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When is a newborn baby not entitled to the same love, rights and health care as any other baby? When she was supposed to be aborted, but lived.

Americans rightly pride themselves on the principle of equal justice. Yet there is a group of highly vulnerable citizens falling through the cracks today: the survivors of abortions. An abortion is deemed successful when it ends the life of the baby. When the abortion fails and the baby is born alive, it is an extremely dangerous moment for that child.

U.S. Representative Ann Wagner (R-MO) and Senators James Lankford (R-OK) and Jim Banks (R-IN) have re-introduced a bill in Congress, the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, to right this wrong. We are so heartened that the new Senate Majority Leader John Thune is eager to hold a vote on this legislation. In his words: “This straightforward bill simply states that a baby born alive after an attempted abortion is entitled to the same protection and medical care that any other newborn baby is entitled to. This vote will ask Democrats to answer whether a living baby born after an attempted abortion should be provided with medical care or be left to die. It shouldn’t be a hard question.”

He’s exactly right. Yet under previous Congresses, Democrats in power blocked this bill, refusing more than 80 requests to hold a vote. As a U.S. senator, Kamala Harris voted against it twice. They deny that survivors exist, yet still act as if this bill threatens so-called “reproductive rights.”…