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Kentucky bill requires care for infants surviving abortion
Yahoo! News ^ | January 27, 2020 | Bruce Schreiner, Associated Press

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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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: Kentucky; US: West Virginia
KEYWORDS: abortion; amendments; bills; frankfort; hb9; kentucky; prolife; westvirginia

1 posted on 01/28/2020 3:49:05 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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To: 100American; 3D-JOY; abner; Abundy; AGreatPer; Albion Wilde; AliVeritas; alisasny; ...

PING!


2 posted on 01/28/2020 3:50:01 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Show me the people who own the land, the guns and the money, and I'll show you the people in charge.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

A failed abortion—is that an unlucky baby or what.


3 posted on 01/28/2020 3:56:19 PM PST by cloudmountain
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

We will see if the legislature can get this past our infanticide loving governor.


4 posted on 01/28/2020 4:03:08 PM PST by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s........you weren't really there)
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To: cloudmountain

I’d say lucky. Although going through life explaining the scissors embedded in your skull might be awkward...


5 posted on 01/28/2020 4:05:23 PM PST by fhayek
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To: ChildOfThe60s

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.


6 posted on 01/28/2020 4:09:12 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Show me the people who own the land, the guns and the money, and I'll show you the people in charge.)
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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.


7 posted on 01/28/2020 4:15:42 PM PST by Crucial
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To: Crucial

Governor Blackface wouldn’t approve...


8 posted on 01/28/2020 4:38:33 PM PST by CMailBag
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Now the ACLU is trying to NOT give CIVIL LIBERTIES to AMERICANS who can’t defend themselves. Typical ACLU...


9 posted on 01/28/2020 6:34:17 PM PST by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is, too. :-))
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

btt


10 posted on 01/28/2020 7:54:42 PM PST by GailA (Intractable Pain, a Subset of Chronic pain Last a Life TIME at Level 10.)
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