Aug 17, 2008 / 10:09 am
Last week, the National Right to Life Committee published evidence showing that Senator Barack Obama has misrepresented his position on the Born Alive Infants Protection Act. In an interview last night, Obama gave a “heated” response to the allegations stating that this is “a situation where folks are lying.”
Sen. Barack Obama has adamantly stated that he opposed the passage of an Illinois law that would protect infants who survive an abortion on the grounds that it lacked a “neutrality clause.” However, last week his explanation was undermined when the National Right to Life Committee published evidence proving that a neutrality clause had in fact been added to the Illinois bill by the same Obama-chaired state Senate committee which quickly voted down the amended bill.
The “neutrality clause” was added to state that the bill did not express judgment about the legal status of a human being prior to birth – and could therefore not be used to undermine Roe v. Wade.
Christian Broadcasting News Senior National Correspondent, Dan Brody, gave Senator Barack Obama an opportunity to respond to claims from the National Right to Life Committee. In the interview, Brody began by asking Obama to clarify his position on the bill while in the Illinois Senate. “…The one thing I get a lot of emails about and it's just not just from Evangelicals, it about Catholics, Protestants, main -- they're trying to understand it because there was some literature put out by the National Right to Life Committee. And they're basically saying they felt like you misrepresented your position on that bill.”