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http://articles.cnn.com/2012-02-24/...f-abortion-rights-barack-obama?_s=PM:POLITICS
I'm against abortion as birth control but for a woman's right to chose what she does with her body.
Not sure how that would guide my views of voting not voting to demand heroic measures in saving a baby born of abortion though...
"here's a situation where folks are lying. I have said repeatedly that I would have been completely in, fully in support of the federal bill that everybody supported -- which was to say that you should provide assistance to any infant that was born -- even if it was as a consequence of an induced abortion. That was not the bill that was presented at the state level."
The intent of the legislation was to protect any infant who survived a botched abortion by requiring the doctor to give life-saving care. In part, the bill said "a live child born as a result of an abortion shall be fully recognized as a human person and accorded immediate protection under the law."
When the legislation came up for a vote in 2001 and 2002, Obama once voted "present" -- essentially a non-vote -- and once voted against it.
I'm against abortion as birth control but for a woman's right to chose what she does with her body.
Not sure how that would guide my views of voting not voting to demand heroic measures in saving a baby born of abortion though...