Senate Republicans failed on Wednesday to invoke cloture on a bill legislating care for infants “born alive” during attempted abortions, with the motion largely serving to get Democrats on the record as voting against a bill being framed as anti-infanticide. Republicans sought cloture on the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, a bill that requires health…

(Via the filibuster)

  • JRaccoon@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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    17 hours ago

    with the motion largely serving to get Democrats on the record as voting against a bill being framed as anti-infanticide

    Democrats have routinely criticized “born-alive” bills as being redundant because killing an infant who was born alive following an attempted abortion is already illegal.

    tl;dr: The bill would actually change nothing and it’s all political games.