Federal - S 311
Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act - S311
Introduced
January 31, 2019
Description
This bill would protect newborns that survive abortions by requiring appropriate care and admission to a hospital. The legislation requires that, when an abortion results in the live birth of an infant, health care practitioners must exercise the same degree of professional skill and care to protect the newborn as would be offered to any other child born alive at the same gestational age. It also requires that the living child, after appropriate care has been given, be immediately transported and admitted to a hospital. Currently federal law does not adequately protect a born child who survives an abortion.
Our Position
Original Sponsor 1
Co-Sponsors 50
- Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN)
- Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY)
- Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN)
- Sen. Roy Blunt (R-MO)
- Sen. John Boozman (R-AR)
- Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC)
- Sen. Mike Braun (R-IN)
- Sen. Shelley Capito (R-WV)
- Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA)
- Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX)
- Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR)
- Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-ND)
- Sen. Michael Crapo (R-ID)
- Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX)
- Sen. Steve Daines (R-MT)
- Sen. Michael Enzi (R-WY)
- Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA)
- Sen. Deb Fischer (R-NE)
- Sen. Cory Gardner (R-CO)
- Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC)
- Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA)
- Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO)
- Sen. John Hoeven (R-ND)
- Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS)
- Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK)
- Sen. Johnny Isakson (R-GA)
- Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI)
- Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA)
- Sen. James Lankford (R-OK)
- Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT)
- Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY)
- Sen. Martha McSally (R-AZ)
- Sen. Jerry Moran (R-KS)
- Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY)
- Sen. David Perdue (R-GA)
- Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH)
- Sen. Jim Risch (R-ID)
- Sen. Pat Roberts (R-KS)
- Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT)
- Sen. Mike Rounds (R-SD)
- Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL)
- Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL)
- Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC)
- Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL)
- Sen. Daniel Sullivan (R-AK)
- Sen. John Thune (R-SD)
- Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC)
- Sen. Patrick Toomey (R-PA)
- Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS)
- Sen. Todd Young (R-IN)
Latest Actions See More/Less
Feb. 25, 2020 — Senate Vote 58 Abortion Medical Care — Cloture
McConnell, R-Ky., motion to invoke cloture (thus limiting debate) on the McConnell motion to proceed to the bill that would require health care practitioners to provide the same care to a child that is "born alive" after an abortion or attempted abortion as they would for a child born at the same gestational age and to ensure the child is immediately transported and admitted to a hospital. It would establish penalties for any health practitioner who would violate these requirements, in the form of fines, imprisonment for not more than five years, or both. It would authorize the woman upon whom the abortion was performed or attempted to seek appropriate relief in a civil action against any individual who would violate these requirements. Motion rejected 56-41. Note: Three-fifths of the total Senate (60) is required to invoke cloture. A "yea" was a vote in support of the president's position. Congressional Record p. S1136-S1137Feb. 25, 2020 — McConnell, R-Ky., motion to proceed to the bill, pending at recess. Congressional Record p. S1136-S1137
Feb. 25, 2020 — Statement of Administration Policy issued by Office of Management and Budget.
Feb. 24, 2020 — McConnell, R-Ky., motion to invoke cloture (thus limiting debate) on the McConnell, R-Ky., motion to proceed to the bill (60 votes required), pending at recess.
Feb. 24, 2020 — McConnell, R-Ky., motion to proceed to the bill, pending at recess.
Feb. 13, 2020 — McConnell, R-Ky., motion to invoke cloture (thus limiting debate) on the McConnell, R-Ky., motion to proceed to the bill (60 votes required), pending at recess. Congressional Record p. S1062
Feb. 13, 2020 — McConnell, R-Ky., motion to proceed to the bill, withdrawn by unanimous consent. Congressional Record p. S1062
Feb. 25, 2019 — Senate Vote 27 Abortion Medical Care — Cloture
McConnell, R-Ky., motion to invoke cloture (thus limiting debate) on the McConnell motion to proceed to the bill that would require health care practitioners to provide medical care to any infant that survives an abortion procedure, to the extent legally required for any infant born at the same gestational age. Motion rejected 53-44. Note: Three-fifths of the total Senate (60) is required to invoke cloture. A "yea" was a vote in support of the president's position. Congressional Record p. S1422Feb. 25, 2019 — McConnell, R-Ky., motion to proceed to the bill, pending at recess. Congressional Record p. S1414-S1422
Feb. 25, 2019 — Statement of Administration Policy issued by Office of Management and Budget.
Feb. 25, 2019 — Additional cosponsor(s): 1
Gardner, (R-Colo.) Feb. 14, 2019 — McConnell, R-Ky., motion to invoke cloture (thus limiting debate) on the McConnell motion to proceed to the bill, pending at recess. Congressional Record p. S1364
Feb. 14, 2019 — McConnell, R-Ky., motion to proceed to the bill, pending at recess. Congressional Record p. S1364
Feb. 14, 2019 — Additional cosponsor(s): 1
Shelby, (R-Ala.) Feb. 7, 2019 — Additional cosponsor(s): 2
Paul, (R-Ky.) Scott, (R-Fla.) Feb. 6, 2019 — Additional cosponsor(s): 1
McSally, (R-Ariz.) Feb. 5, 2019 — Additional cosponsor(s): 2
Capito, (R-W.Va.) Toomey, (R-Pa.) Feb. 4, 2019 — Placed on the Senate Legislative Calendar under the provisions of Rule XIV. Congressional Record p. S817, S830
Feb. 4, 2019 — Additional cosponsor(s): 3
Alexander, (R-Tenn.) Lee, M. (R-Utah) Sullivan, (R-Alaska) Jan. 31, 2019 — Original cosponsor(s): 40
Barrasso, (R-Wyo.) Ernst, (R-Iowa) Perdue, (R-Ga.) Blackburn, (R-Tenn.) Fischer, (R-Neb.) Portman, (R-Ohio) Blunt, (R-Mo.) Graham, L. (R-S.C.) Risch, (R-Idaho) Boozman, (R-Ark.) Grassley, (R-Iowa) Roberts, (R-Kan.) Burr, (R-N.C.) Hawley, (R-Mo.) Romney, (R-Utah) Braun, (R-Ind.) Hoeven, (R-N.D.) Rounds, (R-S.D.) Cassidy, (R-La.) Hyde-Smith, (R-Miss.) Rubio, (R-Fla.) Cornyn, (R-Texas) Inhofe, (R-Okla.) Scott, T. (R-S.C.) Cotton, (R-Ark.) Isakson, (R-Ga.) Thune, (R-S.D.) Cramer, (R-N.D.) Johnson, R. (R-Wis.) Tillis, (R-N.C.) Crapo, (R-Idaho) Kennedy, John (R-La.) Wicker, (R-Miss.) Cruz, (R-Texas) Lankford, (R-Okla.) Young, T. (R-Ind.) Daines, (R-Mont.) McConnell, (R-Ky.) Enzi, (R-Wyo.) Moran, (R-Kan.) Jan. 31, 2019 — Introduced in the Senate and read the first time. Congressional Record p. S800
Commentary
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Commentary by Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE)
I asked the U.S. Senate to pass by unanimous consent the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act. This bill, which I originally introduced more than two years ago, would simply require doctors present during a botched abortion — an abortion that results in the birth of a living infant — to provide the same level of care that would be offered to any other baby at the same stage of development.
This is nothing more than the absolute minimum in humane treatment. A baby, gasping on an abortion-clinic table, should not be left to die.
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