Opinion: The politics of infanticide - News - poconorecord.com
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The U.S. Senate failed to pass a bill that would require health care professionals to provide life-saving medical care to babies born alive after a failed abortion.It's difficult to write such a sentence without recoiling.Yet, all but three Senate Democrats - Bob Casey Jr., Joe Manchin and Doug Jones - voted against the bill.The Senate voted down the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act by a count of 53-44.All of the Democrats running for president in 2020 voted against it: Bernie Sanders (Vt.), Kamala Harris, Cory "I am Spartacus" Booker, Kirsten Gillibrand, Amy Klobuchar and Elizabeth Warren.You have to give Casey, Manchin and Jones credit I suppose, though I'm not sure how we got to the point in this country where not supporting infanticide makes you an outlier.It occurs to me that Democrats often chide Republicans and the National Rifle Association for viewing every attempt at firearms regulation, no matter how sensible or tangential, as a slippery slope toward full-blown repeal of the Second Amendment. It seems the ultimate irony that these same Democrats, who support gun control as a way to save lives, have no problem casting a vote for infanticide.No Democrats acknowledged the anomaly. Instead, this was all about women's health, they said, one after another."This bill is just another line of attack in the ongoing war on women's health," Sen. Jeanne Shaheen said before the vote.Neither Shaheen nor anyone else could adequately explain exactly how this bill is a "war on women's health." Probably because it isn't."That is the actual intent of this bill, reducing access to safe abortion care would threaten the health of women in Hawaii," Mazie Hirono said on the Senate floor.This bill isn't about health care for women. It isn't even about abortion because the legislation wouldn't have affected access to abortion in
