The Obama - Infanticide shit

[Franks Wild Years]

So, I've noticed that an increasing number of far-right loons are making a concerted effort to push this into the mainstream. So far it's found little audience outside of Faux and nutty right-wing groups, but it's a shade disturbing regardless.

So I just wanted to provide a service for anyone who needs to dispell this in the near future:

Hannity and his ilk are routinely claiming that Obama was LYING to state that there was pre-existing legislation in place protecting infants intended to be aborted subsequently being born alive in Illinois. If these people acted responsibly and in the public interest and ACTUALLY DID RESEARCH, PROVIDING THE FACTS AND ALLOWING PEOPLE TO MAKE UP THEIR OWN MINDS they'd see that they are the only ones spewing bullshit here and that Obama was completely correct.

I give you this link, followed by a couple of excerpts fresh from the Illinois General Assembly:

http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/ilcs/documents/072005100K6.htm

Sec. 6. (1) (a) Any physician who intentionally performs an abortion when, in his medical judgment based on the particular facts of the case before him, there is a reasonable likelihood of sustained survival of the fetus outside the womb, with or without artificial support, shall utilize that method of abortion which, of those he knows to be available, is in his medical judgment most likely to preserve the life and health of the fetus.

(b) Subsequent to the abortion, if a child is born alive, the physician required by Section 6(2)(a) to be in attendance shall exercise the same degree of professional skill, care and diligence to preserve the life and health of the child as would be required of a physician providing immediate medical care to a child born alive in the course of a pregnancy termination which was not an abortion. Any such physician who intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly violates Section 6(2)(b) commits a Class 3 felony.

Also: A couple of links documenting far-reich twisting of the truth:

http://mediamatters.org/items/200808200008?f=h_latest
http://mediamatters.org/items/200808200003?f=h_latest