Current federal law recognizes that all infants born at any stage of development, regardless of the circumstances surrounding the birth, are “persons.” But this recognition alone is insufficient to provide protections for infants born alive following an attempted abortion. The federal Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act would augment current law to require that proper medical care be given to an infant born alive following an abortion procedure and impose criminal consequences on health care providers who violate the law.
Abortion survivors celebrated the House passage of the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act on Capitol Hill, while Democrats called the bill "extreme."