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"Born-Alive" Measure Thwarted in New Hampshire.
Pro-abortionists in New Hampshire have for the moment thwarted what ought to have been a non-controversial piece of legislation to recognize that children who are born alive are legal persons.
On March 29, the New Hampshire House of Representatives adopted a watered-down version of sponsor Rep. Phyllis Woods's original HB 390 by a vote of 188-173.
Rep. Woods said she was "absolutely astounded that this bill has caused so much controversy," the Manchester Union Leader reported. "Why should there be any hesitation about saying a newborn baby is a person?"
A dual strategy successfully stymied the Woods bill. The definition of "born alive" - - similar to the language of 30 other states - - was mangled beyond recognition.
"It now uses very dehumanizing language," said Mary Spaulding Balch, NRLC director of state legislation. "The substitute talks about a live birth being `the complete expulsion or extraction from its mother of a product of human conception' to hide the undeniable fact that we are talking about babies who are born-alive, however small, and however good or bad their chances for survival."
Rep. Woods's bill would have changed the law so that every place where the legal term "person" is found, it would apply to born alive infants. But beyond employing language that trivializes the unborn, the amended bill does not recognize these "products of conception" as legal persons.
Making it worse is that this vague, dehumanizing definition was dispatched to a kind of legislative limbo. It was not applied to anything - - not to laws, rules, or regulations.
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