Friday, 07/04/08

Obama: Mental distress can't justify late abortion

Now that the general election is rolling, Obama is addressing a number of issues he did not before. Yesterday he addressed Abortion. Timbo had some very strong words for Obama's position many months ago. I told him that I would be very interested to hear Obama's response to his concerns. Yesterday he began to address them.
"There was a bill that came up in Illinois that was called the 'Born Alive' bill that purported to require life-saving treatment to such infants. And I did vote against that bill," Obama said Tuesday. "The reason was that there was already a law in place in Illinois that said that you always have to supply life-saving treatment to any infant under any circumstances, and this bill actually was designed to overturn Roe v. Wade, so I didn't think it was going to pass constitutional muster."


From a whole article on his abortion stance, Obama: Mental distress can't justify late abortion.

posted by Bill at 1:21 pm Friday, 07/04/08

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Timbo wrote:

As much as I welcome this clarification, it's difficult not to see this as merely one more politically expedient move to the center. Any principled belief that mental distress can't justify late-term abortion must be applied to one's own position on Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton, according to which such distress can and (legally) does justify late-term abortion. The ruling in Doe v. Bolton was clear in stating that "the medical judgment may be exercised in the light of all factors --physical, emotional, psychological, familial, and the woman's age -- relevant to the wellbeing of the patient" (http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/historics/USSC_CR_0410_0179_ZO.html). Thus, until Obama is committed to overturning Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton, thereby returning the abortion issue to state and federal legislatures, all his statements about limiting abortion in cases of mental distress are, to put it bluntly, just words.

posted by Timbo on Sunday, 07/06/08, 4:15 pm

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