ABSTRACT
It was a long-established principle of law that infants born alive were considered persons and fully entitled to the protections of the law. But, as the twentieth century drew to a close, Representative Charles T. Canady, Chairman of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitu - tion, was concerned. He saw “changes in the legal and cultural landscape” and what was increasingly referred to as an emerging “culture of death.”1 He aimed to clarify through proposed legislation, the Born-Alive Protection Act of 2000.
