Obama is radically pro-abortion

Whenever I discuss the abortion issue with people, no matter what political affiliation or whether they are pro-life or pro-choice, we can almost always agree on some basic things. Everyone I talk to is for parental notification for minors, a 24 hour waiting period before having an abortion, informed consent, and against partial birth abortion.

These are reasonable restrictions that have certainly helped reduce the number of abortions in this country and everyone agrees that is a good thing.

But Barack Obama agrees with none of these things. And he goes even further. If a baby is born alive during an abortion (like this one did), he is against helping that child to live. In 2002, as an Illinois legislator, Obama voted against the Induced Infant Liability Act, which would have protected babies that survived late-term abortions. Babies born alive should be left to die in Obama's opinion. Why? Because he didn't want to cede ground to us crazy pro-lifers:

He warned: "Whenever we define a pre-viable fetus as a person that is protected by the Equal Protection Clause or the other elements in the Constitution, what we're really saying is, in fact, that they are persons that are entitled to the kinds of protections that would be provided to a . . . a child -- a nine-month-old child that was delivered to term.

Get this. Even NARAL (National Abortion Rights Action League) didn't oppose this bill to protect babies born alive. Obama is more pro-abortion than NARAL??

From Human Events:

Jill Stanek, a registered delivery-ward nurse who was the prime mover behind the legislation after she witnessed aborted babies' being born alive and left to die, testified twice before Obama in support of the Induced Infant Liability Act bills. She also testified before the U.S. Congress in support of the Born Alive Infant Protection Act.

Stanek told me her testimony "did not faze" Obama.

In the second hearing, Stanek said, "I brought pictures in and presented them to the committee of very premature babies from my neonatal resuscitation book from the American Pediatric Association, trying to show them unwanted babies were being cast aside. Babies the same age were being treated if they were wanted!"

"And those pictures didn't faze him [Obama] at all," she said.

And if that isn't bad enough:

As a senator, Obama has opposed measures to criminalize those who transport minors across state lines for the purpose of obtaining an abortion.

At a townhall meeting in Ottawa, Ill., Joanne Resendiz, a teacher and mother of five, asked him: "How are you going to vote on this, keeping in mind that 10, 15 years down the line your daughters, God forbid, could be transported across state lines?"

Obama said: "The decision generally is one that a woman should make."

Yeah, but this is the thing Mr. Obama, minors aren't women yet. They are still children and they shouldn't be intimidated by boyfriends to have abortions and be taken across state lines so the girl's parents won't find out she is having surgery!

I did not know that Obama had such a radical view of abortion. I realize that many don't want abortion completely outlawed. But I always felt hope that there were things we could all agree that would reduce abortions and the agony of women.

It doesn't look like Obama would agree to any of those things.