Project 2025 Tracker / What’s done, what’s next

14. Department of Health and Human Services · Notable · Needs Congress

Pass the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act

Attempted

474 14. Department of Health and Human Services · abridged

“In addition, Congress should pass the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act to require that proper medical care be given to infants who survive an abortion and to establish criminal consequences for practitioners who fail to provide such care.”

What has happened

  1. Attempted

    The House passed H.R. 21, the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, on 2025-01-23 by 217 to 204 with 1 voting present (Roll no. 27). Passage by one chamber is `attempted` under playbook 3b. The bill was received in the Senate and referred to the Judiciary Committee on 2025-01-24 and has had no further action; the companion, S. 6, failed to clear cloture on the motion to proceed on 2025-01-22 by 52 to 47 (Record Vote 11). A refusal is not an attempt, so the Senate votes are recorded here rather than as their own events.

Research log

What was searched, and what didn’t count as evidence

Research notes

  • Bill actions from the congress.gov API, api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/21/actions (congress.gov’s own pages refused to open for us). The engrossed-in-House text at govinfo is the readable Primary record that the House passed it.
  • S. 6’s latest action, from congress.gov: “Cloture on the motion to proceed to the measure not invoked in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 52 - 47. Record Vote Number: 11. (CR S294-295)”, 2025-01-22.
  • The House Clerk’s roll-call page, clerk.house.gov/Votes/202527, opens, but its roll-call detail is drawn in by the browser and is not in the page itself, so it could not be used as Evidence.
Action
other
Object
Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act
ID
1310