Abortion Survivor Takes Obama to Task Over Born Alive Infants Protection Act in New Ad

Life Site News -- Your Life, Family, and Culture Outpost ^ | September 16, 2008 | By Thaddeus M. Baklinski

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Tuesday September 16, 2008

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Abortion Survivor Takes Obama to Task Over Born Alive Infants Protection Act in New Ad

"If Barack Obama had his way I would not be here."

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski

September 16, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - BornAliveTruth.org has produced a video ad in which abortion survivor Gianna Jessen questions Barack Obama for his active opposition as state senator to the Illinois Born Alive Infants Protection Act.

"Can you imagine not giving babies their basic human rights, no matter how they entered our world?" begins the ad. "My name is Gianna Jessen, born 31 years ago after a failed abortion. I'm a survivor, as are many others…but if Barack Obama had his way, I wouldn't be here."

"Unfortunately, Barack Obama voted four times against affording these babies their most basic human right. I have serious concerns about Senator Obama's record and views on this issue, given he voted against these protections four times as a state Senator. Just as abuse victims share their stories to educate the public, fight for the common good and hope that as a result politicians do what's right, I felt it was important to come forward and give these newborn babies a voice."

"I am living proof these babies have a right to live, and I invite you to learn more about Senator Obama's record on this important issue."

Gianna was "aborted" 31 years ago by her 17-year-old mother by a saline injection abortion procedure. Though she suffers from cerebral palsy because of the abortion attempt, Gianna has gone on to lead an active and productive life and has become a vocal advocate against abortion, testifying before the US Congress hearings on the federal Born Alive Infants Protection Act in 2001.

The BAIPA protects children who survive a failed abortion from infanticide.

The BornAliveTruth ad hopes to expose voters not only to Obama's opposition to the Illinois state version of the Born Alive Infants Protection Act, but to his subsequent misrepresentation of the position he took while he was an Illinois state senator. (See "Obama Cover-up Revealed On Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Bill": http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/aug/08081101.html)

Douglas Johnson, Legislative Director of the National Right to Life Committee in Washington, D.C., commenting on Obama's effort to cover up his record on the BAIPA, said, "On August 11, 2008, the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC) released recently uncovered documents that proved that Obama had misrepresented the state bill. When Obama was asked about our assertion in a televised interview on August 16, 2008, he said (three times) that we were 'lying.' After an investigation, Annenberg's independent FactCheck.org concluded: 'Obama's claim is wrong . . . The documents from NRLC support the group's claims that Obama is misrepresenting the contents of SB 1082 [the 2003 Illinois Born-Alive Infants Protection Act].'"

A television ad by the Family Research Council produced earlier this year took Obama to task for his Father's Day message in which he said that fatherhood begins at conception. (See "New Ad Takes Obama to Task for His Abortion Record": http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/jun/08062710.html)

"Barack Obama has made some very important points in his speeches, particularly his speech about fatherhood, but there is a disconnect between what he is saying and the political positions he has taken," FRC President Tony Perkins told The New York Times. "If he is going to be pro-family, he has got to be pro-family."

The BornAliveTruth ad is currently being aired in New Mexico and Ohio.

Read related LifeSiteNews.com coverage:

Obama Caught Red-Handed in Abortion Lie
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/aug/08081808.html

How Babies Were Left to Die: Nurse Recounts Horrors of Infanticide Practice Barack Obama Protected
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/aug/08081209.html

McCain: "If I Am President, Advancing the Cause of Life Will Not Be Above My Pay Grade"
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/aug/08082708.html

66 British Babies Survived Abortion - All Were Left to Die Without Medical Aid
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/feb/08020408.html

Law Protects Babies Born Alive after Abortion - Bush Administration Vows to Enforce
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2005/apr/05042505.html

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Link to Gianna Jessen's website:

Link to Gianna Jessen.com

Link to earlier Freerepublic article (NRO's on the Corner) on this TV Ad (and discussion):

NRO's on the Corner -- Born Alive Ad -- Yuval Levin

Though this is personal bias -- her music on her website is wonderful and inspiring -- just listening to a couple of minutes of it...

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Alan Colmes seems upset that the bunch of cells does not agree that she belongs in a medical waste dump.

I was watching Hannity & Colmes last night, during the interview with Gianna Jessen. Alan Colmes was going ballistic that she dared survive, that she should have been denied medical intervention and left to die. This beautiful young woman kept putting Alan back in his place, pushing him back under the rock he crawled out of. I've never been more disgusted of Alan Colmes, he is really a sick deviate.

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That actually happened in a place called Christ Hospital (aborted babies just left to die...) A nurse there (now a pro-life activist) got very upset with how the babies were left to die.

This is Jill Stanek...

She was fired from Christ Hospital from voicing outrage about what was happening to the aborted babies.

Her story is:

Jill Stanek's Bio from her web page (JillStanek.com)

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Ping

[Doctor Don]

Hussein Osam....bame is a murderer!

[pray4liberty]

Praise the Lord, praise the Lord. Truth reigns!

[Catholic Iowan]

Go to YouTube and type in Gianna Jessen, and you will see several videos of her telling her story.

[pray4liberty]

Some woman came over to her at one of her appearances and said to her, in a Darth Vader voice, "Gianna, I am your mother!" then went into a wild, crazed screechy rant.

Sounds like some stranger possessed by the Devil.

[Catholic Iowan]

I don’t think so. Christ Hospital is part of the Advocate Health Care network. From AHC’s web-site:

http://www.advocatehealth.com/system/about/community/faith/mvp.html

“Related to the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and the United Church of Christ, Advocate’s health and healing ministry beganover one hundred years ago. A faith-based mission of caring has been the foundation of our heritage for over one hundred years.”

Knowing the liberal direction ELCA and UCC has been going, I suppose this isn’’t a big surprise. Of course, the hypocrisy of touting their “faith-based” hospital as they are killing babies about makes me sick.

[Alouette]

Sounds like some stranger possessed by the Devil.

Random Code Pinkos are all like that, Satan has some awesome community organizer skills.

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It was not, to my knowledge, a Catholic Hospital... It might have been founded by some Christian denomination that did not have a problem with abortion...

I will research...

[ASOC]

Just an absolutly cold hearted SOB. In-human perhaps.

After all, he didn’t want HIS daughters ‘punished by a baby’.

I have never been a pro or anti - figured it was between the woman and her Maker.

But to deny medical care for a born alive ..... words fail me.

[PhilDragoo]

One asks in vain of Hussein what Welch asked McCarthy, "Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?"

McCarthy was proved true by the Venona decrypts of KGB cables, but Obama, when decoded, is, rather, incriminated.

For him the millstone.

His mother was the atheist-Communist from Mercer; his father either the Muslim servant of the Soviet Mau Mau tyrant Kenyatta or Frank Marshall Davis Communist of CPUSA, pedophile.

What manner of beast regards the miracle of birth as being "punished with a baby", would murder this life while lying it is "above my pay grade".

There is a black hole from which no light escapes where in humans one finds a heart.

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Christ Hospital appears to be a community hospital (when it was founded in 1960). I don’t think it has any affliation with any religous organization (Thank God!) except for the name...

[Republican Wildcat]

too bad they don’t have more money - but is better for them to run in fewer states with more saturation than more states more sporadically if those are all the resources they have.

[Salvation]

[squidward]

“Anyone who refuses to give medical attention to innocent babies who survive abortions are murderers. Obama is a murderer.”

I still can’t grasp the concept that the left will fight tooth and nail to keep a convicted murderer from going to the gas chamber, but will not fight to keep an innocent child from being murdered.

[Christian4Bush]

Alan Colmes seems upset that the bunch of cells does not agree that she belongs in a medical waste dump.

Alan Colmes is of his father, the devil.