Washington – The Democrats of the US Senate blocked the legislation on Wednesday, the punishments for relatives of the health professions, who tried not to offer medical care for infants after abortion. Deadly fetal diagnosis.
The Republicans said that the topic should borrow the similarities between the two political parties and cite a “gap” in the federal law, which could enable health service providers to die a child instead of using medical interventions.
The 52-47 procedural vote The support of at least 60 senators needed to advance according to the legislative filibusters of the chamber, but no democrats voted to move the bill to the final passage. The Republican Senator from Tennessee, Bill Hagerty, did not give a vote.
The vote was the first time this year that the Republicans, who are now checking both the house and the Senate, raised an abortion calculation. The vote took place on the anniversary of the decision of Roe against Wade, which in 1973 set a constitutional right to abortion but was lifted by the Supreme Court in 2022.
The Republican Senator of Oklahoma, James Lankford, who sponsored the Eight-page calculationSaid the debate about the legislation was “not only an academic problem”, but one with real effects.
“It’s occasional, but the question is, what do we do in these situations. How do we pursue that? How do we deal with it? “, He said.
When an abortion leads to a living child, Lankford said: “Current practice is that everyone allows a kind of deficit and the child allows you to die on the table by exposure. But when everyone can step back and see the child dying, that’s okay. “
Lankford quoted the story of Melissa Ohden, a woman he tried after an abortion because an intensive care unit for newborns or an intensive care unit who caught her crying and breathing in a bunch of medical waste before hurried to the emergency room for medical care. Ohs is the founder and CEO of the abortion survivor.
“Years later she learned that her adoptive mom had adopted her because her birth mother literally didn’t know that she was still there. The birth mother was never told that the abortion, the quote did not quote, did not work, ”he said.
“Killing a baby is illegal in every single state”
The Democratic Senator of Washington State, Patty Murray, said during a floor speech on Tuesday that the law was a “appearance” and a “shame” before he found that “killing a baby in every single state”.
“In fact, in 2002 we passed a law that made this crystal clear. I would know because I was here. It has passed unanimously, ”said Murray. “Doctors are already legally obliged to ensure adequate medical care for every child born in this country.”
The legislation, she said, would have “created a new government mandate that would override the best judgment of grieving families who find out that their fetus has a fatal condition”.
“And it would create new, medically unnecessary obstacles for doctors and patients, at a time when doctors have already bound their hands when it comes to ensuring a fundamental medical health care,” said Murray.
The Democratic Senator of New Hampshire, Jeanne Shaheen, said during a press conference on Wednesday before the vote that she was not concerned about Republicans, against which the vote against the vote was used Vulnerable incumbent for re -election in 2026.
“I am now in seven nationwide races in New Hampshire and in each individual of these races attacked by Republicans because I have allowed support for women to make their own decisions,” said Shaheen.
“It is not a decision that I should make as a senator to make the court who should make the men who are in the Senate,” she added. “It is a decision for women and their families. And for those who do not understand that, they are on the wrong side of morality in this case. “
The Senator of Georgia, Jon Ossoff and the Senator of Michigan, Gary Peters, are the most endangered Democrats for the election in 2026, both of whom won the president of the state, Donald Trump, in the presidential election in November.
Details of the Senate legislation
Lankford’s legislation would have obliged medical providers to “preserve the life and health of the child, since a somewhat hardworking and conscientious doctor for health care for every other child living in the same pregnancy would be transferred”.
The legislation adds that anyone who “intentionally executes or tries to carry out an open action that a child kills”, “deliberately kill or try to kill a person”.
It is already illegal to kill children or adults according to the federal law and government laws.
The house correct 217-204 authorize His own version of the invoice, Sponsored by Missouri Republican Rep. Ann Wagner and With 159 GOP legislatorson Thursday. But without democratic support in the Senate, the law will not make it to Trump’s desk.
The Texas MP Henry Cuellar was the only democrat that voted for the bill, while Rep. Vicente Gonzalez, D-Texas.
Wagner’s house bill seemed to be very similar to the Senate version, although the two were not identified as “related invoices” in the congress database on Wednesday.
The house Approved a version of the invoice two years ago Follow after a mostly party line 220-210 coordinationCuellar also votes for the legislative template and Gonzalez, which then also voted “present”.
The draft law did not become a vote in the Senate, which was checked by Democrats at that time.
The congress approved a similarly named, Born-Alive Infant Protection Act of 2002More than two decades ago with largely cross -party support.
Groups weigh a
Dr. Stella M. Dantas, President of the American College of Obstricians and Gynecologists, wrote in a statement that was sent to the newsroom that the “offensive legislation later does not reflect the reality of abortion during pregnancy, families, the devastating diagnoses Receive and restrict your ability to choose the path of medical care that is suitable for you. “
“This legislation is not evidence -based,” wrote Dantas. “Its effects fall with crushed weights on families who try to access reproductive care under devastating circumstances and limited how clinicians are able to ensure care.”
The American College of Obstricians and gynecologists writes about A website About the differences between abortion and perinatal palliative care that “the idea that the abortions are carried out after the submission of a fetus is” misinformation and that “there is no such procedure”.
Perinatal palliative care explains ACOG: “encompasses a coordinated care strategy that focuses on maximizing quality of life and the comfort for newborns who have life -limiting conditions in early childhood.”
“When providing perinatal palliative care, the aim is to relieve the suffering of the newborn and honor the values of the patients involved, namely the parents or parents of the newborn,” says the website. “Ultimately, the parents or parents decide in consultation with their doctor which course of the perinatal palliative care they should pursue.”
Eighteen Medical Organizational Darunter ACOG, the Society for Mother Fetal Medicine, the American Academy of Nursing and the American Academy of Pediatrics a letter To the congress on Wednesday, in order not to ask the legislators, not to adopt the legislative template.
Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America President Marjorie Dannenfelser published a written explanation that the 2024 elections showed that Americans have “clearly rejected the extreme Pro blurenda”.
“We can not continue to blind this baby that struggles for his life, be it in a hospital or in an abortion center, regardless of whether the little one is considered” searched “as” searched “or not,” wrote Dannenfelser. “These children must not be thrown away like garbage. With a novel administration in Washington and novel majorities in the Senate and in the house, there has never been a better or more urgent time to protect the lives of every newborn. “
A SBA website With regard to the legislation, it is clear that the 2002 law was “a step in the right direction”, but it did not contain any “enforcement mechanisms”.
“Federal Act and 31 countries protect the life of infants that were born alive after bilding abortions (state and federal laws are not necessarily superfluous either),” says the website.
Anna Bernstein, main advisor to the federal government at the Guttmacher Institute, wrote in a statement to the news editorial team in a declaration that the draft law “the reality of the care will later be incorrectly presented during pregnancy and tries to criminalize and intimidate health service providers.”
“By maintaining disinformation and stigma, this law undermines reproductive autonomy and paves the way for political interference in deeply personal and painful decisions, especially for families that are subject to tragic situations such as fatal fetal diagnoses,” wrote Bernstein.
The Guttmacher Institute wrote it down, “it is strongly refused to make this legislative template, since it attempts to criminalize providers, disregard, disregard and maintain misinformation about abortion care.”
Last updated 5:54 p.m., January 23, 2025
