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Obama Claim: "[The question of infanticide] is premised on a falsehood – existing Illinois law mandates that any infant receives treatment, and there even has to be a second doctor." Obama: A Taxpayer-Funded Abortion-on-Demand-for-Any-Woman-at-Any-Time Record If Barack Obama had his way, abortionists would be able to use taxpayer dollars to perform abortions on any woman (even minors without parental consent or even notification) for any reason at any time – even after a live baby has been born as the result of a botched abortion. Despite his claim to the contrary, there are live infants being put aside to die after botched abortions – and when the Illinois legislature moved not once, not twice, but three times to end this heinous practice, he voted against it all three times. He has voted for taxpayer funding of abortion, against parental consent and parental notification of abortions sought by minor children, failed to vote to ban partial birth abortion, and even voted repeatedly against all Born Alive Infant Protection Acts, using "life and health" of the mother as an excuse – but once a child is born, and has been separated from its mother, how can that baby pose a threat to the life (or health, for that matter) of the mother? SB 1093 (2001): Voted Present, Born Alive Protection Act Part of the Born Alive Infants Protection Package. Provides that no abortion procedure which, in the medical judgment of the attending physician, has a reasonable likelihood of resulting in a live-born child shall be undertaken unless there is a separate doctor in attendance for the purpose of providing medical treatment to the child. SB 1095 (2001): Voted Present, Born Alive Protection Package Creates a cause of action if a child is born alive after an induced labor abortion or any other abortion and doctor harms or neglects the child or fails to provide medical care after the birth. SB 1661 (2002): Voted No, Part of the Abortion Alive Protection Act Creates the Induced Birth Infant Liability Act. Provides that, if a child is born alive after an induced labor abortion or other abortion, a parent of the child or the public guardian may maintain an action on the child's behalf for damages, including costs of care to preserve and protect the life, health, and safety of the child, punitive damages, and costs and attorney's fees, against a hospital, health care facility, or health care provider who harms or neglects the child or fails to provide medical care to the child after the child's birth. HB 382 (1997): Voted Present, Not Voting on Veto, Prohibits Partial-Birth Abortion Prohibits partial-birth abortions unless necessary to save the life of a mother and makes performance a Class 4 felony for a physician. SB 230 (1997): Voted No In Committee, Voted Present, Prohibits Partial-birth Abortion Prohibits partial-birth abortions unless necessary to save the life of the mother. HB 383 (1998): Voted No, Third Reading, Medicaid Funded Abortions Prohibited Repeals current law language regarding Medicaid funded abortions and replaces it with language that prohibits state-funded abortions except in instances of rape, incest, or preserve life of mother or child. HB 709 (2000): Voted No, Prohibits state funding of abortions Prohibits state funding of abortions and induced miscarriages, except when a physician believes such procedures are necessary to preserve the life of the mother. Excludes premature births from funding, except to produce a live viable child when procedure is necessary for health of mother. Permits funding in cases of rape and incest to extent payment is authorized under federal law. SB 562 (2001): Voted Present in Committee, Voted Present on Bill, Creates the Parental Notice of Abortion Act Requires notice to a parents, stepparent, legal guardian. Provides that a person may not knowingly perform an abortion on a minor or on an incompetent person unless 48 hours notice has been given to an adult family member of the minor or incompetent person. Provides for exceptions to the notice requirement, and provides a procedure for obtaining a judicial waiver of the notice requirement. |
