Born-Alive Bill Passes Texas House

(Austin, TX) — The Texas Born-Alive Infant Protection Act is scheduled for a final vote in the House today.

The Texas House gave its initial approval on Tuesday to the bill, which requires abortion doctors to provide medical care to a child born alive after a failed abortion. The bill passed by a 93-1 vote, with 50 Democrats refusing to vote on it, after refusing to debate the bill or try to amend it.

Under the bill, abortion doctors who fail to provide treatment for a baby they fail to kill before the child were to be accidentally born alive could get ten years in prison and be fined 100-thousand-dollars.