Thursday, August 23, 2012

BREAKING NEWS: audio tape of Obama opposing legislation to prevent infanticide

Barack Obama, as an Illinois state senator, expressing his concern that abortionists may be inconvenienced by a law protecting children born alive after botched abortions, and expressing his confidence that the doctors who just tried to kill a child in utero can be counted on to save its life when they screw up: Okay. Now, have you heard it? Okay, now quickly forget you heard it so you can concentrate on the relatively minor matter of Todd Akin saying stupid things he has apologized for.

5 comments:

ZPenn said...

I don't know about you, but reading poorly displayed words while trying to listen to audio can be incredibly annoying. Maybe the author of this video should have paused the audio and made his points rather than doing this unprofessional job. It's like reading something written in poor handwriting. It isn't indicative of a bad argument, but it's just plain difficult to read (espescially for someone like myself, I have dyslexia) I really have no interest in going back to read what was written there, because it would take me half an hour of pausing to read it. Instead I just listened to the audio, and it just didn't seem like a promotion of infanticide to me.

In fact, in what I can only describe as a great cosmic irony, this video appeared to show Barrack Obama, the regulator in chief, arguing against unnecessary government intervention in something that a primary care doctor should already be doing without the mandate of law, just because that is what a doctor's job is. I don't like unnecessary government regulation where it isn't needed, especially where that government intervention could make things worse for the people that it intends to help. Most of my problems with President Obama (and Mitt Romney for that matter) come from their support of unnecessary government control and regulation. I'm certainly not going to complain when they decide to limit themselves adding an extra layer of beaurocracy in a place where it isn't needed.

Anonymous said...

For a guy who was known around Springfield as a less than hard working Senator who voted present a lot, it's amazing how long and hard Obama fought on this issue, even to the point that many Democrats shook their heads. What this is is sick, and I say so as a pro-choice Republican....a pro-choice Republican just like Nancy Reagan, Barbara Bush, Laura Bush and her daughters, Cindy McCain and her daughter and both Romneys in their previous political lives.

Anonymous said...

ZPenn, there is certainly irony in the "regulator in chief" seeing no need for a regulation to keep a doctor from killing a live baby who is no longer in the womb but in the world. This was obviously no first term abortion, which is all that Roe-Wade guaranteed as a woman's right. This is infanticide.

ZPenn said...

The problem is that the law appears to be saying that if a baby is born, and it shows signs of life, the doctor needs to get a seconds doctor to assess the child's viability. If the first doctor can already see signs of life, why does he need to bring in another doctor. Isn't the first doctor already bound to try to keep the baby alive if possible? The whole premise is that the baby is showing signs of life. If this is happening, there is no need for extra legislation, the doctor should already be trying to save the baby. That's the doctor's freaking job. How is being against this legislation infanticide? A baby that shows signs of life, is by definition, potentially alive. If the baby is potentially alive, the doctor is already duty bound to try to save the baby. No extra laws necessary. It's like writing a new law that says murdering redheads is illegal. Murdering redheads is already illegal because murder is illegal. Writing extra legislation is frivolous, and being against it doesn't make you a murderer.

KyCobb said...

Read this link to refute the lie that the President supports infanticide:

http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2012/08/30/mike_huckabee_s_convention_speech_why_did_he_imply_that_obama_supports_infanticide_.html