Wisconsin Senate Passes Bill to Stop Infanticide, Provide Medical Care for Babies Who Survive Abortions
October 4, 2021 | Wisconsin
The Wisconsin Senate passed a bill Tuesday to protect newborn babies who survive abortions from infanticide.
Sponsored by state Sen. Roger Roth, R-Appleton, the Born Alive Abortion Survivor Act (Senate Bill 16) passed in a 19-12 party-line vote, the AP reports.
The bill would require abortionists and any health care provider to give the same degree of medical care to a baby who survives an abortion that they would to any other child born at the same gestational age. It also would require that the baby be transferred to a hospital for further care. Anyone who violates the legislation could be charged with a felony, fined up to $10,000 or both.
“Regardless of the circumstances of how a baby comes into this world, he or she must have the same rights and protections that you and I have,” Roth said earlier this month…. (Excerpts from LIFENEWS.COM)
