National Right to Life proudly unveiled its 12th annual “Status of Abortion in the United States”. Stocked with invaluable information, the 50 page report brings together the talents of NRLC’s veteran experts who’ve been combing through all the latest data to bring you the most up-to-date information.
On Wednesday we discussed the introduction written by NRLC President Carol Tobias, “Abortion in America,” “Chemical Abortions” along with “Federal Policy and Abortion.” Today we’ll analyze “Understanding the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act”; “The Hyde Amendment”; and “The Equal Rights Amendment.”
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Democrats are hot to kill as many unborn babies as possibly but frigid when it comes to providing equal medical treatment for babies who survivor the abortionist’s best efforts to kill them. Here’s how to understand what pro-lifers are attempting to do:
The Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act is a proposed federal law aimed at closing critical gaps left by the Born-Alive Infants Protection Act of 2002. While the 2002 law recognized that any infant born alive, regardless of the circumstances of birth—including following an abortion attempt—is a person under U.S. law, it did not include specific requirements for the medical care of such infants or penalties for failing to provide care. The Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act addresses these omissions by requiring healthcare professionals to provide the same medical care to abortion survivors that would be given to any other infant born at the same gestational age.
In other words, there is a critical gap in the Born-Alive Infants Protection Act of 2002—there is no enforcement mechanism when abortion survivors are abandoned. The Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act is intended to ensure that all infants, regardless of the circumstances of their birth, are afforded the same rights and medical care.
The Hyde Amendment is familiar to all pro-lifers. By choking off federal payments for almost all abortions, the legislation—which must be renewed each appropriations cycle—has saved an estimated 2.5 million lives. To the Abortion Industry, this is a tragedy, victims who have escaped their tender mercies.
Naturally, pro-abortion President Joe Biden violated Hyde-Related Provisions in many areas. President Donald Trump is busy restoring those funding limitations.
Pro-abortion attempts to pass the Equal Right Amendment never cease, even though the deadline to secure the necessary 38 states for ratification expired on March 22, 1979.
Even the Washington Post Fact Checker agreed in a story that ran on February 9, 2022:
[E]very time the issue has been litigated in federal court, most recently in 2021, the pro-ERA side has lost, no matter whether the judge was appointed by a Democrat or Republican…. Moreover, two major court rulings have concluded that the ERA’s ratification deadline, as set by Congress, has expired —a position embraced by both the Trump and Biden Justice Departments. The Supreme Court in 1982 also indicated support for the idea that the deadline has passed. (“The ERA and the U.S. archivist: Anatomy of a false claim,” Washington Post, February 9, 2022, also awarding Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney “Four Pinocchios” for her claims that the Archivist of the U.S. could and should unilaterally add the ERA to the U.S. Constitution.)
Subsequently there have been more defeats for the ERA revivalists.
Be sure to read the report in its entirety.
LifeNews.com Note: Dave Andrusko is the editor of National Right to Life News and an author and editor of several books on abortion topics. This post originally appeared in at National Right to Life News Today —- an online column on pro-life issues.
