While Barack Obama was in the Illinois state Senate, he voted "present" on the Illinois Induced Infant Liability Act, which was intended to protect children intended for abortion who managed to survive the procedure. (Actually, Obama voted "present" on a lot of things that could come back to bite him, but that's another issue for another time.)

As Chair of the subcommittee the bill landed in later, he simply killed the bill--allowing doctors whose abortions unfortunately don't do the job to merely dispose of their problem the old-fashioned way. As Jill Stanek's testimony described it, at the time Illinois hospitals faced with babies intended for abortion who stubbornly survived merely wrapped them in blankets and let them die. The bill Obama opposed would have given them the same right to medical treatment as an "intended" baby is entitled to.

Although the baby wasn't intended as an abortion, that might not put her beyond the reach of Obama's utilitatarian mercies. Perhaps he would have considered her a "punishment.".

Aruna and Bhagwan Gaikwad's baby girl should thank her lucky stars she was not born under the reign of Barack Obama.