Aggressive new anti-choice language is going to be reinforced, not challenged, by the media in the lea dup to the election. Specifically anti-choicers are doing everything they can to paint Obama as a baby killer. This line of attack relies on a single bill, the purposely misnamed Born Alive Infant Protection Act:
Back to the bill, it was a crafty attempt by the anti-choice movement to mask their intentions (they seem to have a lot of trouble when they are upfront and honest):
The antis want to redefine these fetuses as “born alive” and require that doctors provide “resuscitation.” As a state senator, Obama saw BAIPA for what it was: an ideologically-motivated ploy to vilify women and doctors who choose abortion. On the state Senate floor on April 4, 2002, he explained, “This issue ultimately is about abortion and not live births. Because if there are children 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.”
The horribly misnamed pro-life movement tried to pull a fast one on reproductive choice, and Barack Obama saw clear through it. The “Born Alive” act wasn’t about protecting babies. It was about using lies to force a religious viewpoint on a secular nation. Obama stood up to it.
Given this, it isn’t surprising that Bill O’Reilly is using that language to defend McCain (and surreptitiously attack Obama)
This post was written by Dan on October 2, 2008
