{"id":194741,"date":"2019-01-21T16:28:59","date_gmt":"2019-01-21T22:28:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=194741"},"modified":"2019-01-21T15:57:21","modified_gmt":"2019-01-21T21:57:21","slug":"ben-sasse-protect-abortion-survivors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/ben-sasse-protect-abortion-survivors\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Ben Sasse announces ‘common sense’ plan to protect abortion survivors"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This week, Nebraska Senator Ben Sasse introduced again legislation aimed at protecting babies who survive abortions. In a press release<\/a>, Sasse pointed out that currently, there are no protections in place for abortion survivors. \u201cEverybody loves babies and that love has nothing to do with politics and everything to do with just having a heart,\u201d he said in the release. \u201cThis legislation is an opportunity for Congress to find consensus built on common sense, compassion, science, and a simple fact: every baby deserves a fighting chance at life. Providing care for newborns is more important than partisan political divides. Every baby has dignity \u2013 every baby deserves protection and love.\u201d<\/p>\n

The legislation requires that, in the case of a botched abortion in which a baby is born alive, the abortionist “must exercise the same degree of professional skill and care to protect the newborn as would be offered to any other child born alive at the same gestational age” and that “after appropriate care has been given, be immediately transported and admitted to a hospital.” The bill was originally introduced in 2017, and not only exempts mothers from any criminal charges, but empowers them to file charges themselves against an abortionist who violates the proposed law. Any health care provider who refuses to help a baby born alive after abortions could receive up to five years in prison, a criminal fine, or both. And if any individual kills the baby after the failed abortion, that person can be prosecuted for murder.<\/p>\n

READ:\u00a0CDC data proves babies still being born alive during abortions<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

In the past, babies who survived abortions were sometimes experimented on<\/a>. Today, the experiments have ended, but as Live Action’s Inhuman investigation<\/a> has found, the abortion industry routinely refuses to help abortion survivors and will even act to ensure their deaths:<\/p>\n