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‘Born alive’ advances in House |
Rep. Greg Delleney of Chester, the General Assembly’s most outspoken abortion foe, gained initial approval Thursday to require doctors to save any fetus that survives an abortion.The bill, which unanimously passed a House subcommittee Delleney chairs, is aimed at rewriting state law to recognize the “personhood” of the unborn.If the bill becomes law, a person would be redefined as anyone at any stage of development who is breathing, has a heartbeat, a pulsation of the umbilical cord or definite movement of voluntary muscles after birth, whether that be by labor, Cesarean section or abortion.Delleney says it has wider implications than just for abortion clinics.“This might be a child born at home, in a hospital, in the back of a taxi or an abortion clinic,” he said. “It gives them the same rights that any other breathing person has.”
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