By voting unanimously for the Born-Alive Infants Protection Act in July ’03, they affirmed an important pro-life principle, that, in the words of Prof. Hadley Arkes,
the child marked for an abortion, but born alive, has a claim to the protection of the law, and that claim cannot pivot on the question of whether anyone wanted her.
Read Prof. Arkes’ NR comment explaining the Act and the bizarre Federal court decision it overturned: one which denied a 20-day-old born child the right to life.
They voted for it, not because they value the lives of unwanted born children, but because it would have been political suicide for them not to have.
In the words of Rep. Jerald Nadler, of New York: “Momma didn’t raise no fool.”
I was referring to the Senate Dems, if that was unclear to anyone.