• In 1997 Obama opposed the bill preventing partial-birth abortion. He has consistently voted
to increase embryonic stem cell research.

• On being asked whether he believed that life begins at conception Obama replied "I don't
presume to know the answer to that question. What I know is that there is something extraordinarily
powerful about potential life."

• Obama believes that contraception has be a topic in the education syllabus, which could
result in reducing abortions. As stated by Democratic Compassion Forum at Messiah College on 13th
April 2008.

• Barack Obama strongly supported the 1973 Roe v Wade decision regarding abortion rights
stating that a woman had the right to terminate pregnancy if she was legally right and if abortion
procedures were as per what Roe defined. 

• Obama has been an unswerving defender of reproductive choice, and also stands up for
expanded access to contraception to decrease accidental pregnancies. 

• Obama feels that he "can trust women to make decisions in conjunction with their doctors,
their families and their clergy. Reducing teen pregnancy; making it less likely for women to find
themselves in these circumstances."

• He voted against the prohibition of minors crossing state lines for abortion. 

• In March 2001, he opposed a legislation protecting born-alive failed abortions. He insisted
that there should be no restrictions whatsoever on a mother's right to decide to abort the child. 

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