On Tuesday, Wisconsin Assembly representatives reintroduced the Born Alive Bill. The bill requires health care providers to give the same care to a child born through a failed abortion that they would give to a child born naturally or by c-section. Although under current law these children have legal rights, this bill strengthens their protection by ensuring that doctors and healthcare staff who intentionally kill these children, or refrain from giving life-saving care, are charged with a felony equal to first-degree intentional homicide.

Every born-alive child has the right to life-saving care, even in the case of a botched abortion. This is the fourth time such a bill has been introduced in our state. Twice the bill has passed in the state legislature, and twice Governor Evers has vetoed the bill. We can pray and hope that in this year he has deemed the "Year of the Kid," the Governor will truly do right by these newborn kids.