{"id":199020,"date":"2019-03-26T13:30:25","date_gmt":"2019-03-26T18:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=199020"},"modified":"2019-03-26T13:30:25","modified_gmt":"2019-03-26T18:30:25","slug":"texas-boycott-born-alive-abortion-survivors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/texas-boycott-born-alive-abortion-survivors\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro-abortion TX senators boycott born-alive protections, snub abortion survivors"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Action on the Texas Born-Alive Infant Protection Act<\/a> was delayed Monday as four female Democratic representatives and one Republican did not show up to a committee hearing, temporarily breaking<\/a> the five of nine members needed to have quorum and move forward on the measure. Three abortion survivors sat waiting to give their testimonies in favor of the Act.<\/p>\n

The bill in question would ensure appropriate medical support be given to living survivors of abortion by establishing a physician-patient relationship between doctors and babies who survive an abortion attempt, while codifying severe penalties for abortionists who fail to provide the same standard of care to survivors as to any other baby born at the same gestational age. Survivor Gianna Jessen, who survived a saline infusion abortion at seven months gestation, wrote on Facebook<\/a>:<\/p>\n