– The Illinois Born-Alive Infants Protection Act (BAIPA) was a simple three-sentence bill to establish that every baby who achieved “complete expulsion or extraction” from the mother, and who showed defined signs of life, was to enjoy the legal protections of a “person.”  As a state senator, Obama led the opposition to this bill in 2001, 2002, and 2003.  On March 13, 2003, Obama killed the bill at a committee meeting over which he presided as chairman.

This was his record … babies born alive during a botched abortion, in his opinon, may be killed! reference here

– Obama is a cosponsor of the so-called “Freedom of Choice Act” (FOCA) (S. 1173), which would nullify all state and federal laws that “interfere with” access to abortion before “viability” (as defined by the abortionist).  The bill would also nullify all state and federal laws that “interfere with” access to abortion after viability if deemed to enhance “health.”  Because the term “health” is not qualified in the bill, no state would be allowed to exclude any “health” justification whatever for post-viability abortions, because to do so would impermissibly narrow a federally guaranteed right.  In short, the FOCA would establish a federal “abortion right” broader than Roe v. Wade and, in the words of the National Organization for Women, “sweep away hundreds of anti-abortion laws [and] policies.”   The chief sponsors and advocacy groups backing the legislation have acknowledged that it would make partial-birth abortion legal again, nullify state parental notification laws, and require the state and federal governments to fund abortions.

– Speaking to the Planned Parenthood Action Fund on July 17, 2007, Obama said, “The first thing I’d do as president is sign the Freedom of Choice Act.  That’s the first thing that I’d do.”

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