Posted on 01/28/2020 3:49:05 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) A bill that would require doctors and other health workers to provide life-sustaining care for an infant born alive after a failed abortion attempt was approved by the Kentucky Senate on Monday.
The measure sailed through the Senate on a 32-0 vote and heads to the House next. It's the latest in a series of abortion-related bills to surface in the Republican-dominated legislature in recent years.
The bill would require health-care workers to give medically appropriate and reasonable life-saving and life-sustaining medical care and treatment to protect the lives of newborns, including any infant born after a failed abortion.
We want to make sure that life is protected not only in the womb but certainly after the baby's out of the womb," Sen. Whitney Westerfield, the bill's lead sponsor, said during a brief discussion of the legislation Monday.
Westerfield said last week he wasn't aware of any instances in which an infant was born alive in Kentucky from a failed abortion. He added that the bill is needed to prevent it ever happening."
The American Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky said recently that the legislation is based on false claims" and has nothing to do with how abortion care actually works."
Bills like these perpetuate myths and lies about abortion care, patients who receive this care and the doctors who care for them," the group said in a letter to members of a Senate panel that advanced the measure last week.
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PING!
A failed abortion—is that an unlucky baby or what.
We will see if the legislature can get this past our infanticide loving governor.
I’d say lucky. Although going through life explaining the scissors embedded in your skull might be awkward...
It won’t. People in Kentucky should concentrate on getting the 2 amendments passed, since they presumably wouldn’t require the idiot’s (Beshear’s) signature.
The abortion clinics should welcome or at least not be outraged that a law if going to require them to do what they are already supposedly doing.
Governor Blackface wouldn’t approve...
Now the ACLU is trying to NOT give CIVIL LIBERTIES to AMERICANS who can’t defend themselves. Typical ACLU...
btt
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