WASHINGTON, Sept. 10,
2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Family Research Council's Center
for Human Dignity released today an updated issue brief,
Born-Alive Abortion Survivors: Just the Facts, and an
updated Born-Alive Protections Map.
There is currently no federal requirement to provide medical
care to an infant born alive following an abortion. The Born-Alive
Survivors Protection Act, requiring abortionists and any healthcare
practitioners present to "exercise the same degree of professional
skill, care, and diligence to preserve the life and health of the
child as a reasonably diligent and conscientious health care
practitioner would render to any other child born alive at the same
gestational age" is an attempt to remedy this.
As the brief notes, in 2019, the U.S. Senate held a cloture vote
on the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act. The bill
failed with forty-four Democrats opposing the life-saving
legislation, including now Vice President Kamala Harris, who was a senator representing
California at the time. In 2020,
the bill failed again, with Harris voting against it a second
time.
There is also no federal requirement to report how many
children, and under what circumstances, are born alive after an
attempted abortion. According to FRC's research, only eight states
currently require the reporting of infants born alive following an
abortion.
Notably, under Governors Tim Walz
and Gretchen Witmer, Minnesota and Michigan removed reporting requirements for
these babies. In fact, under Governor Tim
Walz, Minnesota repealed
the requirement for a physician to attempt to "preserve the life
and health of the born alive infant" following an abortion.
Importantly, even with only 10 states having ever required
reporting, there are 277 known cases of infants born alive
following an abortion.
Family Research Council's Born-Alive Protections Map lists every
state's laws, or lack of laws, protecting babies born alive
following an abortion.
As the map shows, 35 states have at least some protections for
babies born live following an abortion; however, three states,
New York, Illinois, and Minnesota—under current Vice
Presidential candidate Tim Walz—have actively removed protections
for babies born alive following an abortion, and an additional 12
states have never had protections for these babies.
Family Research Council's Mary
Szoch commented, "Democrats in this country have lost any
sense of the value of life. Their attack on life begins at
fertilization, but it continues throughout the entirety of
pregnancy and does not even stop after the baby is born. Vice
President Kamala Harris and Governor
Tim Walz have actively worked to
ensure that babies born alive following abortions do not receive
the help that they desperately need. Let us pray for the day when
every human being is protected from the moment he or she comes into
existence."
Chantel Hoyt, Family Research
Council's Legislative Assistant, commented: "FRC's map and issue
brief disproves the abortion industry's claims about abortion
survivors. Abortion survivors are a very uncomfortable and
inconvenient reality for the pro-abortion Left, so it's no wonder
that they actively try to prevent the gathering of state data on
abortion survivors. This conversation humanizes victims and
would-be victims of abortion, which they cannot tolerate.
Hopefully, these resources help people to learn about the reality
of abortion survivors and the horrors of abortion (at any stage)
and embolden them to hold their state and federal elected officials
accountable for the lack of data gathering and legal protections
for these babies."
To access the report, please visit:
https://www.frc.org/bornalive
To access the map, please visit:
https://www.frc.org/prolifemaps
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