WASHINGTON — Today, the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act passed in the House of Representatives in a largely party line vote of 217-204. 

The following is a statement from Carol Tobias, president of National Right to Life:

Protecting babies born alive following an abortion should not be complicated. Pro-abortion Democrats in their dogged determination to support the abortion industry, claim that the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act would somehow interfere with unlimited abortions. Nothing could be further from the truth. There is no such thing as a “post-birth abortion.” This bill isn’t about a so-called right to abortion. It’s about stopping infanticide.

The Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act is life-saving legislation designed to protect a baby who is born alive following an abortion. 

The Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act requires that, when a baby is born alive following an abortion, health care practitioners must exercise the same degree of professional skill and care that would be offered to any other child born alive at the same gestational age. It also requires that, following appropriate care, health care workers must transport the living child immediately to a hospital. 

Current federal law does not sufficiently protect a child born following an abortion.

More information about babies born alive following an abortion can be found here.

Founded in 1968, the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC), the federation of 50 state right-to-life affiliates, is the nation’s oldest and largest grassroots pro-life organization. NRLC works through legislation and education to protect innocent human life from abortion, infanticide, assisted suicide, and euthanasia.