On February 11, the Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing concerning the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, a proposed law that threatens doctors with jail time for failing to provide medical care to live-born babies following unsuccessful abortion attempts.
By all expert accounts, live births following abortions are not actually a thing that happens, and according to attorney generals from around the country, not a single physician has ever been charged with or even suspected of denying medical care to a live-born infant after a botched abortion. Instead, the bill is a smear campaign meant to align abortion with infanticide in the public imagination.
But now it’s being resurrected, and the revival of the bill seems to fit into a greater strategy, one that conflates aborted fetuses with prematurely born babies in order to demonize both abortion seekers and abortion providers. Last year, after announcing a vote on the bill, Mitch McConnel wrote an op-ed for the Kentuckythat pretty well outlined the new tactic: “The American people deserve to know whether their senators stand with vulnerable children struggling for life.
For all the current hand-wringing about physicians’ supposed lack of concern for infants, in 2002, Congress passed the Born-Alive Protection Act, which grants full legal rights to all live-born babies. In 2013, state attorney generals from around the U.S. allthat they could not find a single case of physician infanticide following an abortion.
And this resurgence of an unnecessary, already voted down bill is nothing but a play at distraction, intended to get the anti-abortion crowd riled up about non-existent infanticides, rather than a genuine attempt to provide medical care, which according to many Republicans seems to be a desperate right for fetuses and an expensive privilege for the already-born.
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