Republican Sen. James Lankford (OH) reintroduced the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act (BAASPA) in the U.S. Senate Thursday, in hopes of securing a vote to enforce infanticide prohibition early in the upcoming Trump presidency.
BAASPA would mandate that abortion-surviving newborns be shown the “same degree of professional skill, care, and diligence” as would be given following an intended birth, and then be “immediately transported and admitted to a hospital.” Violating physicians would face up to five years in prison, and those who go beyond willful negligence and commit an “overt act” to kill the newborn would be punished under the existing federal murder statute.
Congress technically banned infanticide nationwide unanimously two decades ago with the federal Born-Alive Infants Protection Act (BAIPA). But that bill lacked penalties or enforcement mechanisms, which BAASPA is meant to correct.
“No child should be denied medical care simply because they are ‘unwanted,’” Lankford said. “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.”
Despite letting BAIPA become law unchallenged in 2002, Democrats have since grown far more extreme on abortion, and have consistently voted against BAASPA over the past decade. Republicans now control both chambers of Congress, but would need to convince a handful of Senate Democrats to cross the aisle to clear the 60-vote filibuster threshold. […]
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