Montana Voters Need to Support LR-131 to Protect Babies Who Survive Abortions

This year’s midterm elections have the highest combined total of abortion-related ballot measures in a single year ever recorded in the United States. While most states are moving to either promote abortion or protect unborn life, Montana has opted to go in a slightly different direction, turning its attention to infants who are born alive after failed abortion attempts.

Despite what pro-abortion activists might have you believe, infants are sometimes born alive after failed abortions. As of 2021, at least 215 infants in six states are known to have been born alive following an abortion attempt (see these numbers under “Reporting Requirement” for the following states on FRC’s Born Alive Protections map: Arizona, Florida, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Texas). It’s important to note that currently, only 10 states (representing about 30% of the country’s population) require any sort of reporting on these cases, and not all share the collected data publicly. States with the largest populations that carry out the most abortions, such as California and New York, are notably absent from this list.

The lack of protections for infants who survive abortion across the states, especially in places like New York and Illinois that have recently repealed laws that protected abortion survivors, has propelled this issue into the national spotlight. Last year, congressional Republicans launched a discharge petition that, if 218 members sign, will force the House of Representatives to hold a vote on the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, a federal bill that would require a bare minimum standard of care and diligence for all infants born-alive, even those who survive an abortion. Currently, this petition is four signatures shy of the 218 signatures needed to force a vote…. (Excerpt from LIFENEWS.COM)