Posted on 01/29/2020 10:09:11 PM PST by Morgana
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - A bill that would require doctors and other health workers to provide life-sustaining care for an infant born alive after a failed abortion attempt was approved by the Kentucky Senate on Monday.
The measure sailed through the Senate on a 32-0 vote and heads to the House next. It's the latest in a series of abortion-related bills to surface in the Republican-dominated legislature in recent years.
The bill would require health-care workers to give “medically appropriate and reasonable life-saving and life-sustaining medical care and treatment” to protect the lives of newborns, including any infant born after a failed abortion.
“We want to make sure that life is protected not only in the womb but certainly after the baby's out of the womb," Sen. Whitney Westerfield, the bill's lead sponsor, said during a brief discussion of the legislation Monday.
Westerfield said last week he wasn't aware of any instances in which an infant was born alive in Kentucky from a failed abortion. He added that the bill is needed to “prevent it ever happening."
The American Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky said recently that the legislation is based on “false claims" and has “nothing to do with how abortion care actually works."
“Bills like these perpetuate myths and lies about abortion care, patients who receive this care and the doctors who care for them," the group said in a letter to members of a Senate panel that advanced the measure last week.
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I feel as though I’m in the Twilight Zone.
It is very strange to me that an actual bill directing people to care for infants that are born alive is necessary!?
The world has taken leave of its senses. :-/
Even a stray cat has an ingrained sense that it should care for its own kittens...
Don’t they do pretty horrific things to the child that would make surviving abortion impossible?
I don’t know that’s why I am asking.
Also, there shouldn’t have to be a bill for someone who is outside of the womb!!
Sad that one is needed
[[It is very strange to me that an actual bill directing people to care for infants that are born alive is necessary!?]]
I honestly wouldn’t be surprised if a state like California charged infants who survived abortion attempts with ‘Felony Evading” that’s how insane the world is becoming-
Twilight Zone?
You got that right! How about we charge the doctor with criminal negligence for a failed abortion, and take his license!
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