Obama can’t comment against Gosnell, because Obama stands with him
Opposed companion bill to Born Alive as state senator that sought to protect abortion survivors from the Gosnells of the world
Although President Obama had no trouble commenting on the ongoing Trayvon Martin case, White House spokesperson Jay Carney said today Obama wouldn’t be commenting on the Kermit Gosnell mass murder case because he “cannot take a position on an ongoing trial” or “comment further on an ongoing legal proceeding”…
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Of course the White House wants to avoid this topic. What a disaster Gosnell is for Obama.
Gosnell first brings to Obama’s door the uncomfortable topic of infanticide. Obama is well known to have voted four times against the Illinois Born Alive Infants Protection Act as state senator, which sought to protect abortion survivors.
But Obama also opposed two companion bills to BAIPA, one of which brings him zero degrees of separation from Gosnell. I was impressed with Fox’s Ed Henry, who went there in his questions to Carney today.
On April 4, 2002, Obama testified against Senate Bill 1663, which required abortionists to provide “reasonable measures consistent with good medical practice” to abortion survivors and to plan to have a second physician present if there was a “reasonable likelihood” that the abortion would result “in a live born child.”
You can read the entire transcript here, pages 28-35, but the gist of Obama’s opposition was that he had full faith in abortionists:
The only plausible rationale, to my mind, of this legislation would be if you had a suspicion that a doctor… (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… would not try to exercise the sort of medical measures and practices that would be involved in saving that child.
Now, if you think that there are possibilities that doctors would not do that, then maybe this bill make sense, but I… feel… an additional doctor who then has to be called in an emergency situation to come in and make these assessments is really designed to burden the original decision of the woman and the physician….
[I]f these are children who are being born alive, I, at least, have confidence that a doctor who is in that room is going to make sure that they’re looked after.
Obama could not fathom that an abortionist who had been paid to kill a baby wouldn’t turn around and try to save a viable baby’s life in the event of a botch.
Kermit Gosnell would have been one of the abortionists in which Obama had “confidence.” Most know by now Gosnell is on trial for murdering seven abortion survivors and one mother.
Gosnell was committing abortions in Pennsylvania at the very time this bill was being debated in Illinois. Who knows, perhaps Gosnell was “snipping” the spinal cord of an abortion survivor at the moment Obama testified to his sterling character. After all, the grand jury report stated Gosnell likely killed “hundreds” of abortion survivors during the three decades he was in business.
Barack Obama has stated on record that he stands with the Kermit Gosnells of America. He can’t walk that back without opening the door to regulations such as he rejected as state senator. So he’s stuck….
Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
I wonder, if Obama had a son, would he look like one of those dead babies?
Just when The MSM was Gonna cover The #gosnell-We have domestic terrorist to deflect notice?
This reporter asked an excellent follow-up question about coming up with some kind of legislative solution to prevent abortionists doing things like Gosnell. Perhaps, Mr. Henry could ask the President why he did support the Illinois BAIPA which could have helped/caused Gosnell to reconsider his abortion practices?
On a separate note, I am not upto date as to the specifics of the PBABA or the BAIPA, does any know if Gosnell is being prosecuted under the PBABA or the BAIPA or both?
That video clip is infuriating. What a bunch of b.s.
Anyone remember Obama saying the Cambridge police “acted stupidly”? I guess he has to wait to speak out only when it involves abortion.
There is a reason the English language has the word “wicked”. It is used very little these days thanks to the PC police and moral relativists excluding it from their lexicon. Nonertheless there is nothing to stop us from calling it like it is. Gosnell is wicked, and as a state senator in Illinois Barack Obama worked enthusiastically to prohibit BAIPA from becoming law, thus allowing the wicked practice of allowing born alive infants to die without being given any kind of life saving efforts.
[I]f these are children who are being born alive, I, at least, have confidence that a doctor who is in that room is going to make sure that they’re looked after.
There are two ways to parse Obama’s final statement – and Jill is being graceful in giving him the benefit of the doubt. An abortionist’s conflict of interest is so overwhelming, to claim an abortionist would care for an abortion target is implausible. It’s akin to an assassin who only injures their target to provide first aid.
Shame on the entire Illinois State Senate for not calling Obama out on that.
Obama’s phrasing is duplicitous - unclear. What does “looked after” mean? Most humane individuals would consider aid and comfort, but Gosnell understood “looked after” meant dispatching with a ‘snip’ to the neck.
Tiller used his own crematorium so there would be no damning evidence. Gosnell was a sloppy killer. Surprised NARAL didn’t try to keep him in line.
Obama has no interest in truly protecting children – never has, never will.
“If there is even one thing we can do to reduce this violence, if there’s even one life that can be saved, we’ve got an obligation to try.”
Ok, Obama. Go ahead and try. We’re waiting. Votes speak louder than rhetoric.
THANKS JILL FOR EXPOSING BHO LONG BEFORE THIS!!!! They callled you a liar and a lot of other hateful things but God’s word reminds us that “Blessed are you when men shall revile you hate you and say all manner of evil against you falsely for my name sake’. Blessed is the man that walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the sit of the scornful” … Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgement, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous. For the Lord know the way of the righteous, but the way of the ungodly shall perish”. Thanks for speaking the truth Jill.
Jill, I agree with you 100%. Obama has been inserting himeslf in every issue that matters to him under investigation or not, but he’s taking the distance from Gosnell, because it would be very toxic for him to come out and say:”Gosnell did the right thing. He was paid for the job and he delivered the results, no matter what”! I think the people and the media should insist on calling on Obama to voice his opion and have it on tape.
The left is a bunch of sick bastards. They won’t say anything bad about this heinous mass murderer of newborns AND they hope he gets off. They are trying so desperately not to report this.
Shut the hell up! You racist! It’s people like you I know deep down were cheering for that scumbag that send Obama that poison letter! I was right! Anyone who hates this man IS a racist! It would be inappropriate for a sitting President to comment on an on-going investigation or trial. You racists are disgsuting and hateful! What is he supposed to say!
^ Are you serious? Is this some sort of bad joke? ^
What is he supposed to say? Hmmm. He could say Gosnell “acted stupidly” … or he could say “if I had a son, he would look like” many of the babies Gosnell aborted … or he could say “This is our first task — caring for our children. It’s our first job. If we don’t get that right, we don’t get anything right. That’s how, as a society, we will be judged.”
Oh, wait.