Bill Requires Care for Infants Surviving Abortion

The Kentucky Senate has approved a bill to require doctors and other health workers to provide life-sustaining care for an infant born alive after a failed abortion attempt.

The measure sailed through the Senate on a 32-0 vote Monday.

It heads to the House next.

It's the latest in a series of abortion-related bills to surface in the Republican-dominated legislature in recent years.

The bill's lead sponsor recently said he wasn't aware of any instances in which an infant was born alive in Kentucky from a failed abortion.

He added that the bill is needed to “prevent it ever happening."