“There is not a state in this country where it is legal to kill a baby after it is born,” ABC moderator Linsey Davis stated during the September 10 presidential debate between former President Donald Trump and Vice-President Kamala Harris. This misleading claim was made before 60 million television viewers at the expense of babies who are born alive after an abortion in the United States and denied medical care for their survival.
In efforts to provide each baby the opportunity to pursue life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness - the three rights that bestowed upon all humans by their Creator as stated in the United States Declaration of Independence - the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act has been introduced in the 114th, 115th, 116th, 117th, and 118th U.S. Congresses.
This bill passed the House on January 11, 2023, establishing requirements for the degree of care a health care practitioner must provide in the case of a child born alive following an abortion or attempted abortion.
The bill has been repeatedly blocked in the U.S. Senate, including by Harris while she served in the Senate.
Jim Daly, president of Focus on the Family, has courageously come forward to recognize the statement made by ABC’s Davis as nothing less than a lie to those 60 million individuals in the debate audience.
“Babies born after failed abortions have been legally abandoned and have died,” Daly said on a Focus on the Family blog - adding that this is in fact infanticide.
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All babies have value and are worthy of equal opportunity to live their lives, yet some are not given this chance.
To deny a baby born alive after an abortion the opportunity for life is to devalue the meaning of life itself, and to deem that baby unworthy of such life.
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How can one decide which lives are worthy of necessary medical intervention to save their life and which are unworthy?
Does this decision depend on whether the mother wants to be a mother?
Does this decision depend on whether anyone in the room for the birth would proclaim that this child’s life has value, and that the baby is worthy of medical intervention for the chance to live their life?
Denying protection and medical care for babies born alive after an abortion represents a serious moral dilemma.
Abortion data within the United States continues to be unreliable due to abortion reporting remaining voluntary and incomplete, with states setting their own reporting standards.
Three states do not collect or report abortion data, according to Charlotte Lozier Institute (CLI). CLI goes on to make known that just 26 states reported abortion data through 2022.
With data on abortion procedures in 24 states completely unreported this reveals an alarming gap in reported data and the full picture.
Given the lack of complete abortion data, how can an accurate number of abortion failures be known?
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Keeping the inaccuracy of abortion numbers in mind, a very low estimate based on available data discloses that at least 10,000 late term abortions occur per year in the United States. These late-term abortions open the door for the possibility that babies could be born alive, with a second chance to live - provided they are given medical intervention.
The Abortion Survivors Network shares that only 10 out of 50 states within the United States require reporting on babies born alive after abortions.
Additionally, “data from the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has revealed that over the course of 12 years, more than a hundred infants were reported to have survived abortions,” according to a Live Action News report.
Abortionist Dr. Cesare Santangelo, owner of late-term abortion facility Washington D.C. Surgi-Clinic, admitted during a Live Action investigation that a child born alive during an abortion would be denied the medical care necessary to survive, saying, “we would not help it.”
The question to consider is not whether babies are born alive after abortion procedures, but rather, how many are born alive after abortion procedures.
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Are these babies receiving medical intervention to preserve their lives?
This poses a follow-up question that mandates emphasis and pause; why would legal protection guaranteeing a baby born alive after an abortion to receive the medical care necessary for their survival be blocked by Democrat presidential nominee Harris during her tenure as a U.S. senator?
If the statement as a major news network moderator claimed on national TV is true, that “there is not a state in this country where it is legal to kill a baby after it is born,” what is the problem with providing legal protection to ensure the babies born alive after an abortion receive the medical care they need to live?
Daly is calling on ABC News and Davis to admit their deception and dishonesty to the American people. It wouldn’t take much time or research to fact check Davis’s statement and find it fails the check and is a lie.
Voters - and unborn children - across the U.S. deserve nothing less.
