Requires health care practitioners to give a child born alive during an abortion the same care they would give any other newborn of that gestational age, and to transport and admit the child to a hospital.

Official title: Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act

Outcome Blocked in the Senate: it did not get the 60 votes needed to end debate

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Senate

Introduced 15-JAN-2025

On the calendar 15-JAN-2025

Blocked 22-JAN-2025

Key points

Sets fines and up to 5 years in prison for practitioners who fail to give born-alive children the required care, and requires staff who know of such failures to report them to law enforcement
Punishes intentionally killing a child born alive as murder under federal law, and bars prosecuting the mother
Lets the woman who had the abortion sue for damages, including statutory damages of 3 times the abortion's cost and punitive damages, with fee awards depending on the outcome
Takes effect one day after enactment

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Official CRS summary

Current. The Congressional Research Service's summary covers the bill's latest wording (Introduced in Senate, 15-JAN-2025).

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Policy area

Crime and Law Enforcement

Sponsor James Lankford (R-OK) Cosponsors · 50

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