There are places, almost all of them in America, where it is “legal” to kill babies up to or even at the time of birth. Advocates sell this practice, everywhere else labeled accurately as infanticide, as women’s health – regardless of its effect on women or their health.
Some Republicans in the US House advanced legislation that suggests that a living breathing baby outside the womb, whether it happens to have been born deliberately or survived an attempted murder, has a right to live.
H.R.26 – Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act in summary,
“…establishes requirements for the degree of care a health care practitioner must provide in the case of a child born alive following an abortion or attempted abortion.
Specifically, a health care practitioner who is present must (1) exercise the same degree of care as would reasonably be provided to any other child born alive at the same gestational age, and (2) ensure the child is immediately admitted to a hospital. Additionally, a health care practitioner or other employee who has knowledge of a failure to comply with the degree-of-care requirements must immediately report such failure to law enforcement.
A health care practitioner who fails to provide the required degree of care, or a health care practitioner or other employee who fails to report such failure, is subject to criminal penalties—a fine, up to five years in prison, or both.
An individual who intentionally kills or attempts to kill a child born alive is subject to prosecution for murder.
The bill bars the criminal prosecution of a mother of a child born alive under this bill and allows her to bring a civil action against a health care practitioner or other employee for violations.”
Killing the newborn is murder. Denying it care can result in fines, prison, or both. The mother cannot be prosecuted.
New Hampshire’s congressional rehires, Annie “Kill ’em” Kuster and Chris”Hand me the Forceps” Pappas (not that he would ever even watch such a procedure), voted against protecting the living, breathing infants. They had to protect their big-dollar donations from international global interests like Planned Parenthood.
Money is more important than life, including the lives of girls who would one day be women if it had been illegal to murder them.
The bill did pass despite their dissent, 220-210. It moves on to the US Senate, where DCs other “ambassadors to New Hampshire” are expected to vote the same way, not that it will ever see daylight on that side of Capitol Hill.
