Missouri enacts law requiring medical care for newborns who survive abortions
The Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act guarantees any “child born alive during or after an abortion or an attempted abortion shall have all the rights, privileges, and immunities available to other persons, citizens, and residents of this state, including any other liveborn child”; and specifically mandates that he or she be given the “same degree of professional skill, care, and diligence to preserve the life, health, and comfort of the child as a reasonably diligent and conscientious health care provider would render to any other child born alive at the same gestational age.”
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