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Authors, sign in!John Pyle, Ellis Co. Kansas Republican chair, accused Barack Obama as one "who thinks it's OK to let a new born baby die on a table rather than give it medical attention." Either Pyle unwittingly misrepresented the truth, or he lied.
In 2004 as an Illinois state senator, Obama voted with others in committee against Senate Bill 1082. The bill included a passage guaranteeing right to life of a viable fetus which had somehow survived an abortion procedure. The bill failed 6-4, with one abstention. Now, please read the rest of the story.
Existing Illinois law since 1975 (720 ILCS 510/6) already required that abortion procedures mandate an additional physician present, qualified to handle cases of unexpected live-birth. That physician was required to "exercise the same degree of professional skill, care and diligence to preserve the life and health of the child as would be required of a physician providing immediate medical care to a child born alive in the course of a pregnancy termination which was not an abortion." In Illinois, violation of 720 ILCS 510/6 was and is a felony.
You can read the full text at ilga.gov/legislation/ilcs/documents/072005100K6.htm.
Obama says his concern was that the new bill posed a threat to weaken Roe v. Wade. It is legitimate to question his interpretation of SB 1082 but not to accuse him of "voting to kill children." A reasonable conclusion is that the new bill had an additional motive to which Sen. Obama and others objected.
Had he been so callous as Pyle charges, Obama would more logically have worked to dismantle 720 ILCS 510/6 already in force. He didn't. Pyle should apologize.
Published October 27, 2008 by Bob Hooper |
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