Laws that would make abortion homicide in nine US states

Lawmakers in at least nine US states—Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and Texas—have introduced bills this year that seek to classify abortion as homicide. Under proposed legislation, anyone seeking an abortion could be subject to murder or manslaughter charges or wrongful death suits. The bills would amend state laws to classify destruction of a zygote, embryo, or fetus from the moment of fertilisation as homicide. Eight of these states—all but North Dakota—have the death penalty for homicide.