Born Alive Infant Protection Act

Obama’s position on Abortion (1 min)

This bill protects abortion survivors from being shelved to die in hospital soiled utility rooms.  Obama not only voted against Born Alive, he was the sole senator to speak against it on the senate floor - 2 years in a row.

The federal version of Born Alive passed unanimously 98-0 in the US Senate with Sens. Kennedy and Boxer speaking in support on the senate floor.  It passed overwhelmingly by voice vote in the US House. President Bush signed it into law on August 5, 2002.  As chairman of the IL Senate Health & Human Services Committee, Obama singlehandedly stopped the identical wording of the federal bill from being introduced in IL in 2003.  Watch this CNN report (6 min).

Watch “Kill and Destroy” (5 min 30 sec) which includes a heart-wrenching testimony from a nurse who held dying infant.