ATransportation defenders closely follow what they call an increasing and disturbing direction: Located laws have submitted bills that allow authorities to accuse people who get abortions with killing.
These draft laws were presented in at least 10 states for the 2025 legislative session: Georgiaand Idahoand Indianaand yeahand Kentuckyand Missouriand Northern Dakotaand Oklahomaand South CarolinaAnd TexasAccording to the reproductive rights center, which follows these proposals. Most of these countries have already banned abortion either in almost all circumstances or after six weeks of pregnancy. ((Missouri and Northern Dakota They are the only exceptions. Both had previously banned the semi -existing abortion that has been vetoed since then.)
Bills refer to the fetus or fetus as a “child who is not born” or “the newborn”. They claim that the fetus or fetus can be a victim of murder, which opens the door for the authorities for a charge and trial of people looking for abortion. Some bills also suggest removing sentences from state laws that protect pregnant persons looking for miscarriages from judicial prosecution. The bills include limited exceptions, like In a situation that results in “unintended death for a child before the newborn” after “procedures to save life to save the mother’s life when she is accompanied by reasonable steps, if any, to save the life of her newborn child.”
Lizi Hinkley, the first legislative adviser to the state at the Reproductive Rights Center, says she believes that there is an increase in the number of these bills that were presented this year, which is “very worrying”. Hinkeli notes that many of the states that think about these bills, such as South Carolina, Allow the death penalty.
“It is very correct from the anti -abortion playing book to provide bills trying to control them, try to persecute them and punish pregnant people,” she says.
Three of these bills – in Indianaand Northern DakotaAnd Oklahoma– It has since failed to progress. Mary Ziegler – a professor at the University of California, Davis College of Law with experience in abortion – is the possibility of passing the remaining bills “relatively low”. These types of suggestions are generally unpopular. Zaghler says that even conservatives and anti -abortion activists are divided around whether they will punish people looking for abortion.
“After saying this, I think [these bills are] “It is more likely to go more than it was in previous years, and the fact that they continue to return is important,” says Ziegler. It adds that more of these bills have been submitted since the US Supreme Court ruling 2022 in 2022 Dobbs V. Jackson Women’s Organizationand Which ended the constitutional right to abortion.
Usually, the laws of controlling abortion are punishable by medical service providers that provide abortion care. On March 17, the Texas Prosecutor announced that the state was midwife Arrest On the charge of providing abortion illegally – the first time that Texas officials have brought these types of charges forward since Dobbs to rule. Separately, a New York -based doctor Confrontation A civil lawsuit in Texas and the criminal charges of Louisiana claimed that it was described, through distance medication, the abortion pills of patients in those states.
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Modern bills also include a personal letter of the fetus – legal doctrine At the forefront of fighting on reproductive rights This aims to give the fetus and the fetus the legal rights to people. On his first day in office, President Donald Trump signed Executive order It announced that the US government will only get to know “two sexes, male and female.” Advocates of abortion rights The alarm appearedSaying that It contains the language of the fetus’s personality Because he claims that sex is appointed “in pregnancy”.
Hinkley says that the search has already been found that pregnancy criminalization has risen since Dobbs resolution. The fairness of pregnancy, a non -profit organization committed to protecting the rights of pregnant women, issued a report in September Find At least 210 pregnant women faced criminal charges of “behavior associated” with pregnancy in the following year Dobbs Judgment – the highest recorded number in one year. Hinkley says this report “Propting What We see now.”
“It doesn’t matter if [the bills] This year passes; “They did not return to the next year. There was no point that was not long ago when it seems absurd to have a complete abortion ban without exceptions from rape and the preservation of incest, or a complete abortion ban, a period, without exceptions to save the health of the pregnant person, and this is the reality in which pregnant people live all over the country now. So, whether this year or next year or a few years on the road, this is a very shocking indication of what is a very shocking indication of what is the game. The final for the anti -abortion and activists against the abortion.
