So that’s why Obama helped kill the bill he worked so hard on in the Illinois Senate! He didn’t want to inconvenience the poor abortion doctors by making them deal with live babies! It all makes sense now!
[T]he only plausible rationale, to my mind, for this legislation would be if you had a suspicion that a doctor, the attending physician, who has made the assessment that this is a nonviable fetus and that, let’s say for the purposes of the mother’s health, is being — that — that labor is being induced, that that physician (a) is going to make the wrong assessment and (b) if the physician discovered, after the labor had been induced, that, in fact, he made an error, and in fact this was not a nonviable fetus but, in fact, a live child, that the physician, of his own accord or her own accord, would not try to exercise the sort of medical procedures and practices that would be involved in saving that child.
Now, if — if you think that there are possibilities that doctors would not do that, then maybe this bill makes sense, but I — I suspect and my impression is, is that the Medical Society suspects that doctors feel that they would already be under that obligation, that they would already be making these determinations, and that essentially adding a — an additional doctor who the has to be called in an emergency situation to come in and make these assessments is really designed simply to burden the original decision of the woman and the physician to induce labor and perform an abortion.
Now, if that’s the case –and — and I know some of us feel very strongly one way or the other on that issue — that’s fine, but I think it’s important to understand that this issue ultimately is about abortion and not live births. Because if these children are being born alive, I, at least, have confidence that a doctor who is in that room is going to make sure they’re looked after.
Aside from the fact that the reason the bill was even proposed in the first place is because accidentally live born children were in fact not receiving the proper care, arguing that a law should not be put onto the books because 99.9% of the people it would apply to would do the right thing anyway is stupid. 99.9% of people will never commit a murder, yet there are laws saying that murder is illegal. By Obama’s logic, there shouldn’t be laws against murder because the pool of people who might do such a thing is minute.
Personally, I think Obama doesn’t like babies. Do you want a POTUS that doesn’t like babies? I didn’t think so.
