He opposed the "Born Alive Infants Protection Act" which required doctors to give medical care to babies that were actually living outside the mothers womb. He essentially said that allowing the baby to live was defeating the intent of the mother. I believe he was the only member of the IL congress to oppose this law.
-----------------------------------------------------------------
At the time, Barack Obama was an Illinois state senator. An almost exact copy of the federal bill was introduced in 2001. Obama opposed it, saying, “I mean it, it would essentially bar abortions because the equal protection clause does not allow somebody to kill a child, and if this is a child, then this would be an antiabortion statute.” Even though the baby would be completely separated from the mother. In 2003, the Illinois legislature added a neutrality clause to the bill, making it a virtual clone of the federal legislation. As chairman of the committee considering the bill, Obama again opposed it, saying, “… an additional doctor who then has to be called in an emergency situation and make these assessments is really designed simply to burden the original decision of the woman …”
------------------------------------------------------------------
unconscionable