Obama wrote on abortion views in 1990

WASHINGTON, Aug. 22 (UPI) -- When Barack Obama was president of the Harvard Law Review and a law professor in Chicago he put his name on no legal scholarship, Politico reported.

The political Web site says it has found an unsigned and previously unattributed 1990 article that outlines some of the Democratic presidential hopeful's views on abortion.

In a six-page summary on an Illinois Supreme Court case in a volume of the year's Harvard Law Review, Obama considered the question whether fetuses should be able to file lawsuits against their mothers. Obama said no, just as the court had ruled.

Politico reported that Obama's writing suggested the government had more important concerns than "ensuring that any particular fetus is born."

The "case raises the broader policy and constitutional considerations that argue against using civil liability to control the behavior of pregnant women," Obama wrote on the case of Stallman vs. Youngquist.

Ending his article, Obama wrote: "Expanded access to prenatal education and heathcare facilities will far more likely serve the very real state interest in preventing increasing numbers of children from being born into lives of pain and despair."