Re: “So what has the GOP done to end the practice? Other than mouthing the words that we all want to hear? Years of GOP control produced little if any forward movement in ending the killing of unborn babies.”
The Federal Born Alive Infant Protection Act was introduced primarily by Republicans. http://www.religioustolerance.org/abo_aliv.htm Santorum (R-PA) introduced it in the Senate.
“The Federal Born Alive Infant Protection Act was introduced primarily by Republicans.”
Yes, they did. And while that wasn’t nothing, both that law and the ban on partial birth abortion are at best very minor scratches at the surface. The youngest premature child to survive, who was presumably not born as a result of an abortion, was born at 21 weeks 6 days. The chances of a child surviving who is born at less than 24 weeks is very low.
Abortions that are performed after 21 weeks represent less than 2% of all abortions performed. So if a child is aborted after 21 weeks (unlikely) and actually survives the procedure and is born alive (also unlikely), and survives being extremely premature (unlikely still), we can say that the Federal Born Alive Infant Protection Act will have actually saved him or her.
I wonder if even one child has survived to date as a result of the passage of this law?
The Federal Born Alive Infant Protection Act and the partial birth abortion ban were well gnawed polical bones thrown to the pro-life community. Their impact is slight, and represent very little progress given that Roe v Wade reared it’s ugly head in 1973.