(National Review)
Fact-checking a fact check
Denise Grady claims to be providing facts about the Born-Alive Survivors Protection Act to correct President Trump.
Let’s take a look at some of the claims in the fact check.
ONE
Grady writes,
The bill would require doctors to use all means available to save the life of a child born alive after an attempted abortion. They must, it says, “exercise the same degree of professional skill, care, and diligence to preserve the life and health of the child” as they would for “any other child born alive at the same gestational age.”
The first sentence is false, because the second sentence is accurate. No law requires that all means available be used to save the life of infants generally (or of other people, for that matter), and this legislation would not create such an obligation for any infant.
TWO
“Opponents said that the bill was aimed at discouraging doctors from performing legal abortions and that it was unnecessary because a similar law already exists, the Born-Alive Infants Protection Act of 2002.” Read more