In a Southern Illinoisan story today about Obama's liberal voting record while in the Illinois Senate, Obama's spokesman Robert Gibbs either ignorantly or purposely confuses Obama's crusade against protecting the civil rights of babies born alive.
For the records, a baby is a "fetus" until she leaves her mother's body. Immediately upon birth, she is a "human baby," and should have the same rights any other American has.
Barack Obama spoke in committee and on Illinois' Senate floor against treating BABIES as humans if they were born alive.
Gibbs' absurd assertion that every abortion would have been criminalized with the enactment of a state Born Alive Infant Protection Act is a bold-faced lie. If that were true, the federal version of the legislation would have been thrown out upon signing in 2002. Instead, the law passed constitutional muster and is in effect today. And so is a state version . . . since Obama left Illinois.
By opposing the BAIPA while in Illinois, Barack Obama simply showed he does not believe BABIES have civil rights, and for that matter, neither do human "fetuses."
Link: :: TheSouthern.com - The Southern Illinoisan ::.
On abortion, Obama voted against a measure designed to protect what supporters termed live babies born during abortion procedures.
Senate opponent Alan Keyes criticized Obama for the vote during their 2004 campaign. Gibbs said the legislation, which was defeated, defined a fetus as a person and "would have criminalized every abortion."
Cross-posted at IR's Obama Watch 2007
