There is a New York Times piece about Obama and his votes in the Illinois State Senate. Obama had a number of times where he voted "Present" on important issues.
One of those was an issue involving abortion. Knowing that Obama favors abortion up until the point of natural delivery (opposing a ban on partial birth abortion and even opposing a measure that would have required Doctors to care for a child if an abortion failed and the baby was born ALIVE), he still voted "Present" on some important abortion legislation. Why?
Because Planned Parenthood told him to that's why.
Here is a quote from the article.
Pam Sutherland, president of Illinois Planned Parenthood Council, said Mr. Obama was one of the senators with a strong stand for abortion rights whom the organization approached about using the strategy. Ms. Sutherland said the Republicans were trying to force Democrats from conservative districts to register politically controversial no votes.
Ms. Sutherland said Mr. Obama had initially resisted the strategy because he wanted to vote against the anti-abortion measures.
“He said, ‘I’m opposed to this,’” she recalled.
But the organization argued that a present vote would be difficult for Republicans to use in campaign literature against Democrats from moderate and conservative districts who favored abortion rights.
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