Anonymous ID: 7b9fe1 April 26, 2019, 7:51 p.m. No.6329588   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>9603 >>9618 >>9625

Cooper vetoes NC ‘abortion survivors’ bill

 

RALEIGH

 

Gov. Roy Cooper vetoed a controversial abortion bill Thursday, saying it’s unnecessary and ill-advised.

 

The bill would create new criminal and civil penalties for infanticide, specifically for situations in which a baby survives an abortion procedure. The new punishments apply to doctors and nurses who don’t provide care for the surviving newborns.

 

Supporters of the “Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act” have not shown evidence of it happening in North Carolina. And if it were to happen, the perpetrator can already be charged with murder. But they say the bill is needed, to make sure it doesn’t happen.

 

Cooper disagreed.

 

“Laws already protect newborn babies and this bill is an unnecessary interference between doctors and their patients,” the Democratic governor said in his veto message. “This needless legislation would criminalize doctors and other healthcare providers for a practice that simply does not exist.”

 

Republicans quickly criticized the veto. In a joint statement two of the bill’s top supporters, Sen. Joyce Krawiec of Forsyth County and Rep. Pat McElraft of Carteret County, said that “caring for a living, breathing newborn infant is too restrictive for Governor Cooper’s radical abortion agenda.”

 

“We thought Democrats would agree that children born alive should be separate from the abortion debate, but it’s clear they want the ‘right to choose’ to even extend past birth,” they wrote.

 

However, Democrats have frequently pointed out that killing babies is already illegal, even without this bill. The N.C. Democratic Party tweeted support for Cooper on Thursday, calling it “a partisan bill grounded in anti-choice rhetoric, not medical science.”

 

https://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/article229409404.html

 

INFANTICIDE PUSH

Anonymous ID: 7b9fe1 April 26, 2019, 7:52 p.m. No.6329603   🗄️.is 🔗kun

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Do any of you really think that infanticide is legal in North Carolina today?” Democratic Rep. Susan Fisher of Asheville asked her Republican colleagues on Tuesday. “If so, then why didn’t you do anything to stop it in the decade you’ve had a supermajority?”

Anonymous ID: 7b9fe1 April 26, 2019, 7:53 p.m. No.6329618   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>6329588

However, Democrats have frequently pointed out that killing babies is already illegal, even without this bill. The N.C. Democratic Party tweeted support for Cooper on Thursday, calling it “a partisan bill grounded in anti-choice rhetoric, not medical science.”

Anonymous ID: 7b9fe1 April 26, 2019, 7:54 p.m. No.6329625   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>6329588

We thought Democrats would agree that children born alive should be separate from the abortion debate, but it’s clear they want the ‘right to choose’ to even extend past birth,” they wrote.

Anonymous ID: 7b9fe1 April 26, 2019, 8:02 p.m. No.6329697   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>9704 >>9712 >>9718 >>9731 >>9779 >>0098

North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper Vetoes Bill Protecting Abortion Survivors from Infanticide

 

North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper (D) vetoed a bill Thursday that would have protected infants who survive abortion from infanticide.

 

The Democrat governor vetoed Senate Bill 359, “An Act Establishing the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act.”

 

“Laws already protect newborn babies and this bill is an unnecessary interference between doctors and their patients,” the governor said in his veto message. “This needless legislation would criminalize doctors and other healthcare providers for a practice that simply does not exist.”

 

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/04/19/north-carolina-gov-roy-cooper-vetoes-bill-protecting-abortion-survivors-from-infanticide/

Anonymous ID: 7b9fe1 April 26, 2019, 8:02 p.m. No.6329704   🗄️.is 🔗kun

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Claire Culwell @claireculwell

 

My response to @NC_Governor who vetoed the Born Alive Act this morning. Abortion survivors do exist and we shouldn’t have to fight for our lives after we survive an abortion. #bornaliveact #abortionsurvivor #northcarolinalegislature #governorcooper

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Anonymous ID: 7b9fe1 April 26, 2019, 8:03 p.m. No.6329712   🗄️.is 🔗kun

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Tami Fitzgerald @tamifitzgerald

 

Living in a state where the Governor @RoyCooperNC vetoes protections for babies born alive as the result of a botched abortion makes me want to make sure he is sent home to pasture in 2020! How about you NC?#onetermgov

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3:11 PM - Apr 18, 2019

Anonymous ID: 7b9fe1 April 26, 2019, 8:03 p.m. No.6329718   🗄️.is 🔗kun

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As the Washington Free Beacon observed, the response from abortion rights activists and Cooper that infanticide “simply does not exist” also contradicts the comments of Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam (D), who was asked during a radio interview about the abortion bill up for consideration in his state, with his support, that would have allowed the procedure at any point up until birth.

Anonymous ID: 7b9fe1 April 26, 2019, 8:05 p.m. No.6329731   🗄️.is 🔗kun

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In his State of the Union address, President Donald Trump condemned the Democrat Party for its support of late-term abortion and even infanticide.

 

Tami Fitzgerald, North Carolina Values Coalition executive director, responded to Cooper’s veto with the following statement:

 

During Easter holy week when Christians around the world pause to remember the birth, sacrifice and resurrection of Jesus Christ, North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper instead vetoed the life of innocent babies, created in the image of God, and chose to support infanticide standing side-by-side with New York Governor Cuomo and Virginia Governor Ralph Northam and groups like Planned Parenthood and NARAL. Roy Cooper didn’t just veto a bill, he vetoed babies—babies who are innocently born alive as the result of a botched abortion. Our coalition of pro-life advocates will gather our supporters in Raleigh and encourage the General Assembly to override this murderous action.