N.C.'s Democratic governor vetoes anti-infanticide legislation

Senate Bill 359 was passed out of the North Carolina House of Representatives and sent to Cooper earlier this week. Like similar federal legislation that is currently the subject of a discharge petition in the House of Representatives, it is titled the “Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act.”

The North Carolina legislation would have required that children who survive botched abortion attempts be given the same degree of lifesaving medical care “as a reasonably diligent and conscientious health care practitioner would render to any other child born alive at the same gestational age.” Failure to do so would have been classified as a felony punishable with a fine of up to $250,000.

“Laws already protect newborn babies and this bill is an unnecessary interference between doctors and their patients,” reads a statement from Cooper’s office. “This needless legislation would criminalize doctors and other healthcare providers for a practice that simply does not exist.”


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N.C.’s Democratic governor vetoes anti-infanticide legislation, offers misleading excusesNate Madden · April 18, 2019  
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damircudic | Getty ImagesNorth Carolina’s Democratic Governor Roy Cooper vetoed a state-level anti-infanticide bill Thursday morning.

Senate Bill 359 was passed out of the North Carolina House of Representatives and sent to Cooper earlier this week. Like similar federal legislation that is currently the subject of a discharge petition in the House of Representatives, it is titled the “Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act.”

The North Carolina legislation would have required that children who survive botched abortion attempts be given the same degree of lifesaving medical care “as a reasonably diligent and conscientious health care practitioner would render to any other child born alive at the same gestational age.” Failure to do so would have been classified as a felony punishable with a fine of up to $250,000.

“Laws already protect newborn babies and this bill is an unnecessary interference between doctors and their patients,” reads a statement from Cooper’s office. “This needless legislation would criminalize doctors and other healthcare providers for a practice that simply does not exist.”

In reality, current federal law passed in 2002 declares that abortion survivors are legal persons, but impose no legal penalties for medical professionals who willfully deny them lifesaving care after the fact. Alexandra DeSanctis has more details on that at National Review.