by Matt Lamb, LifeSite News:
Senate Democrats once again voted against providing legal protections for babies who survive abortion, citing their commitment to protect ‘access’ to abortion.
WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) — Democratic senators once again voted against protecting babies who survive abortion from infanticide.
The Senate voted 52 to 47 on Wednesday to advance Senate Bill 6, the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Act. However, 60 votes were needed to end cloture and advance the bill for a final vote. Democrats regularly oppose efforts to protect babies from infanticide, and it is arguably the official position of the party that there should be no sanctions for killing living human beings who survive abortions.
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The bill would strengthen a measure passed in 2002 by providing for imprisonment of abortionists who fail to provide care to a baby who survives an abortion.
Every Republican voted for the bill, except Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-TN), who did not vote due to a family matter. A spokesperson told The Hill that he supported the bill. All 47 Democrats voted against the bill, with some explicitly saying they believed the bill would threaten a woman’s ability to kill her baby through abortion.
As LifeSiteNews previously reported, the law would mandate that abortion-surviving newborns be shown the “same degree of professional skill, care, and diligence” as would be given following an intended birth, and then be “immediately transported and admitted to a hospital.”
Violating physicians would face up to five years in prison, and those who go beyond willful negligence and commit an “overt act” to kill the newborn would be punished under the existing federal murder statute.
Prior to the vote, Republican Senate Majority Leader John Thune called on Democrats to support the bill and also criticized the “supposed right to kill unborn babies.”
A baby born alive after an attempted abortion should be entitled to the same protection and medical care that any other newborn baby is entitled to.
This shouldn’t be a controversial bill. pic.twitter.com/tq2wqpNpeC
— Leader John Thune (@LeaderJohnThune) January 22, 2025
A baby born alive after an attempted abortion should be entitled to the same protection and medical care that any other newborn baby is entitled to.
This shouldn’t be a controversial bill. pic.twitter.com/tq2wqpNpeC
— Leader John Thune (@LeaderJohnThune) January 22, 2025
“This shouldn’t be a controversial bill,” Sen. Thune said. “We should all be able to agree that a baby born alive after an attempted abortion must be protected.” He said he expected Senate Democrats would oppose the bill.
“Why are they going to vote like that?” he asked. He said, “most Democrats” would oppose infanticide, though the “moral line… appears to be slipping.”
“What it all boils down to is this: Democrats will oppose legislation to provide appropriate medical care to newborn children who survive abortions because they are afraid,” Thune continued.
