One of the saddest things to come out of the 2022 Midterms so far, was the vote against Legislative Referendum 131 (LR-131) in Montana, that would have required life-saving medical care for infants born alive.
Named the Montana Born-Alive Infant Protection Act, if adopted, would have imposed criminal penalties for healthcare providers who refused to enact life-saving care for newborns and pushed for infants to be viewed as “legal persons.”
The act reads, “providing that infants born alive, including infants born alive after an abortion, are legal persons; requiring health care providers take necessary actions to preserve the life of a born-alive infant; providing a penalty.”
In total, 52.6 percent of voters voted “No” to the proposal and it was rejected by more than 22,500 votes.
While many people debate that a “fetus” that is not “viable” outside of the womb should not be granted legal protections, this measure was very clear on the humanity of the infants they were trying to save.
“’Born alive’ means the complete expulsion or extraction from the mother of a human infants, at any stage of development, who, after expulsion or extraction, breathes, has a beating heart or has definite movement of voluntary muscles.”
Montana Born-Alive Infant Protection Act
Sadly, Montanians did not want to view infants as legal persons, worthy of life-saving care. The act was trying to bring attention to the amount of born-alive infants that have been left to die after a botched abortion and tried to humanize the millions of children that have been killed via the horrific act of abortion.
Montana was also not the only state to vote against life during this election cycle.
In California, Proposition 1, which would allow abortion to birth for any reason, was also passed. Another example of how, despite the overturn of Roe v Wade, the fight for life is still far from over.
