"Governors Tim Walz and Gretchen Witmer, Minnesota and Michigan removed reporting requirements for these babies. In fact, under Governor Tim Walz, Minnesota repealed the requirement for a physician to attempt to "preserve the life and health of the born alive infant" following an abortion.
Importantly, even with only 10 states having ever required reporting, there are 277 known cases of infants born alive following an abortion."
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""It’s hard to get accurate statistics because it’s illegal. So people won’t be happy to report things that are illegal," said
Mary Ziegler, an attorney and professor at Florida State University College of Law. Ziegler is an attorney and author of two books on abortion who spoke to PolitiFact in a telephone interview.
The types of deaths targeted by the NC bill occur "to the point of almost never," she said. "At the end of the day, we don’t know. It would be wrong to say 100 percent it doesn’t happen. We don’t know. But for a variety of reasons, it’s almost impossible" to measure.
The lack of data is part of the reason why the NC bill includes a requirement that medical professionals start reporting such cases.
North Carolina tracks
infant deaths but doesn’t know how many infants died after being born alive during a failed abortion, said SarahLewis Peel, spokeswoman for the NC Department of Health and Human Services."
Abortion opponents across the country are pushing for new laws governing medical professionals who perform the procedure
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I think it would be quite logical to say that if we can kill a baby just before it comes out of the womb, we can let it die after it comes out of the womb.
States that allow for late-term abortions with no state-imposed thresholds are Alaska, Colorado, District of Columbia, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oregon, and Vermont.
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