In a historic move, Democrats in Congress showed their true colors by voting against legislation that would require immediate medical attention for babies who are born alive after an attempt was made to abort them.
The bill still passed, thanks to Republicans, with 220 votes. However, there were still 210 Democrats who voted “no.”
“I’m incredibly proud to introduce this bill alongside my colleagues @SteveScalise and @RepAnnWagner. Babies born alive during abortion procedures should, without question, receive lifesaving care—just as any other newborn would." – KC pic.twitter.com/qfjhfQtXA5
— Rep. Cammack Press Office (@RepKatCammack) January 10, 2023
The bill says that infants born alive are “legal persons” who are entitled to “the laws of the United States.”
This language of the bill proved to be too controversial for radical leftists who apparently believe even born babies have no right to medical attention.
Hypocritically, Democrats claim all Americans have a right to receive health care, but openly deny health care to those most in need — namely, children who survive failed abortions.
The House just PASSED the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act to:
✅Require appropriate medical care for babies who survive abortion procedures
✅Impose strong criminal penalties for failure to provide such care while protecting the mother from prosecution pic.twitter.com/YvUDZ3Cd8Z— House Republicans (@HouseGOP) January 11, 2023
The new law, which is called the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, requires doctors to care for those infants as a “reasonably diligent and conscientious health care practitioner would render to any other child born alive.”
Democrats argued that the bill interferes with decisions that should be made by families and doctors.
#HR26#BornAlive
The Demons are at #FullStop level today. How is killing a breathing neonate outside the womb not murder? #CommonSense#PanicinDC#HouseofRepresentatives#medicalcareafterabortion#RoeVWade #RighttoLife pic.twitter.com/QJB2fdBKca— Militare Tantum Modo (@VicimusMagna) January 11, 2023
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Nonetheless, Democrats overwhelmingly rejected the bill. Some, like Rep. Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., argued that the bill would set up new requirements that would “directly interfere with the doctors’ medical judgment and dictate a medical standard of care that may not be appropriate in all circumstances.”
— Advertisement — He and other Democrats said the requirement to eventually take infants who survive abortion to a hospital may not be in the best interest of the family.
Several others rejected Republicans’ stated purpose for bringing up the bill and accused the GOP of trying to outlaw abortion, although the bill places no new limit on abortion.
“We all know what this is about. It is not about the protection of newborn children. It’s about control,” said Rep. Sydney Kamlager-Dove, D-Calif. “It’s about the nation-wide abortion ban that Republicans have been itching to enact since the overturning of Roe v. Wade.”
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., accused Republicans of bringing up the bill “as part of your march to criminalize abortion care, to impose a nationwide ban, to set into motion government-mandated pregnancies.”
Rep. Suzanne Bonamici, D-Ore., also cast the bill as an attempt to ban abortion, and said it is “extremist, dangerous and unnecessary.”
Rep. Mary Scanlon, D-Pa., said she opposes the GOP’s “grotesque attempt to politicize abortion care and criminalize doctors.”
