U.S. Senate to vote on born-alive bill
The U.S. Senate is expected to vote soon on the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-South Dakota, announced, as the annual March for Life gets…

The U.S. Senate is expected to vote soon on the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-South Dakota, announced, as the annual March for Life gets underway Jan. 24.
The bill would “prohibit a health care practitioner from failing to exercise the proper degree of care in the case of a child who survives an abortion or attempted abortion.”
Thune thinks it’s a common-sense proposal.
“This vote will ask Democrats to answer whether a living baby born after an attempted abortion should be provided with medical care or left to die,” Thune told reporters.
Sen. James Lankford, R-Oklahoma, who introduced the legislation, said those who oppose it support infanticide.
“No child should be denied medical care simply because they are ‘unwanted,’” Lankford told The Daily Wire. “Today, if an abortion procedure fails and a child is born alive, doctors can just ignore the crying baby on the table and watch them slowly die of neglect. That’s not an abortion. That’s infanticide.”
The bill may struggle to receive the 60 votes necessary to avoid a filibuster in the Senate, as congressional Democrats nearly universally oppose it.
It passed along party lines in the Republican-controlled U.S. House in 2023, but just one Democrat supported it.
Democrats typically contend such a law is unnecessary and restricts abortion rights.
“The law has always protected newborn infants from both intentional harm by health care practitioners and harm from medical negligence,” Rep. Jerry Nadler, D-New York, said in a 2023 press release. “In 2002, Congress passed the bipartisan Born-Alive Infant Protection Act, to reiterate that fact—and even that law was unnecessary given protections already on the books.”
Abortion survivor Gianna Jessen also strongly supports born-alive protections.
“Those who wish to justify such unspeakable evil, such as leaving a baby without proper medical care to die, have become masters of the manipulation of language, intimidation, and defaming their opponents to achieve their wicked aims,” Jessen said in testimony supporting a previous version of the bill. “As a nation, we are continuously exchanging the truth for a lie. We have neglected our soul. What will it take for us to awaken from our numbness and indifference regarding this? Will we ever wake?
“This is a bipartisan issue, and I think it’s important for the American people to weigh at this hour whether or not they wish to elect someone to the highest office in the land that favors infanticide. Because that is what we are speaking of here, a child, exactly as I was, that had the audacity to live through her mother’s abortion and needed immediate and proper care.”