SB16 requires health care providers to exercise professional skill, care, and diligence to preserve the life and health of children born alive following abortion or attempted abortion. It makes intentionally causing the death of such a child a felony of first-degree intentional homicide, with a penalty of life imprisonment.
The Senate passed SB16 on September 28, 2021, by a vote of 19 to 12 (Vote 121). We have assigned pluses to the ayes because states should act to ban abortion and guarantee the right to life for all persons. The right to life is the most fundamental, God-given, and unalienable right asserted in the Declaration of Independence and protected by the 5th and 14th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution.
