Posted on 09/23/2020 6:37:27 PM PDT by Olog-hai
President Donald Trump promised Wednesday to sign an executive order that would require health care providers to provide medical care to all babies born alive as he makes an election-year push to appeal to voters who oppose abortion.
The White House did not release further details about the order, but Trump’s announcement follows numerous attempts by GOP lawmakers in Washington and in state capitals around the country to pass legislation that threatens prison for doctors who don’t try to save the life of infants born alive during abortions.
Organizations representing obstetricians and gynecologists say the law already provides protections to newborns, whether born during a failed abortion or under other circumstances. But when anomalies are so severe that a newborn would die soon after birth, a family may choose what’s known as palliative care or comfort care. This might involve allowing the baby to die naturally without medical intervention. […]
In a video message Wednesday to the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast, Trump said his “born alive executive order” would ensure that babies born alive no matter the circumstances “receive the medical care that they deserve.”
“This is our sacrosanct moral duty,” Trump said.
Critics said Trump was trying to “score low-hanging political points.”
“It seems this administration will once again seek a solution to a nonexistent problem,” said Jacqueline Ayers, a vice president at Planned Parenthood’s political advocacy arm, the Planned Parenthood Action Fund. “Health care providers already have an obligation to provide appropriate medical care.” …
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he works harder to do that than the Pope does.
I hope enough American Catholics care, but many do not care that much.
This won’t win over Catholic voters. The Catholics who care about abortion already are on board with him. The other Catholic voters, the majority of whom vote Democrat all the time, still will vote Democrat.
I think this article is an attempt to go after Amy Barrett as a practicing Catholic. I never objected to abortion because of my Catholic faith. I just happen to believe that murder of a child in the womb is murder...and nothing less. As nothing to do with being Catholic.
Wake me when he wins over the US Conference of Catholic Bishops. A more spineless group of go-along-to-get-along CINOs is hard to find anywhere.
He’s such a hater. How dare he advocate for saving babies. All Babies Matter.
Trump is more Catholic than the current Pope.
So much so that there are several Catholic Youtubers (e.g. Taylor Marshall, the people at Church Militant) who speculate on whether or not Trump may convert, and not just because of Melania.
Trump > Francis
The USCCB is in practice a wing of the Democratic Party.
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