Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act (S.130)

On Monday, February 25, the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act (S.130) will receive a vote on the Senate floor. It is abhorrent that currently, it is legal for medical practitioners to refuse medical care to a baby born during a failed abortion procedure, leaving the young child to die. This legislation would fix this by requiring medical practitioners to administer medical care to the infant child.

All you need to know about this issue is the story of Melissa Ohden, a born-alive abortion survivor:

As House lawmakers plan to vote on a bill to protect survivors of abortion the same week as the March for Life, one abortion survivor says she hopes Congress passes the measure to save babies who are left to die.

“I survived my birth mother’s saline infusion abortion 40 years ago at St. Luke’s Hospital in Sioux City, Iowa,” Melissa Ohden, a survivor of a failed abortion in 1977, told The Daily Signal in an email.

“Although there were demands made to leave me to die in that hospital room that day,” she said, “ultimately a nurse rushed me off to the NICU [Neonatal Intensive Care Unit], because, in her words, I ‘just kept gasping for breath,’ and she couldn’t just leave me there to die.”

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