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Infanticide is a disgusting, cruel, revolting inhuman act that not even Obama’s staunchest supports can defend - it is indefensible -but, it is true. Obama does in fact support infanticide.

What is infanticide? It is the killing of babies.

There is an abortion procedure called “induced labor abortion.” This is not the same as a partial birth abortion. In induced labor abortion medicine is inserted into the mother in order to make her cervix dilate. Once dilated the baby will deliver. It is assumed the baby will die during the course of delivery. However, 10 to 20% of babies survive this procedure. Some live for a few minutes. Others have lived up to 8 hours without any medical intervention.

When a bill was presented in Illinois to provide medical care for these babies who survive these botched abortions Obama voted “no,” - not once, not twice, not three times but four times- four times Obama voted to not provide any medical treatment to these surviving babies because it would possibly make the mother rethink her decision to abort in the first place. Never mind that once that baby is out of the mothers womb it is no longer a threat to the life of the mother.

Watch these videos and see his actual voting record below and click HERE to hear Obama’s arguement against medical intervention for babies who survive this horrid act

“I suspect that doctors feel that they would be under that obligation, that they would already be making these determinations, and that essentially adding an additional doctor, who then has to be called in an emergency situation to come in and make these assessments, is really designed simply to burden the original decision of the woman and the physician to induce labor and perform an abortion.”

Hear his words, see his record, then you decide who lies and who offends. Despite our views on abortion, certainly we can all agree that babies who survive botched abortions are deserving of medical care. Why doesn’t Obama and why does he lie about his own record?

View Senator Obama’s Actual Voting Record

As an Illinois State Senator, Barack Obama opposed the Illinois Born Alive Infants Protection Act. The legislation defined any infant born alive as a “person” who deserves full legal protection.

The Illinois Born Alive Infants Protection Act was modeled after the federal version, with the identical definition of “born alive.” The World Health Organization created this definition in 1950. The United Nations adopted it in 1955.

Obama actively opposed the legislation in the Illinois State Senate. In 2001, he voted no in committee, spoke against it on the Senate floor, and voted present on the floor. In 2002, he voted no in committee, spoke against it on the Senate floor, and voted no on the floor. Obama was the sole senator to ever speak against it on the Senate floor.

The U.S. Senate passed the federal bill unanimously, with Senators Barbara Boxer and Ted Kennedy speaking in support of it.

The pro-abortion group NARAL expressed neutrality on the federal bill. On August 5, 2002, President George W. Bush signed it into law.

For four years Obama has said he would have supported the federal version, but that simply isn’t true. In 2003, as chairman of the Illinois Senate’s Health and Human Services Committee, Obama voted yes on an amendment that made the Illinois version identical to the federal one. However, he then voted no on the amended bill.

(Note the first vote under “DP#1” or “Do Pass Amendment #1” was to allow the amendment to be added, making this bill identical to the federal Born Alive bill. The second vote under “DPA” or “Do Pass as Amended” was on the bill as amended. Obama voted to amend the bill and then voted against the amended bill.)

View the Republican State Senate Staff analysis here.

Click here to see a comparison of the final federal version of Born Alive and the 2003 IL version Obama opposed.

I hope all of my links are inserted correctly. To see the original and learn more, please visit Born Alive Truth for Obama’s full record.