Oppose Missouri's Murder Charges for OB/GYN Providers

Missouri already ranks among the worst states for maternal mortality and maternity care deserts.

A letter to your state legislators. Facts checked July 13, 2026.

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Subject This new law will drive our doctors out of Missouri

Families in Missouri are already struggling to find OB/GYNs. Rural hospitals have closed their labor and delivery units. And now Governor Kehoe has signed a law that could put a doctor in front of a death penalty charge for decisions made in the most heartbreaking moments of their career — when a baby is born with a fatal condition and there is no good outcome, only hard choices made with grieving parents.

This isn't about protecting babies. Doctors already have legal and ethical obligations to provide care. What this law does is hang a murder charge over every provider who manages a complicated delivery, a fetal anomaly diagnosis, or a birth where survival was never possible. The result is predictable: doctors will leave Missouri, hospitals will shut down more maternity wards, and families will drive hours to deliver a baby or lose a pregnancy without any qualified care nearby. We will pay the price in empty delivery rooms and mothers who didn't make it because help was too far away.

I'm asking you to publicly oppose the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act and speak out against its death penalty provision before our state loses the last OB/GYNs willing to practice here.

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Hi, my name is [NAME] and I'm a constituent from [CITY]. I'm calling about the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act that Governor Kehoe just signed.
This law lets the state charge a doctor with first-degree murder — which carries the death penalty — for decisions made during a complicated delivery. That's going to push the OB/GYNs we have left right out of Missouri.
We already have a maternity care crisis here. Rural families are driving hours to deliver. This law makes that so much worse by making Missouri the most dangerous state in the country to practice obstetrics.
I'm asking Representative [NAME] to publicly oppose this law and speak out against the death penalty provision. This is a family safety issue, and I vote.

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