Republican Reps. Keith Self of Texas and Andy Biggs of Arizona introduced legislation Friday to strengthen the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003.

The Ensuring Justice for Victims of Partial-Birth Abortion Act would ensure compliance with the ban on partial birth abortions by forcing the attorney general to investigate any violations of the law and would require the Department of Justice (DOJ) to compile an annual report of such violations. The bill was prompted after several aborted babies, known as the “DC Five,” were discovered discarded outside of a Washington, D.C. abortion clinic, at least one of which is believed to have been killed as part of a partial birth abortion.

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“The DC-Five were innocent babies weeks from birth before their lives were brutally and barbarically snuffed out,” Self said in a statement announcing the bill. “DC authorities can no longer turn a blind eye to the law. I am hopeful that between President Trump’s pro-life agenda and this bill that strengthens enforcement of the PBABA, the rule of law will be enforced as it pertains to the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act.”

Partial birth abortions are defined as “an abortion in which a physician deliberately and intentionally vaginally delivers a living, unborn child’s body until either the entire baby’s head is outside the body of the mother, or any part of the baby’s trunk past the navel is outside the body of the mother and only the head remains inside the womb, for the purpose of performing an overt act (usually the puncturing of the back of the child’s skull and removing the baby’s brains) that the person knows will kill the partially delivered infant, performs this act, and then completes delivery of the dead infant,” according to the original legislation.

The legislation is intended to address the failures of former President Joe Biden’s DOJ in properly investigating violations of the abortion law.

“In 2003, Congress enacted the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act to end the gruesome and inhumane practice of partial-birth abortion,” Marilyn Musgrave, vice president of Government Affairs for Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, said in a statement. “Yet Biden’s Department of Justice failed to investigate a suspected case of partial birth abortion right in the nation’s capital. The Ensuring Justice for Victims of Partial-Birth Abortion Act aims to fix this by demanding enforcement and investigation so that babies harmed by this brutal procedure get the justice they deserve. Thank you, Rep. Self, for strengthening enforcement of this important law to protect our most vulnerable.”

Biden was criticized for his apparent weaponization of the government against pro-lifers,  frequently using the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act to prosecute activists for peacefully protesting outside of abortion clinics. Within days of taking office, President Donald Trump pardoned several of the pro-life activists targeted under the Biden administration.

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