Today, during the 45^th annual March for Life Rally in Washington, D.C., the U.S. House of Representatives passed 241-183, the Born-Alive Abortion Survivor’s Protection Act, the bill which requires that appropriate medical care be given to any child who survives an attempted abortion.

Known as H.R. 4712, the bill “amends the federal criminal code to require any health care practitioner who is present when a child is born alive following an abortion or attempted abortion to: (1) exercise the same degree of care as reasonably provided to any other child born alive at the same gestational age, and (2) ensure that such child is immediately admitted to a hospital. The term ‘born alive’ means the complete expulsion or extraction from his or her mother, at any stage of development, who after such expulsion or extraction breathes or has a beating heart, pulsation of the umbilical cord, or definite movement of voluntary muscles, regardless of whether the umbilical cord has been cut.” 

An individual who violates the provisions of this bill is subject to a criminal fine, up to five years in prison, or both. However, mothers will never be held criminally accountable.

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