“They’re trying to defend something that’s fundamentally indefensible,” stated Senator Ben Sasse, who introduced the bill that protects survivors of botched abortions reports CBN News. “This bill is really simple, it says if a baby survives an abortion, we have an obligation to make sure she gets the same care that any other baby would get at that gestational stage.”

On the Senate floor, Sen. Sasse argued this case is not about abortion. “It’s about babies that have already survived a botched abortion. My legislation is not about Roe v. Wade,” said Sasse. “It’s about what happens after a baby is already born when an abortion failed to accomplish the purpose it had – the sad purpose in my view – but the purpose it had to terminate that pregnancy.”

Sasse stressed out that in the current legislative context such legislation is needed.

“There is a federal statute that prohibits infanticide, but it turns out it doesn’t have penalties associated with actually killing a baby and it doesn’t distinguish between active and passive killing,” explains Sasse. “Right now, all that’s really prohibited is if a baby survives an abortion, you can’t take a pillow and put it over her face and smother her to death, but you can walk away from her and put her on a cart, wheel her down the hallway, put her in a closet and leave her to die of exposure over 6 or 8 or 10 hours.”

When CBN News asked Democrat Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) for a response to Sasse’s argument that current laws do not protect against passive killing, he argued that’s not true—and called both bills voted on Tuesday in the Senate “extreme” and “dishonest”.

Source: breakingchristiannews.com