Shocking Audio: Barack Obama argues against giving medical care to babies born alive after botched abortions
Barack Obama and the Democrats have spent the past several days blasting Republicans for “extreme” views on abortion. But is this a fight they really want to have? Considering President Obama’s deplorable record on protecting infant life (yes, outside the womb), Democrats might want to think twice.
Let me first offer a little background on what is happening in this audio. When Barack Obama was a state senator in Illinois, a nurse named Jill Stanek blew the whistle on hospitals on Illinois that were allowing babies who were born alive after botched abortion procedures to be discarded in linen closets until they died of neglect and complications from the procedure. Stanek testified before the Illinois Senate (and later the United States Congress) and described sitting in a closet, holding a baby until it died because doctors refused to treat the newborn.
Here’s a little bit from Stanek’s testimony before Congress:
One night, a nursing co-worker was taking an aborted Down’s syndrome baby who was born alive to our Soiled Utility Room because his parents did not want to hold him and she did not have time to hold him. I could not bear the thought of this suffering child dying alone in a Soiled Utility Room, so I cradled and rocked him for the 45 minutes that he lived. He was about 22 weeks old, weighed about a half a pound, and was about 10 inches long, about the size of my hand. He was too weak to move very much, expending any energy that he had trying to breathe. Toward the end of his life he was so quiet that I couldn’t tell if he was still alive unless I held him up to the light to see if his little heart was still beating through his chest wall. After he was pronounced dead, we folded his little arms across his chest, tied his hands together with a string, wrapped him in a tiny shroud, and carried him to the hospital morgue where all of our other dead patients go.
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As a result of Stanek’s testimony, a bill moved forward in the Illinois legislature known as the Born Alive Infants Protection Act which would mandate that doctors give all infants born alive the necessary medical care to live.
State Senator Obama blocked the legislation three times as it came up for votes in the Illinois Senate, arguing that abortion doctors should be allowed to deny life saving treatment to live infants outside the womb.
Here is audio of some of Obama’s testimony:
As you can hear, Obama refers to the baby multiple times as “child,” “live child,” and “children who are being born alive,” indicating that he knew very well the bill pertained to living babies outside the womb. Yet Obama argued solely on the behalf of the abortionist performing the procedure, concerned only with the physician’s liability rather than the death of a “live child.”
To add further context, after the Born Alive Infants Protection Act failed in Illinois, Jill Stanek took her testimony to Capitol Hill and spoke before the House of Representatives. Eventually, on the Federal level, the law to protect babies born alive was passed unanimously by the US Senate.
Think about that for a moment. On the Federal level, every single member of the United States Senate voted in favor of the Born Alive Infants Protection Act. Ted Kennedy voted for it. Hillary Clinton voted for it. Harry Reid voted for it. Barbera Boxer voted for it. Everyone.
Yet, in Illinois, Barack Obama blocked the same legislation three times. Why could Barack Obama not agree with every liberal member of the US Senate? President Obama’s views on abortion are so radical and extreme that he voted three times in favor of infanticide: the killing of babies outside the womb.
If the Obama campaign and Democrats want to have a debate about abortion, let’s have it. Let’s put all the cards on the table and see whose side the American people are on.
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