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The Texas Senate approved a bill Tuesday to protect abortion survivors from infanticide. Senate Bill 23<\/a>, known as the Born Alive Infant Protection Act, passed with a vote of 21-10, including two Democrats who voted in favor of the bill.<\/p>\n

\u201cBabies who survive abortions in Texas deserve protections and care \u2013 just like every other Texan,\u201d said Nicole Hudgens, Senior Policy Analyst for Texas Values Action, in a press release. \u201cWe thank Senator [Lois] Kolkhorst for authoring and defending the common-sense bill and we thank the Texas Senate for supporting it.\u201d<\/p>\n

The bill requires that abortionists give medical assistance to save an infant who survives an abortion just as they would any other baby born at the same age. While Texas has a ban on abortion after 20 weeks gestation, that law is waived if the mother has a life-threatening condition or the baby has receives a prenatal diagnosis. While abortion is never necessary to save the life of the mother, in either of those instances, babies who are aborted beyond the age of viability can survive. They deserve to be given medical care rather than being left to die or actively killed, as the infamous abortionist Kermit Gosnell<\/a> did when he was killed late-term abortion survivors by snipping their spinal cords.<\/p>\n

Abortion providers who fail to help an abortion survivor could be charged with a third-degree felony and face a sentence of two to 10 years in prison. In addition, they would stand to be sued by the Texas attorney general with a civil penalty of \u201cnot less than $100,000.\u201d<\/p>\n

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

State Senato Lois Kolkhorst (R) is a co-author of the bill and said that while the instances of babies surviving abortions may be rare, those individuals must be protected from harm.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf it\u2019s one life \u2013 one life out of a million, it\u2019s worth saving,\u201d she said<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Despite what abortion advocates claim, children are<\/em> born alive during abortions — so says the CDC.<\/p>\n

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However, it remains unclear just how rare surviving an abortion is. The CDC collects incomplete data on babies born alive during an abortion and found that between 2003 and 2014 between 376 and 588 babies survived a \u201ctermination of pregnancy.\u201d Some of these children lived for just minutes while others lived for a day or more. Nearly half lived from one to four hours. The CDC said these numbers are just estimates and could be higher. The Family Research Council knows these numbers are actually\u00a0much<\/em> higher.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe know<\/em> it is an underestimate because these are just reported <\/em>numbers from hospitals, not abortion facilities,\u201d Arina Grossu,\u00a0Director of the Center for Human Dignity at the Family Research Council,\u00a0testified<\/a> in 2016 regarding a similar law. \u201cGosnell is only one abortionist who was responsible for \u2018hundreds of snippings\u2019 of born-alive babies, yet he did not report one. His numbers alone<\/em> exceed the \u2018definitive\u2019 numbers of the CDC.\u201d<\/p>\n

The bill now heads to the House for a vote.<\/p>\n

\u201cLike\u201d Live Action News on Facebook<\/a> for more pro-life news and commentary!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Texas Senate approved a bill Tuesday to protect abortion survivors from infanticide. Senate Bill 23, known as the Born Alive Infant Protection Act, passed with a vote of 21-10, including two Democrats who voted in favor of the bill. \u201cBabies who survive abortions in Texas deserve protections and care \u2013 just like every other […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":172479,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[3473,11],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nTexas Senate passes bill to protect infants born alive during abortion<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Gosnell is responsible for \u2018hundreds of snippings\u2019 of born-alive babies, yet didn't report one. 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