[Vision2020] Obama Does Not Support Infanticide

[keely emerinemix]

Nick, this is important information and, as someone who differs with you on abortion, I thank you for posting it.

I do believe that the fetus is a person, or at least a potential person, and I wish abortion never occurred.  However, I refuse to call women who choose abortion "murderers," nor would I countenance the support for existing law pertaining to aborted fetuses a reflection of "support for infanticide."  Further, any law against early term abortion makes me, a woman who has experienced miscarriage, extremely concerned.  Beyond that, any attempt to link Barack Obama, who has a temperate and reasonable view on the subject, to out-of-the-mainstream whackos is unfair and unbecoming those Christians who attempt to do so.  

Good people differ on when the fetus is a person.  Good people do not differ from, say, the mainstream and moral, reasonable and obvious, conclusion that southern slavery was an abomination against those Black men, women, and children who were thus enslaved.

I continue to be astonished that the utter hypocrisy of such argument goes unnoticed by the hypocrites.

Keely
http://keely-prevailingwinds.blogspot.com/


> Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2008 12:37:03 -0400
> From: nickgier at roadrunner.com
> To: vision2020 at moscow.com
> Subject: [Vision2020] Obama Does Not Support Infanticide
> 
> The claim that Obama supports infanticide is a lie.  This is what Don Meyer claims in a letter to the Daily Snooz this morning and what Crabtree must mean when he once referred to Obama's" incredible" view on abortion.  I submit that knowing and supporting the Constitution is nothing is out of the ordinary.  
> 
> It all started in a Chicago hospital where someone charged that aborted fetuses still living were simply discarded. The fact is that the Illinois Department of Public Health reported that "the allegation that infants were allowed to expire in a utility room could not be substantiated, and all staff interviewed denied that any infant was ever left alone."
> 
> Some Illinois legislators overacted to these allegations, and they tried to pass a poorly worded bill that would have given any fetus born alive the status of a person. Obama and his Democratic colleagues objected to the bill because they thought it was unconstitutional and that it undermined Roe v. Wade.
> 
> Later Obama said that he would have supported the federal version of this bill, because it did not have any language granting personhood to the early fetus and thereby undermining a woman's right to choose.
> 
> Obama also argued that the Illinois bill was unnecessary because "existing Illinois law already requires doctors to provide medical care in the very rare case that babies are born alive during abortions." If the one making these charges were credible, prosecutors would have filed charges long ago.
> 
> Public health officials and prosecutors are accountable to the people, but anti-abortion activists are accountable only to their anti-choice ideology.
> 
> Nick Gier
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