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Contact: Leslie Palma
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Priests for Life National Director Frank Pavone issued the following statement today after the U.S. Senate failed to advance a bill protecting infant lives.
“Once again, Democrats in the U.S. Senate failed to protect babies who survive an abortion. Only seven of them were needed to vote in favor of advancing the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, but not a single one was courageous enough to do so,” Pavone said. “In discussing the bill before the vote, Democrats continued to lie about the bill, calling it an attempt to curtail women’s access to abortion. They know, and the American people know, that is not the case.
“Yet their failure to protect even babies who are outside the womb teaches us a crucial lesson about abortion, namely, that unless we protect the unborn, the born are not safe either. If a government authorizes the killing of the innocent in one limited circumstance, they will start doing so in other circumstances.
“This is a lesson the Democrat Party does not want the public to learn.”