifers" support the death penalty, despite the fact that if flies in the face of the teaching of Christ? Why is it that 99% of "pro-lifers" supported the Iraq War and the continued deaths of over 100,000 Iraqis and over 4,100 Americans? Why is it that 99% of pro-lifers avidly, passionately support human torture as an American policy? Why is is that 99% of pro-lifers reject the life-giving possibilities of stem cell research? Why is it that 99% of pro-lifers, on policy after policy after policy, are pro-death?

For anyone doubting Gianna Jessen's story, you should know she just didn't make up this claim since the Democratic convention. If you look, her name brings up over 42,000 hits on Google. She has been a well-known pro-life activist for years. Media outlets have covered her story. As her Wikipedia entry says, she has testified before Congress and Britain's House of Commons, and after her testimony in regards to the Born Alive Infants Protection Act, she was invited to attend the signing of the bill, as the White House web site notes.

ALL THE DEMS AND REPUBLICANS ON THIS SITE SHOULD STOP THE HATE.

TALK ALL YOU WANT THAT IS WHAT OUR TROOPS HAVE FOUGHT FOR SINCE AMERICA WAS BORN. THEY FIGHT FOR US.

VOTE FOR AMERICA
THROW GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS OUT..... GOVERNMENT FOR THE PEOPLE BY THE PEOPLE...

This is just ridiculous. I cannot believe what some people are willing to swallow.
Obama was in good company opposing the Ill Born Alive legislation. Including the Illinois Medical Association. How can that be? Could it be that it had nothing to do with saving preemies? If the anti extremists didn't believe that it was an incremental encroachment upon Roe V Wade, they wouldn't give a rat's patooty about the legislation.
Giana Jesson? Please! She has that former part time nurse and raving anti-abortion extremist post a copy of her adoptive birth certificate and and an unsigned, unofficial piece of paper with 'born during saline abortion' typed on it and that's supposed to be some kind of proof of Gianna's story? Come on! She may have been born too soon but I wasn't born yesterday.

BKMC: People have lost their homes because of their own destruction. They did it to themselves. Don't blame the president. You don't buy what you can't afford and young people today that buy condo's and homes with no money down or 5 to 10% down cannot pay the mortgage later because circumstances arrive. The mortgage companies whould refuse the loan unless they have 35 to 40% down. There are numerous foreclosures and the mortgage houses and banks are suffering. The same way with food, you buy what you can afford if you don't have a big income as long as your eating every day. Biting off more than you can chew only puts you into chapter 11.

KayJL: No one should have a late term abortion because they should abort at all. Women like the sex but don't like the pregnancy that can goes with it. They are the cause of their own destrucion. At the time I had my children, they were born in a catholic hospital and their belief was it was a choice between life and death of the baby or mother, the catholic hospital said the babies life was more important. Today no one cares one way or another.

Past: If a young girl is pregnant she should have the baby and not abort it. They should not have had sex in the first place and that would not have happened. Don't blame the baby. Jesus loves all the little children of the world and that includes the child that is about to be born.

The story by Jill Stanek has been proven a fraud. The Illinois Department of Public Health investigated her claims and found nothing to substantiate them

This is a personal decision and no ones but the person who has to make the choice for their body and their mind. God gives us free will, why can people let people live their own lives? Are the people better than God and his free will? Are you going to support that woman and her child? Are you going to feed them, cloth them and house them? Do you even know who they are? Before you try to make decisions for people you don't know, have seen , will never know or will never see, you should worry about the corpes in your own closet! You hippocrite, take that plank out of your own eye before you worry about mine! People need to live their own lives and leave others to live theirs. Everyone has so much to say about the sin of abortion but what about fornication what gets one pregnant in the first place? Sex out of wedlock? Children born out of wedlock (ie Palen's daughter)! Hello! People, mind your own business because I am sure you are not sin free, if you are cast the first stone and let God strike you down quick fast and in one big hurry!

"Under your reasoning, the answer to suffering children is to kill them. Sort of like the argument that leads to there is no God because bad things happen, which leads straight to Nietsche, which leads to any means to justify the end and ultimately it is the law of the jungle.

No wonder they bound you."

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We are leaving 30,000 babies to die of malnutrition daily. Where is your outrage and compassion for them? Is it because they are not Americans. Well there are starving American children everyday. I cannot speak to those particualr incidents of inividuals who left babies to die but do use some common sense and stop claiming that anyone wishing to be elected to our highest office would legislate the death of a baby. Isn't more accurate to say that a decision was made to allow nature to take its course if and when there is nothing modern medicine can do? Isn't that what is being done to those who are on life support.

My coach used to have a saying "when you are unable to dazzle them with finess baffle them with bs. That seems to be the new approach of the neocon.

If you don't know which side to believe in this debate, then check out FactCheck.org -- a nonpartisan website that fact checks statements by Obama and McCain.

Obama did vote against the bill in Illinois he has said all he would have supported.

He has said in recent years that he would have supported a bill that included language explicitly stating that it wouldn't weaken Roe.

But given that chance, Obama STILL voted against it.

I read a good summary article about it here:
http://www.bpnews.net/bpnews.asp?id=28732

Geebus, these people are stupid.

The legislation at issue was brand new and specially contrived by the anti-abortion movement. In other words, this woman - assuming her story is true - did not have any protection from the law Obama voted against, and yes, she survived anyway.

That was precisely Obama's point. It's already illegal to kill babies, period (although unfortunately, there's no law to stop them from whining and lying about everything).

I live in Illinois, and I remember this legislation. Existing legislation covers the event of a baby born alive in a late-term abortion. A baby is to be given medical help. The sponsors of this legislation purposely wrote it to try to overturn Roe v. Wade (to force it to be reviewed by the Illinois Supreme Court and hopefully the U.S. Supreme Court). I want to repeat, the issue was not that babies should not be medically treated if born alive. That issue was already covered by existing legislation (babies once they leave the womb are not fetuses and receive medical treatment).

Are these the same nuts that were screaming to keep Terri Schiavo suffering forever?

Y, actually the Democrats had control of the Senate during the first 2 years of President Bush's first term.

Prometheus, "nobody would let a live baby die?" That's exactly what was happening in Illinois hospitals, which was the reason for the Infants Born Alive Act. Jill Stanek, a nurse at Christ Hospital, witnessed a baby who survived abortion left to die in a broom closet and refused treatment. She held him for 45 minutes until he died, and then started publicizing this horrible status quo and advocating for change.

As for Jesson 'claiming' have survived a failed abortion- how about a little journalism? Gianna Jesson has been speaking to pro-life issues since she was about 17 years old. She's testified to her experience in many places (I believe Congress once)- in one such venue when she was a young girl speaking of her survival, pro-choice groups responded by shouting that she should have died, and it's too bad she didn't.

It's also unfortunate that journalists have not investigated, but have let stand Obama's dishonest claim that the state bill he voted against lacked the protection clause the similar federal legislation had. The truth is, Obama's own committee ADDED that language to the bill in committee, and he voted against it anyway.