The Born-Alive Infants Protection Act already exists, and has since 2002. Homicide laws in EVERY STATE make it illegal to kill a baby, regardless of whether it was just born or is a few months old.

“The vast majority of abortions in the US – more than 90 percent – occur in the first trimester, or before 13 weeks. About 1 percent take place after 21 weeks, and far less than 1 percent occur in the third trimester.” [Source]

This law would be redundant.

“The Born-Alive Infants Protection Act amended the federal definition of a person so that “any federal prohibition on any form of violence, including homicide, would be extended to an infant born alive after abortion,” said Mary Ziegler, a University of California, Davis law professor and abortion historian.

David Cohen, a Drexel University law professor who specialises in the intersection of constitutional law and gender, said once a person is born, “you have all the protections of every criminal law, every civil law, including laws against murder, including laws against assault, including medical malpractice laws, etc.”

Full contextual analysis of Section 3.5: Department of Health and Human Services here.