Texas abortion bill would force doctors to save living fetuses or face heavy fines
Bills introduced in Texas this week could mean doctors are fined $100,000 if they don’t try to give medical treatment to a fetus born alive following an abortion.
It says that medical professionals “must exercise the same degree of professional skill, care, and diligence to preserve the life and health of the child as a reasonably diligent and conscientious physician would render to any other child born alive at the same gestational age.”“A physician who [fails] to provide appropriate medical treatment to a child born alive after an abortion is liable to the state for a civil penalty of not less than $100,000,” the filing states.
The Associated Press reported in February that an infant being born alive following a late-term abortion is “extremely unusual.” Citing abortion rights group the Guttmacher Institute, AP reported just 1 percent of abortions happen after 21 weeks of pregnancy.
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