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Today, the United States Senate voted on an anti-infanticide bill introduced by Senator Ben Sasse (R-Neb.), the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act. The legislation needed 60 votes to pass, and it failed by a vote of 53 in favor and 44 against. The bill stated that “if an abortion results in the live birth of an infant, the infant is a legal person for all purposes under the laws of the United States, and entitled to all the protections of such laws.” The 2002 Born Alive Infants Protection Act, signed into law by President George W. Bush, established that any...

Senate Democrats just voted against legislation to prevent the killing of newborn infant children. The Democrat position on abortion is now so extreme that they don’t mind executing babies AFTER birth.. ....This will be remembered as one of the most shocking votes in the history of Congress. If there is one thing we should all agree on, it’s protecting the lives of innocent babies.

The outcome here was never really in doubt. But it shows the strength of the abortion lobby that nobody except 3 red state Dems, neither of whom are 2020 candidates, budged on a measure that probably 90% of the country would support. The Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act failed 53 to 44. That's a bill that would compel doctors to treat babies born alive after a failed abortion. On the Republican side Senator Murkowski was busy washing her hair. As were two others. Not that it would have made much of a difference.