Kevin Vance, CMC Class of 2008, CI veteran, and friend to Claremont conservatives in general, currently writes as an editorial assistant at The Weekly Standard. On Wednesday, Kevin published an analysis of Barack Obama's pro-abortion extremism that should be mandatory reading for all potential voters in November--especially potential Obama voters.
Senator Obama is on record opposing not once, but three times, a bill in the Illinois state legislature that would provide legal protection to infants "accidentally" born alive during the process of late-term abortions. Former abortion industry employees, such as nurse Jill Stanek, have testified numerous times about the barbaric practice of infanticide in the not-unheard-of event that an infant survives an abortion attempt. Kevin reports:
"In March 2003, registered nurse Jill Stanek submitted a statement to the Illinois Senate Health and Human Services committee in which she reported that infants who survived abortions at her Oak Lawn hospital were sometimes "taken to the Soiled Utility Room and left alone to die." Stanek was lobbying the committee to approve the Born-Alive Infants Protection Act of 2002, which would have recognized any infant born alive after an abortion as a human being deserving legal protection. Barack Obama, then the committee chairman, defeated the bill with his fellow Democrats in a 6-4 party-line vote."
The Obama camp has concocted blatant lies to justify Obama's shameful voting record. The Senator contorts through mental gymnastics, claiming he opposed the bills because they were a threat to Roe v. Wade, apparently oblivious to the explicit qualifiers included that the bills were not meant to overturn Roe, and finally asserting that he would have supported the federal Born-Alive Infants Protection Act had he been a U.S. Senator in 2001--although the final version of the Illinois bill opposed by Senator Obama was modeled verbatim on the federal law.
Should anyone doubt the significance of this position, I would direct them to the testimony of Gianna Jessen, a survivor of a failed attempt to abort her:
Best of wishes to Kevin Vance. Keep up the good fight!
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I knew Kevin at CMC and he was a great guy. Congrats to him and his wife, and for exposing Obama's shameful record when it comes to protecting life. I'm sure, as a questioner at the Saddleback forum asked him, he is for human rights, yet cares little for those who can least defend themselves - the unborn.
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