What Barack Obama Advocates

1. He advocates the "Freedom of Choice Act" for a woman's right to choose an abortion.
2. He is concerned the legislative act "Gonzales v. Carhart" will embolden state legislatures to enact further measures to restrict a woman's right to choose.
3. Voted to kill a bill that would have required an abortionist to notify at least one parent before performing an abortion on a minor girl from another state.
4. Voted in favor of funding embryonic stem cell research. He said "We should expand and accelerate research using these embryos."
5. Co-sponsored a bill (S. 1520) in 2005 that would allow the cloning of human embryos for research but prohibit their survival.