Infanticide and why words matter.

Does anyone else see the absurdity of referring to someone as pro-infanticide? No one is pro-infanticide. That's absurd. Oh, except this one guy I knew in high school. But he also raped rose bushes and ate nails. The word infanticide is inflammatory and it is obscene to use it in this context.

First of all, the definition of infanticide: "infanticide" as a specific crime equivalent to manslaughter that can only be committed by the mother intentionally killing her own baby during the first twelve months of its life.

So then what we're really saying is that Obama gets hard over mothers killing babies. C'mon!

There are a number of reasons why Obama has said he voted for the bill...
1)It was a piece of backdoor legislation to overturn Roe V. Wade. Whatever your feelings on Roe V Wade are, understand this, the supreme court has decided that it is unconstitutional to restrict a woman's right to choose. Period. The End.

2)The legislation required more than one doctor to be present to assist in saving a Born Alive baby. In Obama's eyes this would put added strain on the doctors and unnecessarily. There's a doctor in the room already. It is his responsibility to do everything he can to save the baby as per his Hypocratic oath. To legislate a second doctor having to go into the OR in these cases is a little too much government in my OR for me and why a legeislator thinks they know more than a doctor about doctoring, well, that's simply, what's the word? Elitist? Right...

Regardless of whether you believe Obama or not, opposing "born alive" legislation is not the same as supporting "infanticide". It's just not. Words matter. Stop being jerks.