Obama accuses anti-abortion opponents of 'lying' Andrew McLemore

Published: Sunday August 17, 2008





Print This Email This CBN News' David Brody interviewed Barack Obama after Saturday night's Saddleback Church forum with John McCain and Pastor Rick Warren. Obama became frustrated when Brody brought up the Born Alive Infant Protection Act and criticized the National Right to Life Committee for its attacks on him. Brody comments on his interview with Obama: "It seems like Barack Obama's heated answer about The Born Alive Infant Protection Act is making some headlines out there ... Clearly, the conversation over this bill has gotten Obama riled up. He truly believes The National Life to Right Committee is lying about this controversial infanticide bill which he opposed. He is adamant in saying that the bill he opposed in the Illinois State Senate was NOT the same as the federal legislation that pro-choice Senators even voted for." Obama was labeled "pro-infanticide" in a book called Obama Nation by Jerome Corsi. Corsi is also the co-author of the book Unfit for Command which swiftboated John Kerry in 2004. Media Matters said Obama Nation "contains numerous falsehoods about Sen. Barack Obama." A following is part of a transcript of the interview: # Brody: Real quick, the born alive infant protection act. I gotta tell you that's the one thing I get a lot of emails about and it's just not just from Evangelicals, it about Catholics, Protestants, main -- they're trying to understand it because there was some literature put out by the National Right to Life Committee. And they're basically saying they felt like you misrepresented your position on that bill. Obama: Let me clarify this right now. Brody: Because it's getting a lot of play. Obama: Well and because they have not been telling the truth. And I hate to say that people are lying, but here's a situation where folks are lying. I have said repeatedly that I would have been completely in, fully in support of the federal bill that everybody supported - which was to say --that you should provide assistance to any infant that was born - even if it was as a consequence of an induced abortion. That was not the bill that was presented at the state level. What that bill also was doing was trying to undermine Roe vs. Wade. By the way, we also had a bill, a law already in place in Illinois that insured life saving treatment was given to infants. # View the full interview and transcript here.