Louisiana lawmakers back bill that criminalizes abortion

In Louisiana, elected officials gave their approval on Wednesday to a bill that would ban abortion, recognize the constitutional rights of unborn children from the moment of fertilization and would turn abortion into homicide.

The law project was approved seven to two by a committee of the state House of Representatives.

It will now have to be voted on by the House of Representatives as a whole. Legislation will then need to be approved by the Senate and the Governor to pass.

The lawmaker who introduced the bill in March, Republican Danny McCormick, says the impending Supreme Court ruling on abortion should not delay state efforts to ban access.

We Can’t Wait For The Supreme Court To Confirm It’s A Crime To Kill Innocent Babieshe said during a hearing on Wednesday.

In fact, the text of the bill specifies that it should be applied without regard to the opinions and judgments of the Supreme Court in Roe v. Wade, and his legal descendants, past and future.

The American Civil Liberties Association of Louisiana said the bill was manifestly unconstitutionalsaying it would allow authorities to bring murder charges against people who have abortions or those who help them.

Its director, Chris Kaiser, believes that the measure would criminalize in vitro fertilization by defining the embryo as a person. He called the bill a barbaric.

Louisiana is one of 13 states that could ban abortion immediately if Roe v. Wade is overruled by the Supreme Court.

Louisiana is not the only state to have announced its colors after the leak of the Supreme Court’s draft.

South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem, Republican, has announced that she will immediately call a special legislative session if the U.S. Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade. She did not specify her expectations, but expressed her desire to save lives and ensure that every unborn child has the right to life in South Dakota.

The abortion pill, the next battlefield for abortion?

South Dakota is one of 19 states to act in recent months to restrict access to another method of abortion, used in more than half of abortions performed in the country: the abortion pill.

Like states like Texas and Ohio, South Dakota has passed a law that requires a doctor to be physically present when the abortion pill is administered to a patient.

However, this decision goes against the new federal regulations.

Last year, the U.S. Medicines Agency lifted a longstanding requirement that forced women to pick up their abortion pills in person. Federal regulations now also allow the delivery of these pills by mail anywhere in the country.

Experts say it’s unclear whether states can override the new regulations, though the general rule is that in the event of a conflict, federal laws take precedence over state laws.

Although it is technically possible to invoke public health reasons to restrict access to the abortion pill, law professor Laure Hermer believes that this type of argument would not carry weight since these drugs are perfectly safe.

However, if the Supreme Court goes ahead and repeals Roe v. Wade, all bets are offshe adds.

Until then, women who reside in South Dakota or another state that restricts access to the abortion pill may have to cross state lines to use the procedure.

The regional organization of Planned Parenthood, which operates abortion clinics in the United States, does not believe it can legally help patients in South Dakota.

We do not believe we have the freedom to send pills from Minnesota to other places in the country where it is illegal to supply abortion drugs.said the organization’s chief medical officer, Sarah Traxler.

Observing what is happening in the country, especially in Louisiana, the professor of law Greer Donley, of the University of Pittsburgh, fears even greater obstacles for women who seek to obtain this procedure.

Many anti-abortion lawmakers might realize that the only way to enforce these laws is to sue the pregnant person themselves.he says.