Colorado Democrats have voted against a bill that would require medical care to be provided to survivors of failed abortions.
According to Colorado.gov, House Bill 1068 establishes a “physician-patient relationship” between a baby born alive and the doctor who attempted to perform the abortion.
House Bill 1068 would mandate that doctors “exercise the same degree of professional skill, care, and diligence to preserve the life and health of the child as a reasonably diligent and conscientious physician would render to any other child born alive at the same gestational age and requires that the child born alive be immediately transferred to a hospital.”
Failure to comply with the bill would be considered a class 3 felony for ‘unprofessional conduct on a medical license,’ resulting in a $100,00 civil penalty.
The Military Affairs Committee and House State Veterans killed the bill in addition to House Bill 1098, which would have outlawed abortions for fetuses past 22 weeks gestation. Colorado Politics confirmed that Republicans supported both bills while Democrats opposed them.
Shane Sandridge, the Republican Colorado Rep. sponsoring House Bill 1068, noted that the bill was not against abortion, but against murder.
“It’s not an abortion bill. It’s a murder bill,” said a disappointed Sandridge.
