43 Congress members gathered at a minority hearing to hear moving testimony from several sources about children left to die after an abortion procedure fails. Republican Congress members rallied together and signed a discharge petition designed to force a vote on the Born-Alive Survivors Protection Act, a bill brought forward by Representative Ann Wagner from Missouri requiring healthcare practitioners to provide the same level of care to children born when abortions fail as they would to other children born at the same gestational age.The testimony included a story from Jill Stanek, a nurse who in 1999 found a baby with down syndrome abandoned in a utility room after a late-term abortion failed. The discharge petition currently has 201 signatures, but 218 are required to force a vote on the bill. You can watch the full testimony below or click here to read more.
