Obama and 4th Trimester abortions

I don’t wade into the abortion issue often, because sometimes it’s just too murky. Simply put, I think all abortions are wrong, not on any religious grounds, but just because our natural instinct for survival just contradicts the practice. Killing people who’ve never done anything to anyone just doesn’t make sense and it’s immoral. Neither do I think governments should force me to pay for abortions. For the record, I oppose the death penalty, too, just because I don’t think the government should be killing people.

Barack Obama has claimed that he will bring to us a new sort of politics, away from the politics of special interests, the old politics of pandering. Yet, in 2003, he voted in the Illinois legislature against the protection of babies who happened to survive an abortionists best efforts to kill them. Initially, he claimed that he did that just to protect Roe v. Wade. From Hot Air;

Obama initially said he voted against the 2003 bill protecting born-alive aborted fetuses only because it would have threatened abortion rights due to its lack of a “neutrality” clause vis-a-vis Roe v. Wade. Minor problem: The bill did include that clause and State Sen. Obama was one of the committee members who made sure that it did — before he voted against it anyway.

So, now that he has talked himself into a corner, and he’s been caught in yet another lie, Obama has pulled out the “offended” defense (CNS News);

The suggestion that Obama – the proud father of two little girls – and others who opposed these bills supported infanticide is deeply offensive and insulting.  There is no room for these kinds of distortions and lies in this campaign.

“Distortions and lies?” Give me a chance to defend an innocent life and see often I vote. So now Obama is trying to wriggle his way out of the “baby killer” label. From Ace of Spades;

Read his new “fact check:” He’s claiming he supported the federal law (in theory; he didn’t have to vote on it) because federal law does not actually have any effect on state abortion law, and opposed the identical state version, because state laws can affect, um, state laws.

So as far as the law is just a theoretical protection for children, he’ll vote for it. His daughters better thank their lucky stars they survived that sort of logic.  But, of course, the law is for us bitter people, not for the elite snobs with whom Obama associates. Their children are our eventual salvation, while our children are just dregs who are just a toss into the closet away from death anyway.

Slublog wonders how this isn’t just politics as usual;

 Voting to allow the killing of living, breathing babies is voting in favor of infanticide. I do not believe Obama is evil, but with this vote he was willing to allow evil for the sake of political expediency. Is that what he means by judgment we can trust?

Apparently, the only special interests we’re supposed to avoid are those special interests that have a conservative agenda. I guess the best way to get NARAL’s 100% rating is to vote for abortions in the 4th trimester.

Category: Barack Obama/Joe Biden, Politics, Society