Obama's Abortion Distortion

Barack Obama worked tirelessly to stop a state version of a law that would protect babies born alive -- and for several years he's been lying about being open to establishing civil rights for newborns if the legislation contained wording that would protect abortion rights.  In 2003, he stopped in a Senate committee a version that met that criteria. 

Last week Illinois Senate Committee documents were discovered that proves the six members of the 2003-2004 Human Services Committee's Democratic State Senators -- Obama, Vice-Chairman Mattie Hunter, Maggie Crotty, Jeff Schoenberg, Susan Garrett, and Carol Ronen -- all voted no in committee on that year's SB 1082, making the six of them the most radical pro-abortion legislators in America.  More so than Hillary Clinton and Barbara Boxer, who voted "yes" on the federal version.  In today's Weekly Standard:

A spokesman for Democratic state senator Mattie Hunter, the vice chairman of the committee, says that the Hunter voted "no" so that the Republican sponsor of the bill could work on it more. Democratic senator Susan Garrett had forgotten about the amended language in the bill, but when reminded of it she thought she might have voted "no" because "it gets into the quagmire of abortion." Planned Parenthood lobbyist Pam Sutherland believes that the Democrats pre-empted the Republicans by killing the bill. She says the "Born-Alive Infants Protection Act" was part of a bundle of three bills, and that the sponsors wanted "all three or nothing." However, the committee voted down the act independent of any other bill.

Christine Radogno, a Republican senator who voted for the act during the 2003 committee hearing, thinks that the Democrats killed the bill for political reasons. "Anything promoted by pro-life groups, the pro-choice Democrats just wouldn't be for it," she says. "They just didn't want to give the pro-life groups a victory."

Link: Obama's Abortion Distortion.