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House Dems block Republican abortion bill
By Dan McKay / Journal Staff Writer
Updated: Thursday, March 2nd, 2017 at 8:30pm
SANTA FE – Democrats in the state House on Thursday blocked Republican efforts to pass a law requiring doctors to provide medical care if an infant is born alive during an attempted abortion.
The House Consumer and Public Affairs Committee heard emotional testimony and debate for about two hours – as supporters of the legislation described the horrors of botched abortions and the killing of infants.
abqjournal.com/961007/democrats-reject-born-alive-law-for-botched-abortions.htmlBut in the end, the committee’s three Democrats voted to table the bill, preventing it from proceeding through the Legislature. . . .
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Democrats Kill Bill to Protect Babies Born Alive After Botched Abortions
State Micaiah Bilger Mar 6, 2017 | 11:59AM Santa Fe, New Mexico
New Mexico House Democrats blocked a bill Thursday that would have required doctors to provide life-saving medical care to babies born alive after botched abortions.
The Democrat-majority state House committee voted to table the bill in a 3-2 party line vote, The Albuquerque Journal reports.
The bill, sponsored by Minority Whip Rod Montoya, a Republican, would have required abortion practitioners and other doctors to try to preserve the life and health of a baby born alive after a botched abortion. The bill also would have required the same protections for babies born in miscarriages and natural births, according to the report. It would have made it a first-degree felony to intentionally kill an infant born alive after one of these procedures.
lifenews.com/2017/03/06/democrats-kill-bill-to-protect-babies-born-alive-after-botched-abortions/“This is not an abortion bill,” Montoya said. “This is a human rights bill . . . .