President Obama: What about love?

Not just the title of a great song from the band Heart.  A real question to the President.

As a freshman Illinois state Senator, President Obama earned a reputation for voting "present" 130 times.  Some say he couldn't make a Yes or No decision on tough issues. 

With one notable exception.  Senator Obama did make his mark by vigorously opposing legislation that would have provided equal protection for unborn babies who survive abortions.  The legislation: “[Provided] that a live child born as a result of an abortion shall be fully recognized as a human person and accorded immediate protection under the law.”

The legislation was introduced after Jill Stanek testified in 1999 that, while working as a nurse at Christ Hospital in Illinois, infants who survived induced abortions were being left to die in a utility room.

Obama called an unborn baby "a fetus outside of the womb."  Here is the actual audio: http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=YUkbuhXzbvI&feature=endscreen

Rick Santorum said contraception is "not ok," at one extreme. Some believe a "morning-after pill" abortion is acceptable.  Some think abortion up through the second trimester is fine.  A smaller number of extremists are in favor of abortion right up through the third trimester scheduled due date.  

Yet who among us feels it is acceptable to toss a viable human being into a linen closet to die, and would support a law which stops medical personnel on the scene from giving the healthy baby water and a warm blanket, some formula and a diaper and a soft pad to lay upon?  (Lord forgive us.)

Obama.  He voted for this four times.  

Must-see short clip from a botched abortion survivor: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwFIEprF_9Y

What made me think of this was seeing Heart in concert last week at the Tower.  A lyric jumped out.  "He thinks it's so cool to be cold.  Never realize the way love dies when you crucify it's soul."