Contact: Susan Armacost, Legislative Director, 877-855-5007, sarmacost@wrtl.org; Barbara L. Lyons, Executive Director, 877-855-5007, admin@wrtl.org; both with Wisconsin Right To Life

MADISON, Wisc., August 18 /Standard Newswire/ -- Last week the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC) released documents proving that Barack Obama has been blatantly covering up his actions as an Illinois state senator to actively defeat legislation to protect the lives of born, living, breathing babies who survive abortion attempts.

The documents included records from the Illinois state legislative committee Obama chaired  revealing that Obama voted for language clarifying that a Born Alive bill would not in any way affect Roe v. Wade.  But shockingly, Obama turned around and voted against the amended bill which contained the language he claims to this day would have made the bill acceptable to him.

"Obama was caught red-handed in his attempt to deceive the American people when NRLC released these documents," said Susan Armacost, Legislative Director for Wisconsin Right to Life.

Over the weekend, Obama continued the cover-up when he told CBN News correspondent David Brody that NRLC is lying about his actions on the Illinois Born Alive bill.  Obama said, "I have said repeatedly that I would have been completely in, fully in support of the federal bill that everybody supported -- which was to say -- that you should provide assistance to any infant that was born -- even if it was as a consequence of an induced abortion.  That was not the bill that was presented at the state level.  What that bill also was doing was trying to undermine Roe v. Wade."

Then Obama attacked NRLC by telling Brody, "So, for people to suggest that I...somehow in favor of withholding life saving support from an infant born alive is ridiculous.  It defies commonsense and it defies imagination and for people to keep on pushing this is offensive and it's an example of the kind of politics we have to get beyond.  It's one thing for people to disagree with me about the issue of choice, it's another thing for people to out and out misrepresent my positions repeatedly, even after they know that they're wrong."

Douglas Johnson, NRLC Legislative Director, has issued the following challenge to Obama: "We now challenge Obama to either declare the two 2003 documents to be forgeries and call for an official investigation, or else apologize for his four years of misrepresentation on the issue of babies who are born alive during abortions -- and for calling us liars."

"This issue is not going to go away," said Armacost.  "Obama is still blatantly trying to cover up his infanticide votes and the American people deserve to know the truth."