Thread by @JillStanek

THREAD: Yesterday we heard #prochoice senators attempt four whopping lies to try to justify the unjustifiable: Voting against a bill to protect abortion survivors from infanticide.

I dismantle these lies in this thread:

#EndInfanticide

#1 LIE: Babies don’t survive abortion.

Well, of course they do, and #prochoice senators know it. This is a matter of public record, plus abortion survivors like @melissaohden and @giannajessen have stared many of these senators in the face.

Also, the CDC reported from 2003-14, 143 babies survived abortions (fate unknown) – in only 6 states reporting.

#2 LIE: The Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act is an abortion bill.

Oh, come on. This is only an abortion bill if #prochoice senators believe babies can be aborted post-birth. Really? No, in these cases the abortion has been completed. It’s over...

...The mother got what she wanted, an empty uterus. But if the “uterine contents” survive, then many of the very senators who opposed this bill voted unanimously 18 years ago that they’re legal persons with the same medical rights as all other babies this age.

#3 LIE: There is already a law against infanticide.

There are no requirements in federal law that abortion survivors receive medical care. Currently that decision is left to the doctor who was just paid to kill the baby. Conflict of interest much?

@SenatorDurbin points to Gosnell to promote this lie. The difference is Gosnell was convicted for actively killing abortion survivors. But babies currently have no protections against passively killing them by providing no medical help.

#4 LIE: The Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act would force doctors to provide futile and inhumane treatment of handicapped babies who are expected to die anyway.

No. All this bill does is mandate that abortion survivors receive equal treatment...

...the same medical care as a wanted baby the same age and/or with the same anomalies – not extraneous care.

Furthermore, a University of CA at San Francisco study, endorsed by @Guttmacher, concluded most late-term abortions are committed for the same reasons...

...as first trimester abortions – convenience, exploitive partner, finances – and abortions for anomalies “make up a small minority of later abortions.” In other words, most abortion survivors are babies completely healthy babies.

The question remains as to why #prochoice senators could possibly oppose a bill to protect babies from infanticide.

It’s simple. They get their marching orders from #PlannedParenthood, which provides them money and votes.

If @PPFA had given a thumbs up, they would have voted aye. But PPFA told them to vote against it. PPFA can’t admit abortion has anything to do with babies, but the bigger reason is this law would cut into PPFA’s profits and potentially cause legal trouble for their abortionists.

Plus, the doctors would have to use CPR, which I doubt any of them can remember.