Obama Spars With Anti-Abortion Groups Over Illinois Senate Record

Barack Obama is sparring with anti-abortion groups who have accused him of covering up his record in the Illinois Senate on infant protection legislation. Obama is pro-choice, but he told Pastor Rick Warren on Saturday during a forum at Saddleback Church in Orange County, Calif., that he is in favor of limits on late-term abortions provided exceptions are made for the mother’s health. The presumptive Democratic presidential nominee followed that forum with an interview on the Christian Broadcasting Network in which he said the National Right to Life Committee was “lying” about his voting record in the Illinois Senate. The committee says Obama worked in the Illinois Senate to kill legislation “virtually identical” to the federal Born-Alive Infants Protection Act, which was intended to extend legal rights to an infant born even after an attempted abortion. “I hate to say that people are lying, but here’s a situation where folks are lying,” Obama ... (link)