Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act

Forty-eight Senate Democrats blocked the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act amendment, which required 60 votes to pass.

The bill would protect newborns who survive abortions by requiring appropriate care and admission to a hospital.

At a Sept. 10 hearing on the Born Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, pro-life members of Congress called on the House “to vote now and approve this humane, pro-child, human rights legislation.”

At a news conference April 2 outside the House of Representatives, Minority Whip Steve Scalise, R-Louisiana, and a handful of Republican colleagues announced that they would be filing a discharge petition for the embattled Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, a move that will bring the bill to the floor of the House for a vote if the petition receives signatures from a simple majority of House members.

Education and advocacy are two ways to promote a pro-life culture and ensure that abortion laws aren’t expanded.

Republican leaders in the House are calling on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-California, and other House Democrats “to stop blocking” a vote on the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act.

Democrats in the Senate voted Feb. 25 almost uniformly to block the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, a bill that mandates elevated standards of care for live-born children that have survived an abortion procedure. Sponsors of a similar bill in the House held a news conference Feb. 26 about their version.

It is “unconscionable” that the U.S. Senate failed to “unanimously declare to the nation that infanticide is objectively wrong,” said the chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Pro-Life Activities.