Barack Obama & aborted babies left to die
This week the Democratic party made clear its total support of abortion on demand.
Gone is the “safe, legal and rare” rhetoric of the past few years and in is this:
“The Democratic Party strongly and unequivocally supports Roe v. Wade and a woman’s right to choose a safe and legal abortion, regardless of ability to pay, and we oppose any and all efforts to weaken or undermine that right.”
The presumptive Democratic presidential candidate, Barack Obama, clearly ultra liberal on the abortion issue — look at his Senate record — is surely pleased.
Less clear is whether the conflicted electorate will be.
And now, as of three days ago, we have new charges from the National Right to Life organization about candidate Obama’s abortion obfuscation as well as his well known abortion extremism.
NRL accuses Barack Obama of being a whole lot less than truthful when he defends his opposition — three times as an Illinois state senator — to a proposed Illinois state version of the popular federal Born Alive Infant Protection Act :
New documents just obtained by NRLC, and linked below, prove that Senator Obama has for the past four years blatantly misrepresented his actions on the Illinois Born-Alive Infants Protection bill.
Summary and comment by NRLC spokesman Douglas Johnson: “Newly obtained documents prove that in 2003, Barack Obama, as chairman of an Illinois state Senate committee, voted down a bill to protect live-born survivors of abortion — even after the panel had amended the bill to contain verbatim language, copied from a federal bill passed by Congress without objection in 2002, explicitly foreclosing any impact on abortion.
Obama’s legislative actions in 2003 — denying effective protection even to babies born alive during abortions — were contrary to the position taken on the same language by even the most liberal members of Congress. The bill Obama killed was virtually identical to the federal bill that even NARAL ultimately did not oppose.”
…..The bill that Chairman Obama killed, as amended, was virtually identical to the federal law; the only remaining differences were on minor points of bill-drafting style. To see the language of the two bills side by side, click here.
As you delve into the history of Mr. Obama’s “reasoning” for refusing to protect these dying infants, you might become weary, as I do, of the minced words and split hairs that so often accompany his rhetoric. Nuancing this is not.
And if you have the stomach for it, listen to Jill Stanek, R.N. — also from Illinois — as she recounts watching these abandoned little ones left to die.
Sherry Tyree, 66, a graduate of John Burroughs School and Washington University, is a founding member (1984) and Vice President of Women for Faith & Family, a national Catholic women's organization that supports and defends traditional church teachings. Sherry is married to Dr. Donald A. Tyree, professor emeritus, School of Business, St. Louis University. 
This discussion is on the wrong page. The topic is not religious , it is Obama and that is a different page. Note blog title: Civil Religion ;This is a lame attempt at campaigning. Sad
Ms Tyree -
You have made your stance clear, as has Archbishop Burke. Pardon those of us who are not RCCA members if we want to choose our own fates without the input of either.
At best I see your attempt here yet more of the tired conservative RCCA longing for the “good old days” prior to Vatican 2.
Right-wing bottom feeders have been pushing the “Obama is a baby killer” theme for weeks now. It appears that Sherry Tyree is just another propagandist for the radical right. This kind of drivel does not belong on this blog. It is neither civil nor is it religion. The moderators of this blog should get control of it before it becomes just one more political mud slinging site. This kind of hate mongering should not be used against Obama or McCain. Only people who are too stupid to understand the issues rely on character assassination.
Barack Obama & aborted babies left to die…
The accusation is an outright lie that Ms. Sherry Tyree has fallen prey to.
This is an intentional lie that started with those who refer to them selves as the “Conservative Right”. Religious people have fallen for it.
Religious people is what is the problem with Christianity because it takes being spirit filled in order to posess the wisdom it takes to not fall victim to such lies as the ones that Republican pundits love throwing out there.
Furthermore,
Obama does not deny supporting abortions within the womb.
The wording in the bill is trickery just as “Missouri’s Mid-wife Bill.”
Furthermore the clause of the bill you are overlooking is the wording that can and will be used to deny abortions at any stage. I have capped for your attention and notice.
“nothing in this section shall be construed to DENY any legal status or legal right applicable to any member of the species homo sapiens at any point PRIOR TO BEING ‘BORN ALIVE’ as defined in this section.”
EXACT WORDING AS IN THE BILL BELOW: Item C
(The “neutrality” clause read, “Nothing in this section shall be construed to affirm, deny, expand, or contract any legal status or legal right applicable to any member of the species homo sapiens at any point prior to being ‘born alive’ as defined in this section.”)
Only a person lacking intellect would not be able to see that the very claus could cause all abortions to be illegal, kind of like the midwife situation that we had here in Missouri.
http://nrlc.org/ObamaBAIPA/2003AmendedILBAIPAandFedBAIPA.html
Ms Tyree writes “Gone is the “safe, legal and rare” rhetoric of the past few years and in is this”
Why is it gone? I think you will find that Obama and the Democratic Party in general still supports solid sex education and access to birth control—both items that go a long, long way in making abortion “safe, legal and rare”.
Ms Tyree, as usual, has gone beyond the provocative, civil thought that was the reason behind the finding of this blog and prints hacked, cherry picked quotes and surrounds it with extremely slanted words and rhetoric.
I will sit and wait for Ms Tyree’s takes on both candidates views on the death penalty.
suzyjax — so you would consider over 1 million abortions a year a rarity?
Regarding the death penalty, there is one difference. First, there are very few death sentences executed per year. Second, these are people who are guilty of heinous crimes. I don’t think you can bring this issue up since you support the killing of 1 million innocent lives a year.
D. Walker, you are really reaching here. You are twisting that language to mean something that it is not. That clause simply is stating that the coverage of the law is only when the baby has left the mother and that by not addressing the baby’s rights prior to the time, it is not implicitly forfeiting those rights.
What is your position on this proposed legislation? Would you have voted with Obama?
Why is this editorial on this page?!
Can we convert this all into a prayer: Please God, don’t allow all the extremely important decisions facing our country this November be reduced to an artificilly delineated “pro-life/pro-abortion” discussion!
As a pro-life Democrat(opposed not only to abortion, but to the death penalty, and as someone who believes that “true” pro-life persons work just as hard to take care of small people born into poverty..), I was sickened by all the hateful, oversimplified, and often ignorant “discussions” that characterized the last national election.
Again, please God, don’t let this happen again!