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An associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology testifying before a Senate hearing Tuesday disagreed with a GOP senator’s contention that “a child born alive should get all available medical care for survival.”
Instead, Dr. Diana Greene Foster of the University of California San Francisco said in response to questioning by Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) that “doctors and nurses and women themselves know best whether care would lead to survival.”
Foster, a director of research for the Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health project at UCSF, was appearing at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing entitled “Late-Term Abortion: Protecting Babies Born Alive and Capable of Feeling Pain.”