House Republicans pass ‘born-alive’ abortion bill

House Republicans on Thursday passed their version of a “born-alive” abortion bill one day after Democrats blocked the Senate version from advancing. 

The bill requires health care practitioners to provide the “same degree of professional skill, care, and diligence” for a child born alive during an attempted abortion as they would during normal childbirth. 

Republicans have framed the bill as not being anti-abortion but anti-infanticide. Democrats have criticized the legislation...