{"id":395,"date":"2023-01-13T10:57:26","date_gmt":"2023-01-13T15:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/?p=395"},"modified":"2023-01-13T10:57:27","modified_gmt":"2023-01-13T15:57:27","slug":"democrats-show-their-true-colors-vote-against-life-saving-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/?p=395","title":{"rendered":"Democrats Show Their True Colors, Vote Against Life-Saving Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Note: This article may contain commentary reflecting the author’s opinion.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

All but two House Democrats on Wednesday voted down a bill that would require medical attention for babies born alive following an abortion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act<\/a> was passed on a near party-line vote with 220 voting in favor and 210 voting against. All of the congressional Republicans and only one Democrat, Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX), voted to save children born following an abortion while the rest of the Democrat Party voted against the measure. One Democrat, Rep. Vicente Gonzalez (D-TX) voted \u201cpresent.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The bill requires that doctors \u201cmust (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.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The proposed law also mandates that doctors or other employees of an abortion clinic \u201cwho has knowledge of a failure to comply with the degree-of-care requirements must immediately report such failure to law enforcement.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a press release, the bill\u2019s author, Rep. Ann Wagner (R-MO)\u00a0wrote<\/a>\u00a0\u201cIt pains me that this fight has to be fought at all, but medical care for babies should not be a partisan issue. Now, with Republicans in the Majority, the House will finally take action and vote to protect the fundamental right to life.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis doesn\u2019t really have much to do with abortion. It\u2019s quite frankly infanticide,\u201d Rep. Wagner added in a video<\/a> to Twitter. \u201cThere are hundreds of babies born alive that survive an abortion and are left to die in a clinic, in a bucket, alone. It\u2019s wrong. It\u2019s unconscionable. And it\u2019s something that we sadly got to legislate. Every child that comes into this world no matter their circumstance should have their right to life-saving care.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rep. Mark Alford (R-MO), who co-sponsored the bill, took to\u00a0Twitter<\/a>\u00a0to explain his vote and highlight the radicalism of the Democrats who voted against the legislation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDemocrats are so radical and so extreme that they voted against protecting a born-alive infant,\u201d Alford said. \u201cDemocrat Governor Ralph Northam (D-VA), who\u2019s a medical doctor himself, said that born alive survivors from third-trimester abortions should be delivered and kept comfortable until the family and doctors could decide if an alive and living baby should remain alive.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis is abhorrent folks. This is infanticide,\u201d he added. \u201cAnd it is our responsibility to pass this protection of life, which is exactly what we did today.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Republicans in Congress have promised to protect the sanctity of life \u2014 and that\u2019s what we\u2019ve accomplished by passing the Born-Alive Survivors Protection Act.

I\u2019m proud to cosponsor the Born-Alive act by joining my colleague @RepAnnWagner<\/a>.

Watch \u2b07\ufe0f pic.twitter.com\/9DUq2l6kOP<\/a><\/p>— Mark Alford \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@markalfordkc) January 11, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote>