Date: February 25, 2020
Subject: Protecting Children Who Survive Abortion
Description: This bill, known as the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, sponsored by Sen. Sasse (R-NE), would ensure children who are born alive following a failed abortion receive appropriate medical care. Specifically, the bill would establish criminal penalties for health practitioners who fail to admit the child to a hospital immediately after a failed abortion or fail to exercise the same degree of care for a survivor as they would for any other child who is born alive. Democrats used the filibuster defeat this bill as the Senate failed to invoke cloture (end debate). A three-fifths majority vote, or 60 votes, were required to advance the bill.
Result: Cloture Motion Rejected, 56-41
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