This month Senator James Lankford (R-OK) introduced the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, highlighting the bill’s endorsement by the ERLC. The Born-Alive Act is designed to protect newborns that survive abortions by requiring they receive care from health care practitioners.
“No child should be denied medical care simply because they are ‘unwanted.’ Today, if an abortion procedure fails and a child is born alive, doctors can just ignore the crying baby on the table and watch them slowly die of neglect. That’s not an abortion, that’s infanticide.”
Senator James Lankford
The press release shares more information on the life-saving legislation:
“In 2002, Congress passed the Born-Alive Infants Protection Act which codified in law that a newborn, regardless of the circumstances of their birth, is to be legally recognized as a person from the moment of birth if he or she show any sign of life. The 2002 law did not provide any measures to enforce the protection of these infants, which has allowed the current practice of leaving a child to die after a botched abortion to continue. The Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act adds clear expectations of care, hospital transfer requirements, mandatory reporting, private rights of action for moms, and reasonable criminal penalties for health care professionals who violate the law.”
Read the full press release from Senator James Lankford.
