The record
Legislation· Jan 2025
Legislation· Jan 2025S 6 Procedural vote, hasn't passed
Sponsored by James Lankford (R)
Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act
Requires doctors to provide the same care to infants born alive after abortion as to other newborns.
Tradeoff
Imposes criminal penalties—up to five years in prison and fines—on doctors and hospital staff who fail to provide care or report violations. Mothers cannot be prosecuted but can sue for damages.
What's in it
The Senate rejected a to the bill on January 22, 2025, by 52-47, leaving it stalled.
Senate
Introduced
(Jan 15, 2025)
Senate
On on the
Motion to Invoke Cloture: Motion to Proceed to S.6
Cloture on the Motion to Proceed Rejected(Roll #11 · Jan 22, 2025)
52 yeanay 47
- Jim Banks (R-IN)
- John Thune (R-SD)
- Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS)
- James E. Risch (R-ID)
- Cynthia M. Lummis (R-WY)
- Katie Boyd Britt (R-AL)
- Mitch McConnell (R-KY)
- Roger F. Wicker (R-MS)
- Marsha Blackburn (R-TN)
- Mike Crapo (R-ID)
- Deb Fischer (R-NE)
- Chuck Grassley (R-IA)
- John Hoeven (R-ND)
- Roger Marshall (R-KS)
- Thomas Tillis (R-NC)
- Ted Budd (R-NC)
- Tim Scott (R-SC)
- Ron Johnson (R-WI)
- Tim Sheehy (R-MT)
- Tommy Tuberville (R-AL)
- Bill Hagerty (R-TN)
- John R. Curtis (R-UT)
- Todd Young (R-IN)
- Pete Ricketts (R-NE)
- Kevin Cramer (R-ND)
- John Barrasso (R-WY)
- John Kennedy (R-LA)
- John Cornyn (R-TX)
- Bill Cassidy (R-LA)
- Mike Rounds (R-SD)
- Joni Ernst (R-IA)
- Rick Scott (R-FL)
- Steve Daines (R-MT)
- Markwayne Mullin (R-OK)
- Lindsey Graham (R-SC)
- Ted Cruz (R-TX)
- Eric Schmitt (R-MO)
- Mike Lee (R-UT)
- Dan Sullivan (R-AK)
- Jerry Moran (R-KS)
- Tom Cotton (R-AR)
- Josh Hawley (R-MO)
- David McCormick (R-PA)
- John Boozman (R-AR)
- Bernie Moreno (R-OH)
- Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV)
- Ashley Moody (R-FL)
- Rand Paul (R-KY)
- James C. Justice (R-WV)
- Darline Graham (R-SC)
Recently introduced · no floor action yet