[Vision2020] Obama Does Not Support Infanticide

[Sue Hovey]

Don Meyer isn't one to let the truth stand in the way of a good story.  Last 
election he was the one who wrote Shirley Ringo didn't stand for the Pledge 
during some meeting in Troy, but when I called and pressed him for his 
source he laid it on Gary Schroeder and Tom Trail.  When I insisted further, 
he hung up on me.

Sue Hovey
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <nickgier at roadrunner.com>
To: <vision2020 at moscow.com>
Sent: Saturday, September 20, 2008 9:37 AM
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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