Current Events > Trump signs 'born alive' executive order aimed at protecting abortion survivors

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https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-born-alive-executive-order-abortion

President Trump signed an executive order Friday ordering the Health and Human Services Department to ensure that federally funded facilities provide life-saving medical care for infants who survive abortions.

Trump announced the measure during an address to the National Catholic Prayer breakfast earlier this week, but was unclear on details. In the released order, the White House specifies that it will enforce the medical care requirement and prioritize funding for programs that either research improvements to life-saving care or train medical personnel to provide that type of treatment.

"Every infant born alive, no matter the circumstances of his or her birth, has the same dignity and the same rights as every other individual and is entitled to the same protections under federal law," the order reads.

The measure was celebrated by pro-life activists, who have coalesced around Trump in the lead-up to November.

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You can't be born dead tho...

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SomeLikeItHoth posted...

Every infant born alive, no matter the circumstances of his or her birth, has the same dignity and the same rights as every other individual and is entitled to the same protections under federal law

Right up until you leave the hospital the first time.

The rest of your life is up to you, you lazy fucking baby.

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Is this something an executive order can actually do?

Questionmarktarius posted...

Is this something an executive order can actually do?

I don't know the answer to this question, but his precedent with EOs leads me to believe that it is not.

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Turbam posted...

You can't be born dead tho...

Yeah you can

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Have doctors been killing abortion survivors or something?

Turbam posted...

You can't be born dead tho...

But can you turn up missing?

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hockeybub89 posted...

Have doctors been killing abortion survivors or something?

Probably, or maybe not. Fundies freak out at even imaging it happens.

Oh boy, I bet this will never result in a grieving mother giving birth to a baby with a terminal illness/severe incompatibility with life and then being forced to watch them be kept alive in absolute, excruciating agony. And it'll definitely never result in non-viable pregnancies, that should be privately and tactfully terminated, being turned into circus shows where the mother is either forced to carry it to term or injured in an early birth.

Anyone know how or where to invest heavily in pennyroyal futures?

_Rinku_ posted...

Oh boy, I bet this will never result in a grieving mother giving birth to a baby with a terminal illness/severe incompatibility with life and then being forced to watch them be kept alive in absolute, excruciating agony. And it'll definitely never result in non-viable pregnancies, that should be privately and tactfully terminated, being turned into circus shows where the mother is either forced to carry it to term or injured in an early birth.

But the evil Democrats want post-birth abortion!

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This is the typical toothless EO for pandering purposes.

It makes zero sense.

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pegusus123456 posted...

I don't know the answer to this question, but his precedent with EOs leads me to believe that it is not.

At the bare minimum the EO would have to give a medical definition instead of the vague "survive."

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Questionmarktarius posted...

Is this something an executive order can actually do?

No, not really. Trump just likes writing his name on paper. Makes him feel important.

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