GOP lawmakers in 10 states introduce bills to treat abortion as homicide [View all]
Source: The Hill
03/28/25 6:00 AM ET
A growing number of Republican state lawmakers are introducing legislation that would treat abortion as murder in a push to give legal rights to fetuses.
Since the beginning of this year, Republican lawmakers have introduced bills in at least 10 states, including Georgia, Kentucky, Missouri, South Carolina, Texas, Oklahoma, Indiana, Iowa, Idaho and North Dakota, that aim to charge pregnant women with homicide if they seek out or receive an abortion.
While several of these bills have already failed to pass and the others are likely to meet the same fate, the influx of legislation shows more Republicans seeking to take a new step in restricting abortion rights: legally recognizing fetal personhood. “That is, of course, something that the movement had always wanted, but it hadn’t really been achievable in the same way that it is now with Roe v. Wade gone,” said Mary Ziegler, law professor at the University of California, Davis.
In addition to abortion, some of the legislation calls for amending state law to classify the destruction of zygotes, embryos or fetuses as homicide. All of the states where they have been introduced, with the exception of North Dakota, allow the death penalty for homicide cases.
Read more: https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5217297-republican-state-lawmakers-abortion-homicide-bills/
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