All six Senate Democrats running for president joined with other members of their party Monday in blocking a bill that would require doctors to provide medical care for babies who survive abortion.
The bill received 53 “yes” votes – 50 from Republicans and three from Democrats – which was seven short of the 60 needed to end a Democrat-led filibuster. All 43 “no” votes came from Democrats. It was the first roll-call vote on the bill, which previously had been blocked in a unanimous consent request.
The bill is known as the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act and applies only to cases “of an abortion or attempted abortion that results in a child born alive,” according to the text.
It says “any health care practitioner present” during such a case must “exercise the same degree of professional skill, care, and diligence to preserve the life and health of the child” as a “reasonably diligent and conscientious health care practitioner would render to any other child born alive at the same gestational age.”
The bill requires that the baby who survives an abortion be “immediately transported and admitted to a hospital.”
The six senators running for president – Amy Klobuchar (Minn.), Kamala Harris (Calif.), Cory Booker (N.J.), Elizabeth Warren (Mass.), Kirsten Gillibrand (N.Y.) and Bernie Sanders (Vt.) — voted to block the…
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