Madam Speaker, pursuant to House Resolution 421, I call up the bill (H.R. 3504) to amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit a healthcare practitioner from failing to exercise the proper degree of care in the case of a child who survives an abortion or attempted abortion, and ask for its immediate consideration. The Clerk read the title of the bill. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to House Resolution 421, the bill is considered read. The text of the bill is as follows: H.R. 3504 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the ``Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act''. SEC. 2. FINDINGS. Congress finds as follows: (1) If an abortion results in the live birth of an infant, the infant is a legal person for all purposes under the laws of the United States, and entitled to all the protections of such laws. (2) Any infant born alive after an abortion or within a hospital, clinic, or other facility has the same claim to the protection of the law that would arise for any newborn, or for any person who comes to a hospital, clinic, or other facility for screening and treatment or otherwise becomes a patient within its care. SEC. 3. BORN-ALIVE INFANTS PROTECTION. (a) Requirements Pertaining to Born-Alive Abortion Survivors.--Chapter 74 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by inserting after section 1531 the following: ``Sec. 1532.…
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