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Dear Friend, We urgently need you to contact your state Senators and encourage them to support the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act. A floor vote on the bill is expected as early as tomorrow! SB405 is a piece of common-sense legislation introduced by Senators Joyce Krawiec, Lisa Barnes, and Amy Galey, that is all about preventing infanticide. If there is anything that all senators and all North Carolinians should agree on—regardless of their political party or political convictions—it is that infanticide is wrong. That's an undeniable starting point for any moral and just society. We should all be able to agree that, once born, all children deserve protection. Protecting newborn babies is commonsense, regardless of political party or ideology. However, we have witnessed Governor Roy Cooper not only veto a previous version of the bill—Senate Bill 359—in Spring of 2019, but also used it to raise funds for his re-election campaign by labeling this bill an “attack on women’s rights”. Everyone should be able to agree that the circumstance of a child’s birth should not determine their right to life. Senate Bill 405 solidifies this truth by closing a loophole in state statutes and clarifies and codifies that any infant born alive is a legal person. The bill guarantees the right to life of baby girls and boys who born alive after a failed late-term abortion are entitled to full medical services. This bill is about infanticide, plain and simple. Over thirty states have laws offering at least some explicit protection to babies who survive abortions, but North Carolina has not established legal protections for born-alive infants. A state law is necessary to ensure that all infants who survive abortions are protected. PS: To read answers to some answers to frequently asked questions about the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protect Act, or to read some testimonies on born-alive abortion survival incidents, click here. Sincerely, Tami Fitzgerald |
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