Posted on 09/24/2020 7:40:56 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
On Wednesday, President Donald Trump announced he would sign an executive order to protect the lives of babies born alive in a botched abortion. A similar bill failed in the Senate last year, but Democrats have argued that the legislation is “redundant.” If so, they should have no complaints when the president issues his order, right?
“I will always defend the sacred right to life,” Trump announced at the 16th annual National Catholic Prayer Breakfast. “Today I am announcing that I will be signing the ‘born alive’ executive order to ensure that all precious babies born alive—no matter their circumstances—receive the medical care that they deserve. This is our sacrosanct moral duty.”
At the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast, President @realDonaldTrump announced he will sign the Born-Alive Executive Order! pic.twitter.com/Y2bu1wmRwV
— Team Trump (Text VOTE to 88022) (@TeamTrump) September 23, 2020
President George W. Bush signed the Born-Alive Infants Protection Act of 2002, which extended legal protection to an infant born alive after a failed attempt at an abortion. Yet last year, Gov. Ralph Northam (D-Va.) suggested that the law is not enforced. He said that doctors would allow babies to die if they were born in an attempted abortion.
Northam had responded to the public outcry over a radical abortion bill he supported. Delegate Kathy Tran (D-Springfield) had testified that under the new bill, abortion would be legal until the beginning of labor so long as one doctor — even just the abortionist — testified that carrying the baby to term would damage a woman’s life or health.
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Under current Virginia law, late-term abortions require the approval of three doctors who must certify that the pregnancy would “substantially and irremediably” damage the woman’s life or health. Kathy Tran’s bill would strike the “substantially and irremediably” language.
Yet in defending the bill, Northam went even further. He explained that, if a baby survives a late-term abortion, the baby would be “kept comfortable” while the parents and the doctor discussed whether or not to “resuscitate” the infant.
Northam’s infanticide remarks inspired an old classmate of his to leak the blackface-KKK photo to the media, creating a firestorm for the governor and leading to demands that he resign.
I grew up in Virginia when it had morals, common sense and no communists. That was in the 50s and early 60s.
I would never consider moving back.
This has been happening for a long time.
He did say that he would “make them comfortable” beforehand - he’s a hell of a guy.
Alex Jones had a segment on abortion yesterday showing what abortion supporters really are - in their own words. Stark.
https://youtu.be/TgAi8RyDev8?t=570
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