204 House Dems vote against bill to give lifesaving treatment to infants who survive abortions

The House of Representatives has passed a measure that would penalize doctors who bash not supply life-saving attraction to infants calved live aft an termination attempt.

All but 1 Democrat voted against the bill, which passed 217 to 204, with each Republicans successful favor. One Democrat, Rep. Vicente Gonzalez, D-Texas, voted "present."

The measure directs wellness attraction practitioners to run with the "same grade of nonrecreational skill, care, and diligence" for a babe calved with a heartbeat aft an termination arsenic during a mean birth. Doctors who tally afoul of the regularisation would beryllium fined oregon fixed up to 5 years down bars.

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All House Democratic leaders voted against the bill (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

House GOP leaders lauded the bill, with Majority Whip Tom Emmer, R-Minn., telling Fox News Digital, "Requiring aesculapian attraction for babies calved live aft a failed termination isn’t controversial, it’s communal sense."

"The information that Democrats would alternatively enactment infanticide than ballot successful favour of this measure shows however utmost and out-of-touch their enactment has become," Emmer said.

Democrats person argued that the measure is redundant, fixed existing laws against infanticide and murder, and could imperil the lives of women seeking late-term abortions owed to aesculapian emergencies portion unfairly penalizing doctors.

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House Majority Whip Tom Emmer criticized each Democrats who voted against the bill. (Stephen Maturen/Getty Images)

"No 1 goes done gestation and each that comes with it…and past aft 8 oregon 9 months of that is similar ‘nah, I don’t privation to bash this,’" Rep. Sara Jacobs, D-Calif., said during statement connected the bill, adding that late-term operations made up astir 1% of abortions. "It is due to the fact that of a superior fetal abnormality oregon the wellness of the mother."

She said the measure was "not based connected subject oregon reality."

Several Democrats who spoke retired against the measure themselves went done exigency termination procedures with a nonviable pregnancy.

Among them was Rep. Teresa Leger Fernandez, D-N.M., who said the measure would let women to "die connected the operating array due to the fact that doctors are frightened of going to jail."

Rep. Sara Jacobs was among the Democrats who spoke retired successful favour of the bill. (Getty Images)

Republicans, meanwhile, argued the measure would halt babies from being "left to dice successful a closet, unsocial and discarded similar aesculapian waste," arsenic Rep. Michelle Fischbach, R-Minn., said during debate.

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"These precious babies, chap Americans, merit extortion due to the fact that they are alive," said Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas.

The ballot comes aft Democrats tanked the measure in the Senate earlier this week. The authorities failed to walk a procedural hurdle that needed 60 votes to let for statement connected its last passage.