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Obama supporters please justify...?

...why did Obama vote against the Induced Infant Liability Act, which would have protected babies that survived late-term abortions.

[At the end of the hearing, according to the official records of the Illinois State senate, Obama thanked Stanek for being “very clear and forthright,” but said his concern was that Stanek had suggested “doctors really don’t care about children who are being born with a reasonable prospect of life because they are so locked into their pro-abortion views that they would watch an infant that is viable die.” He told her, “That may be your assessment, and I don’t see any evidence of that. What we are doing here is to create one more burden on a woman and I can’t support that.”]

Does this mean a woman can kill her children because they create a burdren on her? I am just curious.

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=18647

Update:

I still have not heard any of you Obama supporters tell me why infanticide is ok. I have heard a lot of sorry excuses though.

Update 2:

On top of all of this this is not an abortion issue. This is POST birth. Unless you are one of those crazy people who think abortion rights should be extended to 5 months post birth.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    Yes, he believes that a women has a right to murder a baby if it would be inconvenient for her to raise it. And people want that evil man as president. It's disgusting.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    I am amazed that an abortion can be "botched: or done so incorrectly that the baby survives - that cant be good...I dont even want to think of the trauma involved with that....BUT...it does seem a tad inhumane to birth a live ( injured ) baby & not have anyone care for it....if the mom doesnt have a change of heart why not put the kid in the ICU & then off to the adoption centers ( if the kid can recover ) .

    My guess is that a botched abortion means that the kid is barely alive - maybe to close to death to bring them back to a livable existence....its a hard call.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    I have no justification.

    The abortion debate is a long and at times passionate one.

    If one can morally equivocate,

    keep in mind that the Bush's are responsible for the deaths of many babies

    ---and even more non-natal persons,

    and McCain,

    whom I understand is not really much of a pro-lifer,

    is apt to campaign vigorously for support for the same debacle.

    Also your use of the expression "late-term abortions"

    implies---I'm sure erroneously---a disregard for those pre-born that aren't so late term---such as zygotes.

    This Chuck Baldwin of the constitutionalists Party might be to your liking.

    United States presidential election, 2008

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_preside...

    Chuck Baldwin

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Baldwin

  • bubsir
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago

    What I know is that the current law is a compromise. What you quoted is out of context, but clearly there are many people who believe that any fertilized egg is a human with all rights given in the constitution. Others feel that only once a fetus is surviving on it's own does it gain rights. The specific area your question discusses is on the fringe and is far more complicated (in terms of law) than you make it out to be.

    Hence let us accept that Obama is Pro Choice. For some that makes him un-acceptable as President.

    Source(s): Obama '08
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  • 1 decade ago

    Because he is Pro-Choice Like for a Woman to choice whether to have an Abortion or not, The child won't be born and If he/she is The Mother can get away with Murder, Abortion is one thing but Murder is something you shouldn't be supporting.

  • 1 decade ago

    Sorry you didn't get an answer to your question from an Obama supporter, just rants like Fanatics & Kingskid, that's the problem, they couldn't debate you on the issue of letting a baby that survives an abortion die, at that moment the mother lost her choice so they just throw in a rant. Find that a lot with Obama followers.

  • 1 decade ago

    Amazing that all you get is platitudes for answers from the Obama fans.

    Late term botched abortions are an abomination in every sense of the word. Anyone that supports them are not fit to be a leader of anything. Obama thinks that children are a burden as demonstrated by your quote and the now famous I wouldn't want my daughter punished with a baby.

    Lay off the kool-aid kids and maybe you'll look past the shiny veneer of Obama and see him for what he is.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Anti abortion whackos create phony time consuming garbage legislation over a nonexistent problem . There are ALREADY LAWS AGAINST HOMICIDE AND MANSLAUGHTER!

    Jill Stanek is a lying psycho scum who has never witnessed born alive abortions (perhaps one, but that's giving a benefit of a doubt) , a shame you don't post the links showing that Obama was correct, so here is one explaining the details: http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/blog/2008/03/25/when...

    BTW, don't you think there would be more than that cretin Jill Stanek testifying and describing born alive botched abortions if they were occurring at any frequency? But conservatives could care less about logic when they spew hatred and lies. It's a shame Obama didn't forthrightly state he didn't think Stanek's testimony wasn't credible as well as uncorroborated, perhaps he wanted to side step the liars and whackos who attack him if he said Stanek was full of it.

    That's answers your question, as if you care. Thank you for bringing to my attention another reason why I should support Obama.

  • ?
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

    bear in concepts many senators voted for the conflict in accordance with suggestions obtainable, and then regretted their vote whilst that suggestions became discovered to be unfaithful. Senator Biden is a competent determination for vice president. His %. additionally teach that Senator Obama do no longer want a "definite" individual to rubber stamp his proposals.

  • 1 decade ago

    Actually, Obama said for physical conditions and not mental conditions. So it does not mean a woman can kill her children because they create a burden on her.

    But it's all on the parents. Laws can be given all they want. They may allow abortions but you don't have to abort your kids. They can allow for guns in the home but you don't have to put one in your home. It's all up to the individuals on what they will do.

    Plus, Obama is the only one best suited to justify his vote. He knows why he did it.

  • 1 decade ago

    Because it effectively criminalized abortion by defining the fetus as a person. Thus, any doctor involved in such a procedure could theoretically be charged with murder, and the mother's with aiding murder.

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