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Illinois Federation For Right to Life Daily News
Date: Friday, July 27th, 2001
Volume: 010727

House Judiciary Committee Ok's Born Alive Infants Protection Act
http://www.ifrl.org/newstory/985

WASHINGTON -- The House of Representatives Judiciary Committee has approved
legislation providing legal protection to newborn babies.

The committee voted 25-2 July 24 to report out the Born Alive Infants
Protection Act, H.R. 2175. The bill would grant federal protection to any
newborn child fully outside his mother's womb.

The Senate already has approved its version of such legislation. Senators
voted 98-0 in late June for the measure as an amendment to the Patients' Bill
of Rights.

The bill was first proposed last year after the U.S. Supreme Court struck
down a state ban on partial-birth abortion and after congressional testimony
was heard describing an abortion method in which newborns who survive are
allowed to die. The procedure, which nurses testified is used at Christ
Hospital in Chicago, is called live-birth abortion. Babies are induced, and
if they fail to die during the process, they are left unattended to die.

The House of Representatives easily approved the bill last year, but the
Senate failed to act on it.

Nearly all other pro-life organizations have endorsed the bill.

Source: BP; July 26th, 2001

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