July 16, 2026
On Monday, Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe signed the “Born Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act,” a law that makes it a crime for doctors to deny life-saving care to babies born alive after attempted abortions.
Under the new law, a doctor found guilty of denying that care can be charged with first-degree murder.
The law also reinforces that it is a crime to attempt to kill a child born alive after an abortion attempt.
This law may seem unnecessary. After all, who would deny life-saving care to a living human baby and instead leave them to die on an operating table?
Unfortunately, there are people who do just that.
After taking office in Minnesota, for example, Governor – and former vice presidential candidate – Tim Walz changed state law to no longer require doctors to provide lifesaving treatment to aborted babies born alive.
(Notably, Walz also supports pardoning a foreign-national-turned-convicted-rapist so that he won’t have to be deported, saying that removing a sex offender from US streets won’t “make us any safer.”)
In 2021, when state law required doctors to perform such lifesaving treatment, the state’s department of health still reported that at least five babies who were born alive after attempted abortions died after being denied treatment illegally.
Instead of taking action to protect such babies, though, Walz decided to make it legal to leave babies to die. Worse, he changed the law so that their deaths would no longer even have to be reported. Now, no one knows how many abortion surviving-babies are abandoned and left to die anyway.
Missouri’s law represents an amazing step to protect life and ensure that no living babies are left for dead. But it shouldn’t be necessary – and the fact that it is, and that the Left has labeled it an “anti-abortion” law says far too much about the state of abortion activists in America.