Yep, Obama voted against the "Born Alive Infant Protection Act" (Bill: SB1662)
The bill:
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1 AN ACT concerning infants who are born alive.
2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
4 Section 5. The Statute on Statutes is amended by adding
5 Section 1.36 as follows:
6 (5 ILCS 70/1.36 new)
7 Sec. 1.36. Born-alive infant.
8 (a) In determining the meaning of any statute or of any
9 rule, regulation, or interpretation of the various
10 administrative agencies of this State, the words "person",
11 "human being", "child", and "individual" include every infant
12 member of the species homo sapiens who is born alive at any
13 stage of development.
14 (b) As used in this Section, the term "born alive", with
15 respect to a member of the species homo sapiens, means the
16 complete expulsion or extraction from its mother of that
17 member, at any stage of development, who after that expulsion
18 or extraction breathes or has a beating heart, pulsation of
19 the umbilical cord, or definite movement of voluntary
20 muscles, regardless of whether the umbilical cord has been
21 cut and regardless of whether the expulsion or extraction
22 occurs as a result of natural or induced labor, cesarean
23 section, or induced abortion.
24 (c) A live child born as a result of an abortion shall
25 be fully recognized as a human person and accorded immediate
26 protection under the law.
27 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
28 becoming law.
http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/legisnet92/sbgroups/sb/920SB1662LV.html
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Obama's NO vote:
http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/votehistory/srollcalls92/920SB1662_04042002_014000T.pdf
Alan Keyes' Response:
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http://www.jillstanek.com/obama.jpg
Common Obama Supporter Defenses with me shooting it down:
First Obama Defense: But what about the health of the mother?
Me Shooting it Down: The "Born Alive Infant Protection Act" protects babies completely removed from the mother.
Second Obama Defense: But the federal and Illinois versions are slightly different
Me Shooting it Down: They both protect the life of a baby that is alive outside of the mother. Obama has chairperson of the Health & Human Services committee helped shoot down language that would have made the Illinois text match the federal text
Third Obama Defense: But this would lead to Roe v Wade being overturned!
Me Shooting it Down: Roe v Wade was about fetuses (not born), this act protects babies (born).
Fourth Obama Defense: But this never happens anyway
Me Shooting it Down: Wrong, it did happen --> http://judiciary.house.gov/Legacy/stan0720.htm
(http://judiciary.house.gov/Legacy/stan0720.htm)
Fifth Obama Defense: But the federal law superseded the state law
Me Shooting it Down: SB1662 was voted on BEFORE the federal law was passed
Sixth Obama Defense: But this is considered murder so this legislation was unnecessary.
Me Shooting it Down: "The Illinois Attorney General wrote to me that there was no basis for legal action by their office against Christ Hospital"
http://commdocs.house.gov/committees/judiciary/hju73696.000/hju73696_0.HTM
Seventh Obama Defense: But these babies would have died anyway
Me Shooting it Down: First of all why should they have to suffer? Second of all, our nurse testified that she held a baby with a non-fatal condition for 45 minutes before it died due to suffocation from under developed lungs. http://judiciary.house.gov/Legacy/stan0720.htm
Christ Hospital even admitted to aborting babies with non-fatal conditions like Down syndrome or spina bifida and under political pressure, decided to stop doing this.
http://www.mail-archive.com/ctrl@listserv.aol.com/msg75624.html
It then passed the US Senate 98-0.
Oh and of course, Obama was against partial birth abortion:
Partial Birth Abortion:
As you may recall a partial birth abortion is a late term abortion where the baby is "delivered". The legal description of a partial birth abortion is:
"An abortion in which the person performing the abortion, deliberately and intentionally vaginally delivers a living fetus until, in the case of a head-first presentation, the entire fetal head is outside the body of the mother, or, in the case of breech presentation, any part of the fetal trunk past the navel is outside the body of the mother, for the purpose of performing an overt act that the person knows will kill the partially delivered living fetus; and performs the overt act, other than completion of delivery, that kills the partially delivered living fetus. (18 U.S. Code 1531)"
Here is a diagram of a partial birth abortion:
http://777denny.files.wordpress.com/2007/04/partialbirthmurder.jpg
Barack Obama: Opposes banning partial birth abortion. (Oct 2007)
http://www.ontheissues.org/senate/Barack_Obama.htm
Why Jesus would not vote for Barack Obama (article with lots of facts)
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=51121
Michelle Obama's letter (http://www.prolifeblogs.com/articles/archives/2006/10/post_5.php) to constituents asking for support to stop the partial birth abortion ban.
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