A bill advanced Wednesday by Louisiana state lawmakers would classify abortion as a homicide, allowing authorities to potentially charge women and girls with murder and criminalize in vitro fertilization, critics said.
The bill, dubbed the Abolition of Abortion in Louisiana Act, passed 7-2 out of a state House subcommittee two days aftersuggesting that the court is poised to overturn Roe v. Wade.
The bill will now move to a full House vote. The legislation would still need support from the Senate and the governor before it could become law.Speaking at a hearing Wednesday, the bill’s sponsor, Danny McCormick, compared the move to flout federal laws protecting abortion to the state’s approval of medical marijuana.
"If more than 15 states can defy the federal government, we can do it to save the lives of innocent babies," he said. “We cannot wait for the Supreme Court to confirm that innocent babies have the right to life."The bill’s text, which says the legislation aims to “ensure the right to life and equal protection of the laws to all unborn children from the moment of fertilization,” it instructs the state to disregard federal abortion rulings, including Roe v.
A medical student, right, and a nurse, rear, monitor women as they rest before and after getting abortions at Hope Medical Group for Women in Shreveport, La., on Oct. 9. Ellie Schilling, a Louisiana lawyer who represents reproductive health care providers, said at the hearing that the bill would amend state law to allow authorities to charge someone who is pregnant with homicide or criminal battery “at any stage of gestation,”
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