Louisiana State Capitol in downtown Baton Rouge|Ken Lund|CC BY-SA 2.0
Lawmakers in Louisiana advanced a bill that would classify abortions as a homicide crime.
If the bill becomes a law, the state would ban abortion and give constitutional rights to every unborn child.
The move comes at the heels of the leaked Supreme Court draft that plans to overturn the 1973 Roe V. Wade decision.
During a committee hearing, Ellie Schilling, a Louisiana lawyer who represents reproductive health care providers said, “What this bill does is to specifically amend the crime of homicide and the crime of criminal battery to enable the state to charge people, including the pregnant person - the pregnant mother - at any stage of gestation.”
