Who will speak for those who have no voice? President Trump’s recent executive order regarding babies born alive answers that question: We will, as fellow Americans. Even as some hospitals question whether babies born “too young” or “too disabled” are worth trying to save, the president’s executive order reminds all of us that they, and we, have both a legal and moral obligation to try.

I can sympathize with the anguish that parents of newborn children feel as their sons and daughters struggle to survive in the first moments after birth. During my second pregnancy, blood work suggested that the daughter I carried would suffer from cystic fibrosis.