The White House was asked a question about the trial of abortionist Kermit Gosnell Monday. Press Secretary Jay Carney said the president is aware of the atrocities revealed in the trial but will not comment on the issues raised because it is an ongoing trial.
Fox News Senior White House Correspondent Ed Henry followed up by reminding Carney that President Barack Obama, in 2003 when he was an Illinois state senator, opposed a bill that made it a crime to kill a baby born alive as the result of a botched abortion – the same crime that Gosnell is on trial for.
"The president at the time said he couldn't support [the bill] because he felt like any doctor in that situation would take care of a child. When you hear this kind of evidence, it suggests that there's at least one doctor who apparently did not. ... Is there some legislative solution, or at least a conversation that needs to happen, because...