Louisiana legislators have revamped a bill that would have made women who end their pregnancies subject to criminal homicide prosecutions. The new measure no longer makes Louisiana women who have abortions subject to murder or other criminal charges.
Edwards, a devout Catholic, declared prosecuting women for abortion “absurd.”
The House had not yet started debating the controversial legislation when the building was temporarily evacuated Thursday after the speaker interrupted proceedings and said an unknown, unclaimed package had been found in the capitol’s Memorial Hall — a gathering area between House and Senate Chambers.
The amendment also stripped language from McCormick’s bill widely regarded as blatantly unconstitutional — a declaration that any federal law, regulation or court ruling that allows abortion is void and that any judge who blocks enforcement of the bill’s provisions could be impeached.“We can’t grant ourselves the power to order a court to rule future acts unconstitutional,” Seabaugh argued.
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