Every Senate Democrat voted Wednesday afternoon against invoking cloture on legislation requiring that babies who survive botched abortions receive medical care.
The Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, introduced by Republican Oklahoma Sen. James Lankford, requires that health care practitioners provide the “same degree of professional skill, care and diligence” for a child surviving a botched abortion as they would for a child during routine childbirth. With the Senate voting 52-47, the anti-infanticide legislation failed to overcome the 60-vote filibuster threshold.
“Yesterday my [Democratic] colleagues spent an hour on the floor saying that that child [who survives a botched abortion] should die,” Lankford said on the Senate floor Wednesday. “I disagree.”
“This is not just an academic issue. It’s real,” Lankford added. “It [infanticide] is already…
