[Hoot Gibson]

I defended the fact that he said if the IL bill was the same as the federal bill he would support it. You said the IL bill was exactly the same as the federal one. It clearly is not.

Throughout the debate in the Illinois Senate, Obama defended the status quo. I know that you would really, really, like to believe otherwise, but Obama is not an honest man. His problem with the bill had nothing to do with viability of the fetus.

Obama consistently argued in favor of allowing live born babies die without medical treatment. That is a fact and a matter of public record. There is something particularly sick about a politician repeatedly calling a living, breathing baby a "fetus." Obama made it clear that he believed that a woman had not only the right to an abortion, but that the survivor of a botched abortion was still a fetus, whether he or she was alive or not.