Posted on 02/27/2023 5:05:21 PM PST by marshmallow
Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Feb 17, 2023 / 12:50 pm A Democrat-controlled Virginia Senate committee shot down a House-passed bill that would have required doctors to render medical care to an infant who is born alive after an abortion attempt, which prevents the legislation from moving forward.
The legislation, sponsored by Del. Nick Freitas, R-Culpeper, would have required any health care provider who performs or assists in an attempted abortion in which the infant is born alive to provide the “same degree of professional skill, care, and diligence” to preserve the life that they would to any other child born at the same gestational age. It would also require health care professionals to “ensure the immediate transfer of the infant … to a hospital for further medical care.”
The proposed bill would have also compelled hospitals to establish a protocol for the treatment and care of infants born alive after an attempted abortion. It would also have required a protocol for reporting violations to law enforcement.
If a health care provider violated the law, he or she would have been guilty of a Class 4 felony, which would have carried a penalty of prison time between two and 10 years and a fine of up to $100,000. The health care provider could have also been subject to disciplinary action by the Virginia Board of Medicine.
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Dems support killing defenseless Americans, Why?
A good prosecutor would being charges anyway. Why do babies need a special law to keep from being murdered?
Democrats salivate over the idea of infanticide. They literally lust after it.
Their bloodlust simply cannot be satisfied.
They are demons. They will eventually be with their lord and master in eternal hell.
The Molech Party.
I normal person would be against such a bill.
Bammy himself voted against a similar bill while a state senator in Illinois.
Baby murdering democrats still at it. They murder because they are evil. Stop making excuses for them. If a german soldier stood in front of you and admitted murdering thousands of people in a concentration camp, what would you demand happen to the soldier?
The same should happen to all abortion doctors and nurses and the mothers should be punished as well.
I remember when Virginia was a civilized state.
What happened?
And justly so.
The “when does life begin” timeline gets stretched later and later.
EC
I have to ask if this is covers a case where a child is born prematurely but with severe abnormalities and conditions that are incompatible with life.
In that case the parents my not want extreme life saving measures to be performed as it would not only be futile but cruel.
In rare cases such as this an infant may be given palliative care to ease their pain suffering but not given extreme life saving measures that are again futile and only prolongs the child’s suffering.
I had a friend whose brother and his wife gave birth prematurely to their first child who had Anencephaly which is a serious birth defect in which a baby is born without parts of the brain and skull.
Their child only lived a few minutes after birth, but they had also agreed with the neonatal care team that not extraordinary life saving measures should be employed.
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