Bill on botched abortions fails to pass Senate via jonward11
Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb., on the floor of the U.S. Senate during a debate on the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act. The U.S. Senate failed to pass a Republican-sponsored bill on Monday intended to increase criminal penalties for doctors who do not try to resuscitate babies who survive third-trimester abortions.
“It exemplifies the utter lack of trust that exists among policymakers — and I fear, much of the general public — when it comes to the issue of abortion,” said Michael Wear, a former White House faith adviser to President Barack Obama. Sen. Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, speaks during the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act debate in the Senate. But many Democrats — most of them women — came to the floor to criticize Sasse’s legislation as a political stunt designed to make them look bad and to rev up the Republican base.
Sen. Steve Daines, R-Mont., said that the bill would provide “federal enforcement teeth” to follow up the 2002 Born-Alive Infants Protection Act. That bill defined a baby that survived a botched abortion as a human, but did not prescribe specific criminal penalties if medical providers did nothing to help that baby survive.
to decrease the obstacles to a third-term abortion would allow a baby to be aborted even at the moment a mother was giving birth. she had misspoken. “I should have said: ‘Clearly, no, because infanticide is not allowed in Virginia, and what would have happened in that moment would be a live birth,’” she said.A demonstrator protests as Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam, addresses a press conference at the Capitol in Richmond, Va., on Jan.
“There's still debate from the other side to say, deliver the child and then decide what to do with the life of that child,” Lankford said.
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