Abortion survivor laws?

I don't want this to be a pro-life / pro-choice debate, but rather a discussion of some recent attempts to pass certain laws.
In Virginia, the legislature recently almost passed a bill that would allow late term abortions. In a radio interview, their governor, who is a pediatrician, explained how the procedure would work. To paraphrase, he stated that once the baby HAD BEEN DELIVERED, it would be made comfortable and resuscitated if that was the mother's wish. In other words, if the mother did not want the baby to live, it would be ok to just let it die. Fortunately, in my opinion, that law did not pass by one vote.
FYI, I have not read the wording of this bill, but am basing this on the interview I saw with the governor.
Now, the U.S. senate tried to pass a bill making it illegal to allow a baby who survives an abortion to die without making every effort to save the child. It did not pass filibuster, due to democrats voting against it.
Regardless of what you think of this, was the U.S. senate bill necessary? Regardless of circumstances, wouldn't a child who has already been born be considered a person, regardless of the circumstances of its birth? Wouldn't killing or allowing that child to die due to neglect be murder?
Second, what were the democrats thinking? Trump and company will use this to bludgeon the 2020 presidential nominee as a baby killer if that candidate was against the senate bill. From what I know, the senators who were opposed to it were screaming that it would roll back a woman's right to choose. If they opposed it, I think they would have been wiser to claim it was unnecessary as it's already illegal to kill a human being.
Gun control laws make about as much sense as taking ex-lax to cure a cough.
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― Douglas Adams
Adam J. McCleod
Let me repeat myself.
Is a law banning infanticide of babies that have survived an attempt to abort them necessary? Wouldn't such a baby, by law, having been born, have the same rights as any other baby?
Have the democrats who oppose such a law made a huge political blunder that allows Trump and company to brand them as baby killers?
Gun control laws make about as much sense as taking ex-lax to cure a cough.
They do not think of themselves as killers...They consider themselves as women's rights champions.
You are thinking too logically to argue this with a Democrat.
Adam J. McCleod
― Douglas Adams
― Douglas Adams
There always seemed to me to be an extreme lack of logical thought on both sides of the debate:
Democrats: On the one hand perfectly willing to uphold the right to terminate an unplanned/unwanted pregnancy that might very likely result in a child raised in difficult conditions that would lead them to poverty and crime. On the other hand, they'll fight tooth and nail against the right to defend yourself by shooting one of these feral individuals, and can't stomach the thought of executing one that colors too far outside the lines.
Republicans: Generally willing to let you defend yourself against criminals and execute the really bad ones, but unwilling to allow termination of pregnancies that might very well grow up and turn to crime or require their taxes to support them through welfare and other social programs. When I consider that those living the lifestyle that leads to abortion likely vote Democrat, and that the unwanted, turned-to-crime or on-the-dole offspring of those people also likely vote Democrat, I have to wonder why the Republicans would so actively oppose anything that allows Democrats to voluntarily reduce their own numbers.
Puzzles the hell out of me, or am I just not applying enough wild emotion to the thought process?
"Nothing is safe from stupid." - Zee
Adam J. McCleod
Google Margaret Sanger sometime- - - - -the founder of Planned Parenthood, and you'll understand why she was so bent on eliminating as many unborns as possible. Hint- - - - - -the ones she wanted to abort weren't Caucasian! She also believed in "Eugenics".
Jerry