Two major pro-choice groups and a prominent Democratic representative are criticizing President Trump’s executive order that requires medical personnel to protect babies who survive an abortion.
Trump issued the executive order on Friday, two days after he told a Catholic group he would be signing a “born-alive executive order to ensure that all precious babies born alive, no matter their circumstances, receive the medical care that they deserve.”
Democratic Rep. Diana DeGette (Colo.) criticized Trump the day he signaled he would be signing the order. She is co-chair of the Congressional Pro-Choice Caucus.
“President Trump just announced he will sign an executive order that seeks to limit women’s access to reproductive care,” DeGette tweeted. “This is yet another egregious attack on women’s rights. We will not sit idly by and allow this administration to strip away our rights!”
🚨BREAKING: President Trump just announced he will sign an executive order that seeks to limit women’s access to reproductive care.
This is yet another egregious attacks on women’s rights.
We will not sit idly by and allow this administration to strip away our rights!
— Rep. Diana DeGette (@RepDianaDeGette) September 23, 2020
The order, known as the Executive Order on Protecting Vulnerable Newborn and Infant Children, was released Friday and states that “every…
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