Posted by
Always To The Right on Monday, August 18, 2008 8:15:38 AM
Russell Berman reports in the New York Sun
that the Barack Obama campaign has acknowledged that Obama himself lied
about the bill he torpedoed in 2003 that would have required medical
providers to give normal medical attention to infants born alive during
an abortion. The admission comes with a new spin, as the campaign
finally admits that the bill Obama defeated in committee was all but
identical to the federal law that passed the Senate unanimously in 2002
In this version, Obama finally acknowledges that the bill he shot down
as committee chair had the neutrality clause, but now he voted against
it because it would have had some deleterious effect on abortion law.
As the NRLC points out to Berman, that’s flat-out untrue. The
neutrality clause Obama now acknowledge existed in the law explicitly
stated that the law had no intent on affecting abortions in which the
fetus did not survive; that was the entire point of the
neutrality clause. Even without it, in the language of the original
bill, the law clearlt stated that it only applied to infants born alive.
If child abuse is an evil that must be confronted, then infanticide
is even more evil. What did Obama do when he saw this evil? Did he
confront it, as one of God’s soldiers? Or did he facilitate it?
The answer now from the Obama campaign is clear. Obama facilitated
evil in order to protect abortion on demand, which was never threatened
by S.1082 in the first place. That much apparently wasn’t above his
pay grade.