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 * 7)** Obama opposed the legislation in the Illinois State Senate. In 2001, he voted no in committee, spoke against it on the Senate floor. He also voted present on the floor. The following year in 2002, he voted no in committee, again he spoke against it on the Senate floor, and then voted no on the floor. He was the main senator that spoke against it on the Senate floor. Then on August 5, 2002, President Bush signed the Born-Alive Infants Protection Act into law.

Obama claims that the bill he opposed in the Illinois State Senate was not the same as the federal legislation bill. Although, in 2003 as chairman of the Illinois Senate's Health and Human Services Committee, he voted yes on an admendment that made the Illinois version the same as the federal one,(which both stated the same thing), but then voted no on the the actual amended bill. So, he voted yes to make the bills the same, or to conjoin them into one, but then voted no for the bill itself because he said that it was different from the first bill he voted for although he had just voted for them to mean the same thing.

The bill was first proposed when Illnois RN, Jill Stanek discovered that the born-alive infants were being shelved in a utility room. She stated: "I was a registered nurse in the Labor & Delivery Department at Christ Hospital in Oak Lawn, Illinois, in 1999 when discovering babies were being aborted alive and shelved to die in the soiled utility room. Went public when hospital leaders said that they would not stop. The disclosure immediately grabbed the attention of legislators and media. Was asked to testify before a U.S. House committee in 2000 and 2001 for the Born Alive Infants Protection Act."

Illinois version of the Born-Alive Infants Protection Act Bill:

http://bulk.resource.org/gpo.gov/bills/106/h4292rh.txt.pdf

Federal version of the Born-Alive Infants Protection Act Bill:

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=h107-2175