In response to this ad on Obama’s votes against a bill to protect babies who had survived abortion attempts, the Obama campaign has cut an ad that says “accusing Obama of letting infants die” is “a despicable lie.”
But as an Illinois state senator Obama acknowledged that these infants who had survived abortions were displaying “movement or some indication that, in fact, they’re not just coming out limp and dead.” Yuval Levin points out Obama also said while debating the bill:
It’s also a very misleading to say that McCain is “running on a platform to ban abortion even in cases of rape and incest.” The Republican platform is silent on the legality of abortion in the cases of rape and incest, and McCain believes that in those cases abortion should be legal. It’s pretty clear that Obama’s strategy is to lie about his born-alive votes–as he has done in the past–and get the press to shift the debate to those hard cases, where Obama wins even if McCain shares his position.
