Louisiana House removes murder charge from abortion bill

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

61% : Anti-abortion legislation usually passes easily in Louisiana's Legislature but the emphatic opposition from some anti-abortion stalwarts could bolster attempts to derail the measure or heavily amend it.
47% : Gov. John Bel Edwards, an anti-abortion Democrat, said he would veto it.
42% : McCormick's bill had drawn intense scrutiny in light of last week's leak of a draft of a opinion indicating the high court is preparing to overturn decisions upholding a constitutional right to abortion.
41% : But his amendment would completely revamp McCormick's bill, eliminating the criminal penalties for women, allowing abortion to save the life of a pregnant woman and okaying the use of contraceptives.
38% : It would have made women who end their pregnancies subject to criminal homicide prosecutions.
38% : McCormick introduced his bill in March in an attempt to end abortion regardless of what any court does.
35% : Louisiana already has laws on the books criminalizing abortion, including a "trigger law" ensuring that it will be a crime if the Supreme Court reverses the Roe vs. Wade, the 1973 ruling establishing abortion rights.
34% : The controversial bill would have ventured farther against abortion than lawmakers' efforts in any other state.
34% : Abortion is murder," McCormick, a Republican from Oil City, proclaimed as he opened debate.
34% : He noted that a majority of Louisiana lawmakers in the heavily Republican Legislature say they are anti-abortion, and briefly chided those abortion opponents who also oppose his bill.
22% : Edwards, a devout Catholic, declared prosecuting women for abortion "absurd."
13% : In addition to rewriting homicide statutes to include abortion, it declared that any , regulation or court ruling that allows abortion is void and that any judge who blocks enforcement of the bill's provisions could be impeached.

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