The U.S. Senate defeated a bill Tuesday that would require medical treatment for an unborn baby that survives an abortion, with 41 Democrats joining together to filibuster the legislation and prevent it from receiving a floor vote.
The bill, known as the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, would require that a baby “born alive is immediately transported and admitted to a hospital.”
“If an abortion results in the live birth of an infant, the infant is a legal person for all purposes under the laws of the United States, and entitled to all the protections of such laws,” the bill says.
Needing 60 votes to overcome a filibuster, the bill received only 56, with three Democrats (Bob Casey, Joe Manchin and Doug Jones) joining 53 Republicans to try and defeat the filibuster. The 41 Democrats who filibustered the bill included Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer. Three U.S. senators who are running for president, including Bernie Sanders, were not present for the vote.
The bill’s sponsor, Republican Sen Ben Sasse (Neb.), insisted during floor debate the bill was “not about abortion” but instead about “babies that are already born.”
“The bill we’re voting on doesn’t change anyone’s access to abortion. It doesn’t have anything to do with Roe v. Wade,” he said.
Democrats, Sasse said, were using “euphemisms about choice” in order to avoid…
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