What to Do with Baby

She was alive!

She wasn't supposed to be alive.

This was an abortion procedure. She was NOT supposed to be alive.

Yet there she was, wriggling and squirming in obvious distress.

Now what do we do?

Dr. Hamilton turned to the nurse, "Let's put her in the room. We'll come back later and check on her. Everything should be alright by then."

"Are you sure we can do that?" The nurse's lip trembled just a bit.

"Yeah, yeah...it will be alright. We can do this."

The nurse picked up the baby, walked to the closet they called "the room." The little tiny heart beat double-time.

She laid the baby on the little table.

There were numerous plastic boxes in the room, each with the standard, "Medical Waste" stamped into its push-in lid.

The baby's breathing was labored. She struggled to take in air.

When the door to "the room" closed, it was dark.

Only the sniffle-like breathing pierced the silence.

The baby fought for another little inadequate breath.

Her heart began to slow down and skip beats.

It wasn't really all that long before nothing pierced the silence any more.

The baby died on that cold little table in that dark, uncaring room.

Aren't you glad that little scenario could not happen in this great, moral country called The United States of America?

Only it did.

Over and over again.

Not every day. Not even once per week. But not seldom, either. Up to 15% of abortions are unsuccessful, meaning the baby does not die as planned.

Three times the state legislator had produced a bill that would make such a series of events impossible.

It was called the Born Alive Infants Protection Act.

Three times one senator voted against that bill, at first because its language did not match the similar federal bill, then, he says, because it did not protect the mother's health.

(Question: How would helping a baby live, AFTER AN ABORTION WAS OVER AND DONE WITH, albeit unsuccessfully, harm the mother?)

To this day that senator, now serving in the U.S. Senate, has continued to insist that he opposes the bill, although an identical bill has been signed into law by President Bush.

Oh! You want to know the name of the senator who supports such a despicable, horrible, inhuman procedure?

Barack H. Obama