{"id":217547,"date":"2020-01-29T08:40:55","date_gmt":"2020-01-29T14:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=217547"},"modified":"2020-01-28T16:35:12","modified_gmt":"2020-01-28T22:35:12","slug":"kentucky-bill-medical-care-abortion-survivors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/kentucky-bill-medical-care-abortion-survivors\/","title":{"rendered":"Kentucky bill would mandate proper medical care for abortion survivors"},"content":{"rendered":"
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According to the Centers for Disease Control, babies do survive botched abortions<\/a>, despite claims to the contrary. Because of this, more and more states are moving to require that abortion survivors are given proper medical care. The latest is Kentucky, where such a bill has just passed a state Senate panel.<\/p>\n

Senate Bill 9 has passed the Senate Veterans, Military Affairs and Public Protection Committee, and is now on its way to the full state Senate. Sen. Whitney Westerfield said that though he doesn’t know of any instances of abortion survivors in Kentucky, he wanted to make sure it never happened.<\/p>\n

\u201cWho can dispute that that\u2019s a human life?\u201d Westerfield said to reporters<\/a> after the committee vote. \u201cIt\u2019s outside the womb. It\u2019s alive. Who would advocate for it to be killed? We want to make sure the law\u2019s there to punish those that are trying to do it and get away with it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Any abortionist or health care worker would be required to give \u201cmedically appropriate and reasonable life-saving and life-sustaining medical care and treatment\u201d to abortion survivors, and refusing to do so would be a felony punishable by one to five years in prison, according to the bill.<\/p>\n

READ:\u00a0Former nurse recalls \u2018comfort room\u2019 where abortion survivors were taken to die<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Unsurprisingly, the ACLU has already come out against the bill, claiming that it equals nothing more than “myths and lies” about abortion. “Senate Bill 9 has nothing to do with how abortion care actually works and is based on false claims,” Kate Miller, advocacy director for the American Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky, said in a letter sent to state lawmakers<\/a>, adding that the bill would “criminalize the work that dedicated doctors do to provide this safe, legal, constitutionally-protected care.”<\/p>\n

It’s not unusual for abortion advocates to deny that abortion survivors need extra protection with many claiming that adequate protection already exists. But this is false<\/a>. Most often, they point to the 2002 Born Alive Infant Protection Act as proof, which did state that abortion survivors are persons with full citizenship and are entitled to full protection under the law. Yet it was still inadequate<\/a>\u00a0because it contained\u00a0no penalties for breaking the law. And while the Act does claim that abortion survivors are legal “persons,” it doesn’t mandate any kind of medical care whatsoever.<\/p>\n

And sadly, despite the ACLU’s claims, babies do<\/em> survive abortion. As previously mentioned,\u00a0the CDC<\/a>\u00a0reported at least 143 children were born alive after an attempted abortion between 2003 and 2014. The CDC likewise acknowledged that the complete number was likely even higher. Babies continue to be born alive today<\/a>\u00a0— and expecting abortionists to be trusted to provide medical care to children while being paid to kill them makes little sense. Listen to what some said when exposed in a Live Action undercover investigation:<\/p>\n