House Passes Bill Requiring Doctors Save Newborn Babies Who Survive Abortion

Lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives have passed a bill that would force doctors to save newborn babies who survive abortions.

The bill passed along party lines, with only one Democrat voting in favor.

Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX) was the lone Democrat who supported the legislation.

The vote was largely a messaging exercise, however.

Republicans have little chance of passing the bill through the Senate.

In the Senate, the bill was blocked by Democrats on Wednesday.

Democrats claim the bill is redundant because it is already illegal under federal law for doctors to kill or neglect newborns.

The bill, however, adds new criminal penalties.

The law would make it clear that doctors who fail to perform their duty could face serious consequences.

Those consequences would include fines and up to five years in prison.

In a statement, House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-MN) said:

“Requiring medical care for babies born alive after a failed abortion isn’t controversial, it’s common sense.

“The fact that Democrats would rather support infanticide than vote in favor of this bill shows how extreme and out-of-touch their party has become.”

Democrats condemned the bill, meanwhile.

They warn that it would intimidate doctors providing emergency care to women with dangerous or non-viable pregnancies.

Arguing against the bill, Democrats repeated familiar claims that late-term abortions are rare.

Democrats insist they performed exclusively for medical reasons.

During a debate on the bill, Rep. Sara Jacobs, (D-CA) said:

“No one goes through pregnancy and all that comes with it…and then after eight or nine months of that is like ‘nah, I don’t want to do this.’

“It is because of a serious fetal abnormality or the health of the mother.”

Jacobs didn’t provide any evidence to support her claims, however.

Despite this sweeping generalization, about 1% of the roughly 1 million abortions performed every year in the U.S. are in the third trimester.

In other words, thousands of late-term abortions occur annually.

It is hardly a “rare” or morally inconsequential figure.

While it is difficult to know how many are elective, the number is certainly much higher than zero.

Abortion has proven a difficult issue for Republicans politically since the Supreme Court’s repeal of Roe v. Wade in 2022.

It was credited with the party’s underperformance in midterm elections that year.

President Donald Trump downplayed abortion during his successful re-election bid.

However, Trump has not forgotten his pro-life supporters.

A day before the annual March For Life rally in Washington D.C., Trump pardoned over 20 individuals who were prosecuted by the Biden administration for protesting at abortion clinics.

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