For years, leaders in the pro-life movement, like Eagle Forum, actively sought passage of the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act. Its need stems from a 2002 law, the Born-Alive Infants Protection Act, which states that “every infant member of the species homo sapiens who is born alive at any state of development” is a “person” for all purposes under the law. However, this law failed to provide clarity on the response babies born alive from botched abortions receive.