When he was a state senator Barack Obama voted three times against the Illinois Born-Alive Infants Protection Act (IBAIPA). He has claimed over and over again that the reason he voted against IBAIPA was because the bill was unnecessary -- that then existing law already protected the babies' lives. He said as much in the last presidential debate. He is lying.In an excellent article in Public Discourse, by Robert George and Yuval Levin, the truth behind Obama's tireless efforts to stop passage of the IBAIPA is told:Obama's case against the bill did not revolve around existing state law, as he seemed to suggest last night. The law Obama referred to in the debate was the Illinois abortion statute enacted in 1975. But at the time of the debate about the Born Alive Act, the Illinois Attorney General had publicly stated that he could not prosecute incidents such as those reported by nurses at Christ Hospital in Chicago and elsewhere (including a baby left to die in a soiled linen closet)...(Read Full Post)