Nearly Every House Democrat Votes Against Bill Requiring Medical Attention For Babies Born Alive After Failed Abortion

On Wednesday, nearly every Democrat in the House of Representatives voted against a bill that would require immediate medical attention for babies who are born alive after a failed abortion attempt. The House still passed the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, which says any baby born alive after an attempted abortion is a “legal person for all purposes under the laws of the United States.” Doctors would be required to provide medical care for those babies as a “reasonably diligent and conscientious health care practitioner would render to any other child born alive.” The bill passed the House in a


