President Trump signed an executive order Friday ordering the Health and Human Services Department to ensure that federally funded facilities provide life-saving medical care for infants who survive abortions. Ralph Northam indicated in 2018 that doctors should be able to refuse life-saving care to infants who survive abortions. TESTIMONY FROM PLANNED PARENTHOOD, TISSUE PROCURER SHEDS LIGHT ON BABIES BORN ALIVE, WITH BEATING HEARTSEarlier this year, House Democrats rejected a measure -- the Born Alive Abortion Survivors Act -- that would have applied penalties to doctors who refuse to provide life-saving care. Former President George W. Bush passed the Born Alive Infant Protection Act in his first term, clarifying that infants born at any stage deserve the same protection as anyone else. Trump's order applies that law and EMTALA, which mandates emergency medical care, as benchmarks for whether federally-funded programs are in compliance.

Source: Fox News September 26, 2020 00:56 UTC