{"id":220021,"date":"2020-03-13T08:20:12","date_gmt":"2020-03-13T13:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=220021"},"modified":"2023-11-14T20:43:35","modified_gmt":"2023-11-15T02:43:35","slug":"new-zealand-prime-minister-born-alive-abortions-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/new-zealand-prime-minister-born-alive-abortions-die\/","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand’s Prime Minister votes to leave babies born alive after abortions to die"},"content":{"rendered":"
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(Right to Life UK<\/a>)\u00a0New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has joined 80 other politicians in voting against an attempt to require health professionals to give medical help to babies born alive after \u2018failed\u2019 abortions.<\/p>\n

The Care of child born after abortion<\/em><\/a> amendment was brought forward by the MP for Tamaki, Simon O\u2019Connor at the committee stage of the Abortion Legislation Bill. The vote was lost 37 votes to 80.<\/p>\n

The amendment would have required, that if a baby was born alive following a failed abortion, a qualified health practitioner or any other health practitioner present at the time the child is born, would have a duty to provide the child with appropriate medical care and treatment.<\/p>\n

It would have also required the medical care and treatment of a child born as a result of a failed abortion to be no different than the duty to provide medical care and treatment to a child born other than as a result of an abortion.<\/p>\n

Data from the few other countries where there are similar extreme abortion laws to the one proposed in New Zealand shows that it is likely that many more babies will be born alive following abortions, as it will in practice allow abortion for any reason between 20-weeks and birth \u2013 when unborn children are much more likely to survive a \u2018failed\u2019 abortion.<\/p>\n