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RICHMOND, Virginia (LifeSiteNews) — Virginia Republican Delegate Nick Freitas recently gave a powerful speech criticizing Planned Parenthood’s opposition to his born alive bill.
Freitas’ legislation would require medical professionals to take all reasonable steps to save the life of an aborted infant born alive. He said the bill was personal to him because people had told his mom to abort him.
“It was a bill that said that if the child survives it, they’re entitled to basic reasonable care to try to protect their life,” Freitas said on the floor of the House of Delegates on Tuesday. But Planned Parenthood opposed the bill in the Virginia senate rules committee. A majority of senators voted to effectively kill the bill by tabling it “indefinitely.”
A witness, Robin Sertell, shared how she survived three saline abortion attempts.
“Right after she shared this, Planned Parenthood got up and said that this bill was a solution in search of a problem. They said my bill was full of hateful rhetoric, [and] that [it] was designed to stigmatize people,” he said.
He said Planned Parenthood’s comments
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