The New Hampshire Democrats love to claim that pro-life advocates don’t care about babies after birth. The NH Democrats also claim that health care is a human right and everyone should have health care regardless of their ability to pay.
In regards to both, New Hampshire Democrat senators have failed to back up their ideals with their votes.
The Democrat senators all voted to table SB 741, the Born Alive Infant Protection Act, which would have required appropriate medical care for a baby born alive after a failed abortion.
Why did they vote to table it? Sen. Thomas Sherman (D-Rye) said the title of the bill is “inflammatory and inaccurate.” He said the bill “drives a false narrative,” and that as a physician “I find this extremely offensive.”
Here is the language of SB 741 that Sen. Sherman finds so offensive:
I. Any born alive infant, including one born in the course of an abortion, shall be treated as a legal person under the laws of this state, with the same rights to medically appropriate and reasonable care and treatment.
II. Any health care provider present at the time the infant is born shall take all medically appropriate and reasonable actions to the preserve the life and health of the born alive infant.
It sounds like Sen. Sherman was afraid this bill would embarrass him and the other Democrat senators that are beholden to the abortion lobbyists in general, and Planned Parenthood in particular, because it would expose the truth that the abortion industry in New Hampshire is almost completely unregulated.
In New Hampshire, no abortion statistics are collected, no inspections of abortion facilities are performed, no licensing is required to perform an abortion, and abortion is legal through all nine months of pregnancy. Babies could be born alive in New Hampshire during abortions performed after viability, but there is no way to know.
The Democrat senators should be embarrassed. They talk an awful lot about human rights being their highest priority, but when it comes to newborn babies that survive an abortion, they would rather let them die than risk their political careers voting to protect them.
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