Pro-lifers implore PP, 'Let Them Live'

Americans United for Life has launched a campaign to ensure that babies born alive during abortion are given medical treatment.

Kristi Hamrick, a spokesperson for Americans United for Life Action (AULA), tells American Family News what motivated the launch of the "Let Them Live" campaign.

"Recently in Florida, Planned Parenthood testified that it was acceptable to allow children to die when they are alive, living, struggling in an abortion clinic," she notes. "Basically, they endorsed infanticide, and that is where abortion law is today."



Alisa LaPolt Snow, the Planned Parenthood lobbyist testifying against Florida's Born Alive Infants Protection Act, told the state House panel the decision of whether or not a baby who survives abortion is allowed to live is between the mother and the doctor.

Rep. Jim Boyd (R) asked her at the hearing, "If a baby is born on a table as a result of a botched abortion, what would Planned Parenthood want to have happen to that child who is struggling for life?"

"Well, we believe that any decision that's made should be left up to the woman, her family, and the physician," replied Snow, reportedly shocking the panel.

But Hamrick contends that once the baby emerges from the womb, moving and struggling to breathe, he or she is a patient -- not an aborted fetus.

"And that's what's interesting -- the Florida legislators confronted the Planned Parenthood lobbyist and said, Isn't there now another individual deserving care? And she was not willing to say that that was the case," the pro-lifer details.

Hamrick's organization is encouraging the public to sign a letter to Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards, demanding that she take a formal stand for providing medical care for babies who survive abortion.

Source: American Family News