Shame on anyone who even thinks of voting for this poor excuse for a human being

On March 30, 2001, Barack Obama stood on the Illinois Senate floor as the only opponent to the Born Alive Infant Protection Act. Essentially the bill stated that if a child were born alive due to a botched abortion, a doctor would be called in to care for the child. It was a straightforward bill, allowing doctors the opportunity to take a viable baby into care and give the child the opportunity at life.

However, Barack Obama, then an Illinois state senator, claimed the bill would be unconstitutional. “I mean, it – it would essentially bar abortions, because the equal protection clause does not allow somebody to kill a child, and if this is a child, then this would be an antiabortion statute. For that purpose, I think it would probably be found unconstitutional.” Put simply, since the viable baby was born alive due to a botched abortion, then the child would still be referred to as a “fetus.” And under abortion statutes, fetuses do not have the right to life.

So what becomes of these children born due to botched abortions? According to nurse Jill Stanek of Chicago’s Christ Hospital, she discovered the “fetuses” in a Soiled Linens Utility Room, left to die. Unable to stomach the thought of these babies dying in misery in something little more than a garbage dump, Stanek lobbied hard to the Born Alive Infant Protection Act. She appeared before the Illinois Senate Judiciary committee and told them of her experiences with the viable babies.