Lankford Calls for Protections for Survivors of Botched Abortions, Stands for Life

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WASHINGTON, DC – Senator James Lankford (R-OK), Republican Conference Vice Chair and Chairman of the Senate Values Action Team, hosted a press conference to call attention to the need to protect newborns who survive abortions by requiring they receive care from health care practitioners. Senators Markwayne Mullin (R-OK), Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), and Roger Marshall, MD (R-KS) spoke alongside abortion survivors Melissa Ohden and Josiah Presley.

Lankford led 46 Senators in introducing the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act last week, but the bill was blocked by Senate Democrats yesterday. 

Excerpt:

For all the conversation about, that this is not real. Her name is Melissa. His name is Josiah. And there are many, many, many more that are out there, that have survived. But many more were never given the option to be able to survive. So I say to my Democratic colleagues, which one of these people don’t matter? I think they all do, and I think each person is valuable. 

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