Democrats Also Fail to Protect Babies Born Alive Following an Abortion
WASHINGTON — On Friday, by a vote of 219-210, a motion to recommit (MTR) the radically pro-abortion Women’s Health Protection Act failed.
Congresswoman Julia Letlow (R-La.) offered the motion to recommit following debate over the so-called Women’s Health Protection Act. The MTR would have amended the Women’s Health Protection Act to include the language of Rep. Ann Wagner’s (R-Mo.) Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act (H.R. 619).
The so-called Women’s Health Protection Act would nullify all state and federal laws designed to protect unborn children and their mothers.
“Pro-abortion Democrats in the House of Representatives pushed through a radical abortion-until-birth bill while also failing to protect babies who are born alive following an abortion,” said Carol Tobias, president of the National Right to Life Committee. “This appalling action on the part of profoundly pro-abortion Democrats in the House demonstrates just how far they are willing to go in allowing abortion on demand at any time for any reason.”
The Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act requires that, when a baby is born alive following an abortion, health care practitioners must exercise the same degree of professional skill and care that would be offered to any other child born alive at the same gestational age. It also requires that, following appropriate care, health care workers must transport the living child immediately to a hospital.
Current federal law does not sufficiently protect a child born following an abortion.
“There is no such thing as a ‘post-birth abortion.’ The Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act isn’t about interfering with a so-called right to abortion. It is about stopping infanticide,” said Tobias. “Appallingly, pro-abortion extremists in the House are willing to let die babies who are born alive following an abortion.”
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has refused to allow the legislation to go to the floor for a vote. In the 116th Congress, every House Republican and three House Democrats signed a discharge petition in an attempt to bring the legislation to a vote.
In the 117th Congress, all Republicans have signed a discharge petition in an attempt to bring the legislation to a vote.
Founded in 1968, the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC), the federation of affiliates in each of the 50 states and the District of Columbia and more than 3,000 local chapters, is the nation’s oldest and largest grassroots pro-life organization. Recognized as the flagship of the pro-life movement, National Right to Life works through legislation and education to protect innocent human life from abortion, infanticide, assisted suicide and euthanasia.