Senate Republicans failed on Wednesday to invoke cloture on a bill legislating care for infants "born alive" during attempted abortions, with the motion largely serving to get Democrats on the record as voting against a bill being framed as anti-infanticide.

Republicans sought cloture on the "Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act," a bill that 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.

Health care practitioners who fail to comply with the law would face fines and up to five years in jail or both. House Republicans

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