Fight Over Infanticide Is Just Beginning

By Tony Perkins | March 6, 2019

The Senate may have already killed its Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection bill, but the issue is far from dead. In a new op-ed from Senator Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) and House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.), Republicans make it clear: the fight over infanticide is just beginning.

“Liberal states and politicians argue that unwanted babies who survive abortions – including late-term abortions – should not receive the highest level of medical care and would simply be 'made comfortable' before they are murdered. While horrific, this isn't far-fetched. Twenty-four states do not have explicit protections for live births,” the duo points out. “It is appalling, and Congress must act. That is why we support the Born Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act. It should be common sense in a just and moral society.”............

Democrats don't want a vote on infanticide, they explain, “because they know the rest of the country doesn't agree with them – 77 percent of Americans support protections for abortion survivors and 62 percent oppose late-term abortion.” But there's a way around Speaker Nancy Pelosi's (D-Calif.) “iron grip” in the House.

That's a public process, thanks to work that Senator Inhofe did in the 1990s. Every signature will be out in the open, in plain view of voters. Do your representatives just give lip service to ending infanticide – or do they mean it? Americans are about to find out.............To Read More.....