{"id":295596,"date":"2023-08-01T12:45:16","date_gmt":"2023-08-01T17:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=295596"},"modified":"2023-08-01T09:53:15","modified_gmt":"2023-08-01T14:53:15","slug":"australia-considers-medical-care-abortion-survivors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/australia-considers-medical-care-abortion-survivors\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia considers bill to require medical care for abortion survivors"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Australia’s federal Parliament will soon vote on whether a baby who survives an abortion should be given proper medical care or should be left to die as the abortionist intended.<\/p>\n

The Human Rights (Children Born Alive Protection) Bill 2022 aims to make it mandatory for abortionists and doctors to provide lifesaving treatment to abortion survivors throughout Australia. In cases in which the baby is too young to survive even with medical care, medical professionals would be required to provide “appropriate palliative care.”<\/p>\n

According to Spectator<\/a>, between 2010 and 2020 in Victoria, “Termination of Pregnancy” was listed as the cause of death for 396 newborn babies. In Queensland, it was the cause of death for 328 newborns. In Western Australia, there were 27 confirmed abortion survivors between 1998 and 2017 \u2014 and those babies were left to die.<\/p>\n

The bill seeks to prevent such deaths from happening when possible. It refers to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, which says that “every child has the inherent right to life.” It also states that “States Parties shall ensure to the maximum extent possible the survival and development of the child.”<\/p>\n

“Child” is defined by the UN Convention as human beings “below the age of eighteen years.” Children, regardless of the abortion law, are considered persons by the UN Convention at birth; therefore, it stands to reason that children should be given proper care regardless of the circumstances of their birth. In truth, however, every human being has the inherent right to life from the moment he or she comes into being at fertilization<\/em>, and that right should be protected.<\/p>\n