Montana Governor Signs Pro-Life Bills Protecting Babies from Late-Term Abortion, Infanticide

Jean Mondoro : May 9, 2023
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The new bills also include conscience protections for doctors and a ban on taxpayer funding for elective abortion.

(Helena, MT) — [LifeSiteNews.com] Last week, Republican Gov. Greg Gianforte of Montana signed five pro-life bills, including provisions to restrict abortion funding and protect born-alive infants and the conscience rights of doctors who object to killing the unborn. (Image: Unsplash-Hu Chen)

Protecting born-alive abortion victims, pro-life doctors

The Infant Safety and Care Act, HB 625, requires medical professionals to take care of newborn babies who survive abortions with the same standards as those who are not victims of abortion. Violators of the law would be guilty of a felony and could face a suspended license, a civil malpractice lawsuit, thousands of dollars in fines, and up to 5 years in prison.

HB 303 provides protections for individual and organizational medical professionals who are morally opposed to certain so-called medical practices, including abortion. This bill would prevent medical professionals from being forced to participate in any medical service that goes against their conscience. Specifically, it states that "a person may not be scheduled, assigned, or requested to directly or indirectly perform [sic], facilitate, refer for, or participate in an abortion unless the person first affirmatively consents in writing to perform, facilitate, refer for, or participate in the abortion." Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

Another piece of legislation, HB 575, bans abortion after 24 weeks, clarifying the state's existing abortion law, which prohibits elective abortion once the baby can feel pain and has reached viability. Cases in which abortion is allegedly deemed "necessary" to save the mother's life are an exception to the ban. Experts attest that abortion is not medically necessary under any circumstances, however...

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