You might know that Senator Barack Obama has been trying to explain why he successfully defeated a Born-Alive Infants Protection Act bill in the Illinois Senate (even though an almost identical bill passed the U.S. Senate by a 98-0 vote, and was signed into law on August 5, 2002 by President Bush). In short, Obama’s explanation has been that the Illinois version of the bill did not contain a so-called “neutrality clause” which says explicitly that the bill is not meant to influence the legal standing of a fetus before birth one way or another. But now the National Right to Life Committee has uncovered proof that Obama in fact voted in committee against even the version of the Illinois Born-Alive Act that did include exactly the same “neutrality clause” as the federal bill. Yuvin Levin posts a good summary, which includes some great links.