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It was a simple Bill that Senator Ben Sasse (R-NE) tried to get passed by unanimous consent. If a baby is born alive after a botched abortion, medical professionals must do everything they can to keep it alive.
He couldn't get unanimous consent (where no one objects), but surely there were 60 United States Senators who would say yes?
No - only 53 which included three Dems (Joe Manchin of West Virginia, Bob Casey of Pennsylvania and Doug Jones or Alabama) and excluded three Republicans who did not vote. 44 Democrats found themselves able to vote NO and that number included all the prominent 2020 Presidential candidates in the Senate.
I'm talking about Bernie Sanders of Vermont, Kamala Harris of California, Cory Booker of New Jersey, Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts.
The President is clearly not happy.
According to Fox News: "The Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act would have required that "any health care practitioner present" at the time of a birth "exercise the same degree of professional skill, care, and diligence to preserve the life and health of the child as a reasonably diligent and conscientious health care practitioner would render to any other child born alive at the same gestational age."
The bill, which exempted the mother involved in the birth from prosecution, also would have required practitioners to "ensure that the child born alive is immediately transported and admitted to a hospital." It prescribed a possible term of imprisonment of up to five years for violations, not including penalties for first-degree murder that could have applied."
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