It was reported that Republican Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon has signed the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act into law, legislation requiring doctors to care for babies born alive during botched abortions.
“Any physician performing an abortion shall take medically appropriate and reasonable steps to preserve the life and health of an infant born alive,” the legislation, Senate File 34, said. It will go into effect in July.
According to the Daily Caller:
Gordon vetoed a similar bill last year, saying that it could “harm people it never intended to harm,” such as parents who receive “the devastating news that their pregnancy is not viable.” He also said the state already had legislation protecting “children from being denied lifesaving care simply because they were born as a result of an abortion.”
Gordon’s communications director Michael Pearlman told the Daily Caller News Foundation Wednesday that “last year’s Born Alive bill was different from the one brought this year.”
“In the Governor’s opinion, this bill met with the Governor’s pro-life and pro-family convictions,” Pearlman said.
The legislation formerly said that “the commonly accepted means of care that would be rendered to any other infant born alive shall be employed in the treatment of any viable infant aborted alive with any chance of survival.”
The new legislation amends the bill to remove the clause “with any chance of survival.”
Nathan Winters of Family Policy Alliance said in a statement that “Wyoming has taken the important step of protecting these vulnerable citizens taking their first breath of Wyoming air.”
abortion’s should be out lawed 100% and this would never happen…