By Emily Ward | February 5, 2019
On Monday night, U.S. Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) used her authority to table a bill in the Senate that would have prohibited the killing of a child that survives an abortion and instituted penalties for any health worker who killed or tried to kill a baby that survived an abortion.
The legislation, the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, was introduced by Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.). When Sasse, on the Senate floor, asked for unanimous consent for the bill to move forward to committee, Sen. Murray objected and did not give her consent. As a result, the bill was stopped..........Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) also supported the bill, which, he noted, “takes no position on abortion.” He pointed out that, under the proposed law, even if a child is born “in the most dangerous place in the world for an infant – that is, a Planned Parenthood clinic – he or she becomes a citizen of the United States.”.........“This isn’t about Republicans and Democrats,” he insisted. “We are way beyond that. Everyone in the Senate ought to be able to say unequivocally that the little baby deserves life, that she has rights, and that killing her is wrong.”.............To Read More.....
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