{"id":197392,"date":"2019-02-26T22:44:55","date_gmt":"2019-02-27T04:44:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=197392"},"modified":"2019-02-26T22:44:55","modified_gmt":"2019-02-27T04:44:55","slug":"senate-refuses-protect-abortion-survivors-house-democrats-still-wont-allow-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/senate-refuses-protect-abortion-survivors-house-democrats-still-wont-allow-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"As Senate refuses to protect abortion survivors, House Democrats still won\u2019t allow vote"},"content":{"rendered":"
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House Democrats blocked a request on Monday evening<\/a> to allow a vote on the House version of the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act. This happened on the same evening Senate Democrats blocked a similar measure in the Senate. Monday\u2019s House motion marks the seventh such time a request was denied in the House, and the ninth time overall.<\/p>\n

The Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act<\/a>, HR 962, would ensure that any baby born alive after a botched abortion receives appropriate medical care that a \u201chealth care practitioner would render to any other child born alive at the same gestational age.\u201d It spells out penalties for doctors who violate the law, prohibits mothers from being prosecuted under it, and institutes mandatory reporting of violations. This measure would go farther than the 2002 Born Alive Infants Protection Act<\/a>, which stated that anyone born, whether the birth \u201coccurs as a result of natural or induced labor, cesarean section, or induced abortion,\u201d is a person with full citizenship and entitled to protections under the law. HR 962 goes further by spelling out specific protections and by giving mothers recourse in case these laws are broken.<\/p>\n

READ:\u00a0Senate fails to pass bill protecting infants surviving abortion<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n