FRANKFORT, Ky. — A Kentucky Senate panel has approved a bill to require that doctors and other health workers provide life-saving care for an infant born alive after a failed abortion attempt.
The measure sailed through the Senate Veterans, Military Affairs and Public Protection Committee without opposition Thursday.
The bill now heads to the Republican-dominated Senate. Sen. Whitney Westerfield, the bill's lead sponsor, says he isn't aware of any instances in which an infant was born alive in Kentucky from a failed abortion.
But he says the measure is needed to “prevent it ever happening."