Aside from the fact that a “baby” outside the womb is the same being as the “fetus” that resides inside the womb (and therefore, abortion does indeed execute that individual before birth), pro-abortion lawmakers oppose legislation requiring medical treatment for children who accidentally survive the abortions intended to end their lives. They insist that the federal Born-Alive Infants Protection Act already federally protects these children, but this law has no “teeth” — no actual penalties or enforcement — and these same lawmakers have resisted all attempts to pass another law that would penalize to leaving a child to die.

After the U.S. Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision returned the abortion issue to the people and their elected representatives in June 2022, 14 states now have active near-total abortion bans that have reduced elective abortions in those states down to zero. While reports indicate that many women from these states are still getting elective abortions through out-of-state travel or telemedicine, data from January to June 2023 indicate birth rates have increased in states banning abortion at all stages of pregnancy to the rate of 2.3 percent relative to states where abortion is unrestricted. This rate translates to these bans saving about 32,000 babies in those six months alone.