Breakdown of the latest attacks from each camp.

9/19 – MCCAIN –  Is now drawing fire from Obama himself which has been a fairly new concept in the past few weeks. In fact up until Monday Palin was far more the target from the Obama camp than McCain was. As the attacks back-fired the Dems have backed off. In a statement today Obama is calling out McCain in ads that say the GOP nominee takes an "extreme position on choice" and "will make abortion illegal." He is spreading his message through low-profile radio ads and campaign mailings, though, hoping to avoid being tagged as too liberal on a woman's right to choose to end a pregnancy. The facts don’t match up as will be discussed.

INFANTICIDE /EMBRYONIC STEM CELL REASEARCH :

McCAIN/PALIN

 - This is a category where McCain not only differs with Obama but also with his running mate. McCain does support controversial and so far un-effective embryonic stem cell research however favors ending the practice if possible. With new technologies out there now that allow the cells to be harvested without killing the embryo, I am surprised this is even still coming up. However on abortion McCain feels that it should be illegal in all cases minus the life of the mother or rape. Palin feels it should be illegal regardless. Having said that Palin has not passed a single law in Alaska tightening the reigns on the abortion industry. Her critics either say she is too extreme or question her commitment on the issue. Her supporters say she is living out the sincere belief that abortion is wrong. McCain would like to have Roe vs. Wade over turned and so would both Roe and Wade by the way. He would instead like the issue turned over to each state. McCain is often mis-understood to be por-life.

OBAMA/ BIDEN

-  Have a much more liberal view on this issue.  There is little on the net regarding Barack’s Stem Cell stance. Barack Obama’s campaign has a new advertisement up that accuses John McCain of “lying” about Obama’s opposition to the Born Alive Infant Protection Act, a bill to protect babies who survived abortion. I don’t recall McCain’s camp saying much on this. According to the Obama camp “John McCain attacks? The sleaziest ads ever, truly vile,”. “Now, votes taking out of context accusing Obama of letting infants die? It’s a despicable lie.” According to Amanda Carpenter of Townhall.com McCain has never hit Obama on BAIPA, but an independent group called BornAliveTruth.org has. BornAliveTruth.org has been organized to educate the public on the Illinois Born Alive Infant Protection Act and Obama’s record opposing it. Last month, pro-lifers unearthed evidence from the Illinois state archives that showed Obama had lied about his record on the bill. The National Right To Life released a statement pinning Obama in the ominous corner of deceit on the bill. A 2003 Health and Human Services Committee report recorded by Republican committee staff. It documents a unanimous 10-0 vote by the 2003 Illinois Senate Health and Human Services Committee, which Obama chaired at the time, to amend BAIPA to include the exact same language that was added to the federal version to protect Roe v. Wade. The committee report also shows a subsequent “final action” vote to determine if the bill should advance out of committee or be killed. The bill was defeated 6-4. Chairman Obama voted in the majority.

This means that, in essence, Obama voted to successfully amend the bill in a way that Obama has said would have enabled him to support it—before he voted against it. It also puts Obama further to the left of NARAL Pro-Choice America. Obama’s direct quote on the matter - “Essentially, adding an additional doctor who has to be called into an emergency situation to come in and make these assessments designed simply to burden the original decision to induce labor and perform the abortion,” Obama said. Abortion survivor Gianna Jessen is a member of BornAliveTruth.org. She put a scorching statement up on her website reacting to Obama’s attack on her group. “Mr. Obama is clearly blinded by political ambition given his attack on me this week,” she said. “All I asked of him was to do the right thing: support medical care and protection for babies who survive abortion – as I did 31 years ago. He voted against such protection and care four times even though the U.S. Senate voted 98-0 in favor of a bill identical to the one Obama opposed. In the words of his own false and misleading ad, his position is downright vile. Mr. Obama said at the recent Saddleback Forum that the question of when babies should get human rights was above his pay grade. Such vacillation and cowardice in public policy almost left me to die and no one should have to go through what I went through.” Pro-life activist and former nurse Jill Stanek, who testified before Obama in the Illinois State Legislature after she rocked an aborted baby to his death in a soiled utility room, is also active in the group is quoted as saying “…Mr. Obama continues to mislead the American people on this issue, he voted four times against medical care and protection for babies who survive abortions in the Illinois State Senate, while the U.S. Senate was voting 98-0 to pass an identical bill…” Much of this post should be credited to reporting done by Amanda Carpenter of Townhall.com.

more issues in the coming days..