[Apologetics] Fw: Waiting for Obama's apology...

[Dianne Dawson]

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National Right to Life Update February 22, 2008 
 
 
Obama called us liars, but then he  shifted his ground . . .
and we're still waiting for an apology . . . 


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Dear Loyal  Pro-Lifers, 

National Right  to Life PAC today unveiled a new web ad on its YouTube channel, that puts  a spotlight on the leading role that Barack Obama played, while a  member of the Illinois state Senate, in voting against and killing  legislation to provide care and protection for babies who are born  alive after abortions.

Since he first ran for the U.S. Senate  in 2004, Obama had claimed that the Born-Alive Infants Protection  Act (BAIPA) that he opposed in the Illinois state Senate from  2001-2003 was very different from a federal bill with the same name  that passed the U.S. Congress without a single dissenting vote in  2002. But on August 11, 2008, the National Right to Life Committee  (NRLC) released recently uncovered documents that proved that Obama  had actually presided over a committee meeting on March 13, 2003, at  which Obama voted against and killed a state BAIPA that was  virtually identical to the federal law. 

On August 16, a  journalist asked Obama about the NRLC charges during a televised  interview; Obama said three times that NRLC was "lying." The  interview subsequently broadcast many times.

However,  journalists who closely examined the documents discovered that  NRLC's statements were accurate. For example, a FactCheck.org investigation confirmed the  authenticity of the documents that NRLC had released and  concluded, "We find that, as the NRLC said in a recent statement,  Obama voted in committee against the 2003 state bill that was nearly  identical to the federal act he says he would have supported. . . .  Obama's claim is wrong . . . The documents from NRLC support the  group's claims that Obama is misrepresenting the contents of SB 1082  [the 2003 Illinois BAIPA]." 

Our legislative director,  Douglas Johnson, explained: "The position that Obama took was more  extreme than any member of Congress was willing to take in 2002.  Obama knows that the position he took in Illinois is virtually  impossible to defend, so he has engaged in a series of serious  distortions and diversionary tactics, including personal attacks on  those who delve into this issue." 
Barack Obama's campaign has one goal  on this issue:  to obscure his true record.  Obama knew he  was voting against a bill that would have made it clear that every  live-born baby was a legally protected person for as long as he or  she lived.

Johnson and NRLC Legislative Counsel Susan Muskett  have coauthored a "White Paper," released by NRLC on August 28, that  presents each of the major pieces of misinformation disseminated by  Obama and his agents to obscure his true record on the born-alive  infants issue. The paper is titled, "Barack Obama’s Actions and  Shifting Claims on the Protection of Born-Alive Aborted Infants –  and What They Tell Us About His Thinking on Abortion." NRLC has also made available, on its website, an  archive of primary documents on various aspects of the  issue.

Click HERE to read the complete text of the  Born-Alive Infants Protection Act that Obama killed, in the state  Senate committee that he chaired, on March 13, 2003 (and then  misrepresented for four years).  
   
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