Do babies survive attempted abortions and are born? Yes.
Did Vice President Kamala Harris sign off on a bill aimed at protecting their lives and health? No.
She twice ran for president in 2019 and 2020, when Harris was a senator. Voted for the block The bill would have required doctors to provide surviving abortions with the same medical care as babies who don't have abortions. (Related: ABC debate moderator fact-checks Tim Walz's state ignores what it can do to infants born alive after attempted abortions)
On About that web page For babies who survive attempted abortions, the Charlotte Lozier Institute Research published in 2018 The paper was written by an obstetrician/gynecologist and is titled “Fetal Survival in Second Trimester Nonfetalicide Abortion.”
“We conducted a retrospective analysis of 241 non-lethal terminations of pregnancies due to fetal or genetic abnormalities between 20 weeks 0 days and 24 weeks 0 days of gestation at a single European tertiary care center between February 2003 and May 2017.” Research suggests.
“122 cases resulted in live births,” the report said.
In other words, more than half of the babies in this study were born alive after their mothers had undergone a late-term “abortion.”
In 2019, Democratic Rep. Cathy Tran introduced a bill in the Virginia General Assembly. The Washington Post reported“It would ease restrictions on late-term abortions.”
On January 30, 2019, then-Virginia Governor Ralph Northam said: Pediatric Neurologist, Interview He was on WTOP radio. asked A reporter asked about this bill Julie Carey NBC's Washington bureau.
“Yesterday we had a very contentious committee hearing where Representative Cathy Tran of Fairfax County made the case that restrictions on third-trimester abortions should be lifted in addition to other restrictions currently in place,” Carey said.
“When asked by a Republican delegate whether her bill would allow abortion once a woman's cervix has opened and is ready to give birth, she said it would allow abortion at that stage of labor,” the NBC reporter continued.
“Do you support her measures and would you explain her responses?” Carrey asked Northam.
“Well, you know, I wasn't there and I can't speak for Senator Tran,” Northam responded, according to a video of the interview. “But I would say, first of all, that's why these decisions should be made by health care providers, by doctors and by the mothers and fathers that are concerned.”
“You know, late-term abortions are done, of course, with the consent of the mother and the consent of a physician — more than one physician, by the way,” Northam said. “And they're done when there may be a severe malformation. In some cases, the fetus may not be viable.”
“In this particular instance,” Northam said, “if the mother goes into labor, I can tell you exactly what will happen: The baby will be delivered. The baby will be kept comfortable. If the mother and family wish, the baby will be resuscitated. Then a discussion will take place between the doctor and the mother.”
“So I think this has really been overblown,” Northam said. “But again, we want to keep the government out of these kinds of decisions. The decisions should be made by mothers and their health care providers. And that's why, Julie, lawmakers — most of whom are men, by the way — shouldn't be telling women what they should or shouldn't do with their bodies.”
Of course, despite what Northam said, a newborn baby who survives a late-term abortion is not its mother's body: the infant has its own body, and life.
The day after Northam gave this interview, Republican Sen. Ben Sasse of Nebraska descended on the Senate floor. Introduced of Live-Birth Abortion Victims Protection ActThat would prohibit treating newborn babies in the way that Northam described.
“This bill establishes requirements regarding the degree of care that health care providers must provide when a child is born following an abortion or attempted abortion,” the bill reads. Official Summary“Health care personnel at the scene must (1) provide the same degree of care as would reasonably be provided to any other child of the same gestational age who is born alive, and (2) immediately admit the child to a hospital.”
The bill would exempt the baby's mother from criminal prosecution if she violates these provisions, but would impose fines and “up to five years' imprisonment” if another individual does so.
“The governor of Virginia has defended a practice that is offensive to civilized people around the world,” Sasse said. said He made the remarks while introducing the bill on the Senate floor.
“Let's be clear about what we're talking about,” he said. “We're talking about killing unborn babies.”
“We're talking about a baby girl being born in a hospital or a medical facility, lying on an operating table, and there will be decisions and debates being made about whether or not to kill that baby,” Sasse said.
“We're talking about infanticide,” he said.
“Every senator should be able to say unequivocally that killing those little babies is wrong,” Sasse said.
“Do we stand with these weak and vulnerable babies who are in desperate need of care, comfort, support, medical treatment and food, or do we stand with the rhetoric of the governor of Virginia over the last two days?” he said.
Fifty senators joined Sasse in co-sponsoring the bill.
On February 25, 2019, a motion to suspend the House was introduced to end debate on the bill and allow a substantive vote. A motion to suspend the House required 60 votes. I only got 53 They include three Democrats: Sens. Joe Manchin of West Virginia, Doug Jones of Alabama and Bob Casey Jr. of Pennsylvania.
California Senator Kamala Harris 43 Democrats (Joined by Independent Senator Angus King of Maine.) He voted against shutting down the chamber, preventing the bill from getting a final vote.
A year later, on February 25, 2020, the bill was again suspended, this time for a second time. Received 56 votes That includes all 53 Republicans and three Democrats.
But Harris Of the 40 Democrats (Joined by King) he again succeeded in blocking the final substantive vote.
During a recent debate between Harris and former President Donald Trump, moderator Lindsey Davis said: I asked her“Do you support any restrictions on a woman's right to an abortion?” (Related: Victor Davis Hanson suggests Harris' second debate bid is proof she's shaken by “internal polling”)
She responded: “I fully support restoring the protections of Roe v. Wade. And as you correctly stated, no woman anywhere in America is continuing a pregnancy and seeking an abortion. That's not happening.”
What did Roe allow? The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops released a report summarizing what the ruling actually did, along with a related case, Doe v. Bolton.
“Roe v. Wade was amended by another case decided on the same day, Doe v. Bolton.” summary It states: “In Doe v. Bolton, the Court ruled that a woman's right to an abortion cannot be restricted by states when the abortion is sought for maternal health reasons. The Court defined health as 'all factors related to the patient's health — physical, emotional, psychological, familial, and the woman's age.' This health exception expanded the right to an abortion for any reason throughout all three trimesters of pregnancy.”
During Tuesday's debate, Trump Host Lindsay Davis said:“Should I ask if abortions are permitted in the eighth, ninth or seventh month of pregnancy?”
“Because under Roe v. Wade, abortions could be performed in the seventh, eighth and ninth month of pregnancy,” he said.
“That's not true,” Harris said.
“And probably even after the birth,” Trump added, “you just look at the governor of Virginia, the former governor. The governor of Virginia said she's going to put the baby aside and then decide what she wants to do with the baby.”
And Harris voted twice to block federal legislation that would have protected those unborn babies.
In 2021, According to According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 40 states and New York City reported abortions performed in their state by the gestational age of the fetus. California, Connecticut, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and the District of Columbia did not report abortions by gestational age.
In New York City and the 40 reporting states, 4,070 babies were aborted at 21 weeks or older — an average of 11 late-term abortions per day over a 365-day year.
Terrence P. Jeffery is investigations editor for the Daily Caller News Foundation.
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