So, instead of having any abortion at any time for any reason -- Obama's previous position -- he has in fact clarified today that there are some abortions he can't stomach. These would include where the child, who is viable outside the womb, has a knife stabbed into the back of her skull and her brains sucked out (without anethesia of course, because she is not a "real" person, only tissue), because the mother was feeling overwhelmed by the situation. How liberal of Obama to spare the life of 0.01% of children scheduled to be aborted.
Yet Obama maintains that he opposes giving treatment to those children who are born alive following a botched abortion. From the press today:
-- In the interview with Relevant, conducted on Tuesday, Obama also defended his opposition to restrictions on induced abortions where the fetus sometimes survives for short periods. Obama voted against such a bill when he was in the Illinois Senate. He has said he supported a federal version of the law that contained more specific language because he feared the Illinois proposal would have applied to all abortions.
"There was a bill that came up in Illinois that was called the 'Born Alive' bill that purported to require life-saving treatment to such infants. And I did vote against that bill," Obama said Tuesday. "The reason was that there was already a law in place in Illinois that said that you always have to supply life-saving treatment to any infant under any circumstances, and this bill actually was designed to overturn Roe v. Wade, so I didn't think it was going to pass constitutional muster."
Legal abortion has no place inside the truly liberal heart, which finds room for both the mother and the child.
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