‘Protection is now gone’: Extremists working to make abortion legal … AFTER BIRTH!

When the faulty Roe v. Wade abortion precedent was struck down just a few years ago by the U.S. Supreme Court, the predictable happened: States where the right to life was recognized and considered important assembled new limits for abortion, so that it would happen only in rare circumstances.

At the same time, those states run by pro-abortion radicals moved the other direction, embedding the “right” to abortion in the state constitution as Colorado leftists did, and more.

Even now, to the point that a couple of those states with extremist agendas on abortion have decided to allow the deaths of children who survive an abortion.

That is, children who are alive after an abortion attempt can, legally, simply be left to die.

In Minnesota and California.

The ideology was expressed in words by former Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam, who said, “When we talk about third-trimester abortions, these are done with the consent of, obviously, the mother, with the consent of the physicians — more than one physician, by the way — and it’s done in cases where there may be severe deformities, there may be a fetus that’s nonviable.

“So, in this particular example, if a mother’s in labor, I can tell you exactly what would happen. The infant would be delivered. The infant would be kept comfortable. The infant would be resuscitated if that’s what the mother and the family desired, and then a discussion would ensue between the physicians and the mother.”

The remarks, even conditioned on the concept of “severe deformities,” was viewed to be in support of allowing alive infants to die.

Now the American Center for Law and Justice, which has fought battles for the pro-life movement up and down America’s courts, has issued a report that two states already have moved that direction.

Minnesota and California.

In Minnesota, the state now in turmoil because of agitators who actively are fighting in the streets against ICE agents trying to enforce America’s border and immigration laws, for decades a simple truth was evident.

“A child born alive is a human being entitled to the same legal protections as any other person. The law explicitly required that reasonable medical measures be taken to preserve the life and health of an infant who survived an abortion. It treated birth as a legal and moral line – one that demanded action, accountability, and care aimed at preserving life,” the report said.

“That protection is now gone,” it continued. “In 2023, Minnesota lawmakers passed – and Governor Tim Walz signed into law – legislation that repealed the requirement that medical professionals take reasonable steps to preserve the life of a born-alive infant. Whereas Minnesota’s prior law affirmatively required medically appropriate, lifesaving care for infants born alive after abortion attempts, the new law does not. Instead, it requires only that an infant be ‘cared for’ – a deliberate downgrade in legal obligation. During legislative debate, the bill’s own author confirmed what that change was intended to accomplish: The new standard was meant to require ‘comfort care,’ not lifesaving treatment. That distinction matters. Comfort care may temporarily ease suffering, but it does nothing to preserve life.”

The report continued, “Now viable babies – fully born, alive, and capable of surviving with basic medical intervention – may be set aside, kept warm, and allowed to die.”

Likewise, in California, “The ACLJ sounded the alarm as Assembly Bill 2223 advanced through the legislature and was signed into law by Governor Gavin Newsom. The bill contained language that would restrict investigations and reporting of certain infant deaths, including those of children in the perinatal period who survived attempted abortion procedures – potentially shielding individuals, including providers, from civil or criminal liability for those deaths,” the report said.

There, the state used the word “perinatal” which includes up to a month after the child is born, instead of “prenatal,” meaning before birth, to create a law that “could effectively legalize infanticide.”

The report warned, “This is not a matter of speculation or political rhetoric. It is the direct result of deliberate statutory changes – changes that now allow a living, breathing infant to be denied medical intervention or their deaths to be investigated simply because that child’s life is deemed inconvenient and shield abortion providers who profit from their deaths.”

Lawmakers at the state level today, the report said, “are quietly rewriting laws in ways that strip protections from the most vulnerable, including infants born alive after failed abortions – effectively legalizing infanticide.”