WASHINGTON, D.C. –  Late yesterday evening, 44 U.S. Senate Democrats voted to block the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, which ensures that any infant who survives an attempted abortion is a legal person and will be treated with the same human dignity, respect, and treatment as any baby born after an attempted live birth.

President Trump said, “This will be remembered as one of the most shocking votes in the history of Congress. If there is one thing we should all agree on, it’s protecting the lives of innocent babies.”

Last night on the floor of the U.S. Senate, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said this bill “isn’t about new restrictions on abortion, it isn’t about changing the options available to women. It’s just about recognizing that a newborn baby is a newborn baby. Period.”

There have been more than 200 abortion survivors who have come forward and shared their stories. The act would have seen their humanity and recognized their right to receive medical treatment equal to any other newborn infant.



All prominent Democratic 2020 presidential hopefuls in the Senate voted down the measure, including Bernie Sanders of Vermont, Kamala Harris of California, Cory Booker of New Jersey, Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts. The final vote was 53-44 to end Democratic delaying tactics -- seven votes short of the 60 needed.

“I am stunned at the wide spread acceptance of Senate Democrats who are playing politics with the lives of newborn children,” said Mat Staver, Chairman of Liberty Counsel Action. “These babies are living, breathing human beings. They are completely separate from their mothers and yet Democrats are demanding these children be sacrificed on the altar of abortion. We must recognize that everyone has a constitutional right to life, no matter if they are one hour or one hundred years old,” said Staver.

Liberty Counsel Action is a 501(c)(4), nonprofit, grassroots organization advancing religious and civil liberties, the sanctity of human life, the family, limited and responsible government, national security, and support for Israel in Washington D.C. and across America.