This bill, known as the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, sponsored by Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE, ACUF Lifetime 94%), would ensure children who are born alive following a failed abortion receive appropriate medical care. Specifically, the bill would establish criminal penalties for health practitioners who fail to admit the child to a hospital immediately after a failed abortion or fail to exercise the same degree of care for a survivor as they would for any other child who is born alive. ACU believes abortion is a human tragedy, supports restrictions to end the practice and supported this bill. Democrats used the filibuster defeat this bill as the Senate failed to invoke cloture (end debate) on February 25, 2020 by a vote of 56-41. (A three-fifths majority vote, or 60 votes, were required to advance the bill and a “yes” vote supported the ACU position.)