The House of Representatives passed the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act. If approved, the legislation would require health practitioners to care for an infant that is born alive after a failed abortion, according to the law.
Protesters fill the Montana state Capitol rotunda in Helena, Mont., on Feb. 11, 2015, during a rally to show support in an attempt to change the Montana Constitution to define life as beginning at conception.Under the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, health care providers would be required to exercise the same degree of care as would reasonably be provided to a child born alive at the same gestational age and ensure that the child is admitted to a hospital, according to the law.
Both those who do not provide care or fail to report will be subject to a fine, up to five years in prison or both, according to the law.
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