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Introduced January 15, 2025 by James Lankford · Last progress 1 year ago
Introduced in Senate
Requires that any infant born alive after an abortion or attempted abortion be treated and hospitalized immediately and given the same legal protections as any newborn. Creates new federal criminal penalties (including fines and up to five years in prison) for health care practitioners who fail to provide required care or to report noncompliance, treats intentional killing of such an infant as murder under existing law, bars prosecution of the pregnant woman, and authorizes a civil lawsuit for the woman; the law takes effect one day after enactment.