Yes, Mona, “Barack Obama: Baby Killer” Is A Right Wing Fantasy -Jane Hamsher

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Yes, Mona, “Barack Obama: Baby Killer” Is A Right Wing Fantasy

By: Jane Hamsher Sunday September 14, 2008 8:40 am


I was on CSPAN this morning with Mona Charen, who repeated the charge that Obama is pro-infanticide because he refused to support an amendment to the Illinois Abortion Law of 1975 called the "Born Alive Infants Protection Act." She claimed the bill was necessary because of so many "botched abortions" resulting in infants who were "born alive" and murdered by hospitals who left them alone in to die in dirty linen closets, which I took issue with as a "right wing fantasy."

It's true Obama voted against the bill, but it was because the Illinois criminal code already prohibited such actions (which the Illinois Department of Public Health confirmed). But the bill also had a lot of poison pill threats to abortion rights, and rightly went down to defeat.

Undeterred, by way of proof Charen has posted on The Corner the transcripts of testimony by Jill Stanek, a nurse who purportedly witnessed these incidents.

Media Matters:

In an August 2004 email discussion with Stanek, Chicago Tribune columnist Eric Zorn quoted IDPH spokesman Tom Shafer stating: "hat they were alleging were violations of existing law. ... We took (the allegations) very seriously." Zorn further wrote: "Shafer told me that the 1999 investigation reviewed logs, personnel files and medical records. It concluded, 'The allegation that infants were allowed to expire in a utility room could not be substantiated (and) all staff interviewed denied that any infant was ever left alone.' "

The Illinois Department of Public Health investigated Stanek's claims. Nobody would back her up. It's all horseshit, and yes, a "right wing fantasy." Yet Ann Coulter used Stanek's account to claim that Obama "wants the doctors ... chasing it through the delivery room to make sure it gets killed."

So who is Stanek and why do they love her?

http://campaignsilo.firedoglake.com/2008/09/14/yes-mona-barack-obama-baby-killer-is-a-right-wing-fantasy/

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1. I'd like to see the infanticide crap sqelched once and for all;

That giant pile of sleaze Newt Gingrich was pedding it on The Daily Show a couple of weeks ago.

As for Mona Charen, when she smiles she looks like she just stepped on an arthritic old lady's toes with her spike heels. A low-rent Bay Buchanan.:puke: