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Posted on 02/20/2026 6:16:57 AM PST by Morgana
‘It is tragic that Oregon’s current Democratic lawmakers are so committed to their party’s radical abortion agenda that they will not, at the very minimum, take action to ensure that babies who survive abortion attempts are treated with the same standard of care as any other newborn.’
Oregon Right to Life
Pro-abortion Oregon lawmakers voted against bringing a bill to the House floor Monday that would ensure that babies born alive during failed abortions are treated with the same standards of care as newborns delivered under usual circumstances.
Representative Court Boice made a motion during a February 16th House floor session to bring HB 4087, the Born Alive Infants Protection Act, to the full House out of the Committee on Health Care. The move came after Rep. Boice introduced Oregon abortion survivor Amy Miles to the House during courtesies at the beginning of the session. Amy Miles was born alive in the 1980s at 28 weeks in Ashland, Oregon, during an abortion procedure intended to end her life. Today, she is a wife and mother, and she represents and speaks out for the many babies who survive abortions every year.
Lawmakers voted on the motion on Monday, with 34 Democrats voting against the bill and 22 Republicans voting in favor. Included in those voting against the bill was Rep. Cyrus Javadi, a former Republican who became a Democrat last year and renounced his pro-life affiliation. Rep. Javadi is the Representative for Amy Miles’ district and had previously sponsored the same legislation.
Lacking a majority vote, the bill failed to advance out of committee.
“It is tragic that Oregon’s current Democratic lawmakers are so committed to their party’s radical abortion agenda that they will not, at the very minimum, take action to ensure that babies who survive abortion attempts are treated with the same standard of care as any other newborn,” Oregon Right to Life Executive Director Lois Anderson said. “Defining required standards of care for abortion survivors should be a common ground position for all reasonable people, even if they do not identify themselves as pro-life.”
“Oregon remains one of the most radical states on the issue of abortion, allowing elective procedures up to the moment of birth for any reason,” Anderson continued. “It is well past time to enshrine basic protections for our most vulnerable, and it is a shame that the Democratic majority will not vote in favor of basic safeguards that are supported by 80% of Oregonians, no matter their stance on abortion.”
The Born Alive Infants Protection Act would have required Oregon medical professionals to apply the same standards of care for babies born alive during abortion procedures as they would for any other newborns.
* Pro-life advocates have long sought to create more robust legal protections for babies who survive abortions.
* While the 2002 federal Born-Alive Protection Act defines infants who survive abortion as “persons,” the law does not specify standards of care.
* There are currently only nine states with born-alive infant reporting, and those states reported 275 cases of babies born alive during abortions between 2018 and 2024.
* Using extrapolated data based on information from Canada, and adjusting for a lack of consistent reporting requirements in the U.S., the Abortion Survivors Network estimates that an average of over 1,700 babies were born alive in America during failed abortions over a seven year span from 2014 through 2020.
* Infanticide is illegal, but a lack of explicit standards of care for abortion survivors leaves them vulnerable to medical neglect.
* Witness statements from nurses and undercover recorded remarks from a late-term abortion doctor further indicate that fatal neglect has occurred at least in some cases.
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This is why demonicRATS need illegals. They kill their future demonicRATS in the womb or they let them die on the delivery table so they need illegals to make up the difference.
Why? They just abort them too! Remember that story I posted the other day by some leftist? As soon as PP can get their hands on illegal women to abort their babies they can and will!
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4366879/posts
Sad but true.
Heartbreaking.
Ah, yes. Then the only explanation is they are demonic.
That’s okay less (D) voters and Polis to worry about.
Pure evil. Is there no population of decent people left in Oregon?
If the OR laws condone such events, may all of the lawmakers that approve this burn in hell.
There are. Oregon has been successfully californicated by portland,
eugene, ashland, etc, mentally retarded residents.
Like bedbugs, lunatic liberals are difficult to eradicate.
Yes there are decent people in Oregon, but vote fraud has eliminated their say in anything.
there’s a reason all the ones eating babies in the Epstein files are democrats...
But they are still protecting the fish and animals.
Democrat Platform 2026/2028....”traditional marriage is slavery”, “babies are parasites”, “borders are racist”, “parents are irrelevant”, “gender is a choice”, “faithful are bigots/neanderthals”, “forever hate”, “God is whoever gives you drugs and stuff”...
Demonically fueled ghouls.
I hate this state. Only here to care for mum in her autumn years. There is so much evil spewed out of Salem.
When Barak (all praise his name) Obama was in the Illinois Senate he rarely showed up for votes since he didn’t want to be pinned down on any decision. When the Born Alive Infant Protection Act came up for a vote he voted “no” not once. not twice but three times. He rationalized if the mother didn’t want the baby why should we care? This was never brought up when he ran for president.
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