Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Obama and Abortion

Continuing from my last post, here's some not so fun facts about Obama and the abortion issue:

  1. When Obama said abortions haven't gone down over the last 8 years with a pro-life president, Obama flat out lied. Here's the facts- http://www.factcheck.org/article330.html . At least Obama is not alone in this flat out lie, Howard Dean, John Kerry, and Hillary Clinton spewed these lies as well. Birds in a feather flock together, liberals?
  2. Obama opposed the Born-Alive Infants Protection Act- When an abortion goes wrong and the child survives, he doesn’t want medicine so the baby can’t feel the pain. This, Obama concedes, would be admitting that it’s a child, not a fetus.
    Obama, as an Illinois state senator, opposed legislation that would protect babies born alive in botched abortion attempts. He explained, “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.”
  3. Obama says he doesn’t want his daughters “punished” by a baby if they make a mistake.
  4. In February 2004, his wife, Michelle, sent out a fundraising letter, which actually stated her concern over the rise of conservatism in the Country, and that the ‘so-called’ partial-birth abortion was a legitimate medical procedure that should be protected.
  5. Voted no on notifying parents of minors having out of state abortions.
  6. Supports Partial Birth Abortion act, just as his wife does above. Here's the gruesome procedure: Guided by ultrasound, the abortionist grabs the baby's leg with forceps;The baby's leg is pulled out into the birth canal; The abortionist delivers the baby's entire body, except for the head; The abortionist jams scissors into the baby's skull. The scissors are then opened to enlarge the hole; The scissors are removed and a suction catheter is inserted. The child's brains are sucked out, causing the skull to collapse. The dead baby is then removed.

Personal note: Sorry about the details on Partial Birth Abortion, but if the story isn't told, people won't know what really happens in this barbaric procedure.