Senate Majority Leader John Thune is planning a procedural vote this month on the Born Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act.

While federal law has protections in place to ensure that babies who survive abortions receive lifesaving medical treatment and are not merely left to die, the legislation doesn’t have strong criminal enforcement mechanisms to punish those who would let babies die who survive abortions.

Thune plans the vote for Friday, January 24th – to coincide with hundreds of thousands of pro-life Americans participating in the March for Life.

“This vote will ask Democrats to answer whether a living baby born after an attempted abortion should be provided with medical care or left to die,” Thune said from the Senate floor.

A leading pro-life group thanked Thune for setting up the vote on the pro-life bill, which Democrats are expected to oppose.

“Newborn survivors of abortion are about to get a bit more of the attention they deserve,” Frank Pavone of Priests for Life told LifeNews.

“Although passed by the House in the last session of Congress, Democrats blocked a Senate vote last year, and have opposed the bill in previous years,” Pavone said. “This bill has nothing to do with limiting access to abortion, but it is precisely the Democrats’ obsession with abortion that explains their opposition to this bill. It’s a terrifying logic: For them, after all, choice prevails over life. The baby in the womb is targeted for death, and death it shall have.

From Life News