I have previously decided to stay out of these threads and was hoping someone else would pick up on this but as they haven't I cannot let it just stand, because the claim that the Democrats voted in favour of infanticide is completely wrong and is just being used by Trump to wind up his evangelical base.

No doctor, or nurse, would ever allow infanticide to take place and they have reacted with justified outrage at such a suggestion.

What actually happened was that the Democrats refused to endorse a bill that sought to make illegal something that is already illegal. They did so because they regarded the bill as a stalking horse attempt to introduce a wider ban on abortion.

So unless you regard abortion as infanticide what is suggested just isn't true.

That's it. I won't enter a long debate on this but urge those interested to research the real facts.

Well if you actually read the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, you will know there is no restriction of abortion in it.

Yes there was a 2002 bill, but there is currently no existing federal legislation that mandates medical care for children born alive after an attempted abortion.

The legislation states: "Any infant born alive after an abortion or within a hospital, clinic, or other facility has the same claim to the protection of the law that would arise for any newborn, or for any person who comes to a hospital, clinic, or other facility for screening and treatment or otherwise becomes a patient within its care."

I'm no evangelical, and like many, believe that a baby deserves medical care after a botched abortion and should not be put down like a dog.

Edited by Penge Eagle (28 Feb 2019 12.03am)