A proposed bill in Louisiana that would classify abortion as murder is being opposed by Republican lawmakers who are anti-abortion.
The Supreme Court is expected to make a decision on abortion on May 3.
The Louisiana House will debate a bill on Thursday that grants the same rights to embryos and fetuses as humans after they are born.
The bill could be used to punish people for using common birth control methods, as not all artificially fertilized eggs result in a pregnancy, if they were granted personhood rights.
Two Republican lawmakers plan to propose an amendment that would gut the legislation, which they say is too far.
The Senate has already approved the text of a different abortion ban, and an amendment would replace the bill's language with it.
The person who gets an abortion should not be punished, even though the bill makes it a crime to perform an abortion except for medical emergencies.
Louisiana Right to Life came out against the legislation on Friday, saying it doesn't support the bill going after those who get abortions.
If the bill isn't amended and still passes the legislature, the governor will veto it. If the Supreme Court overturns Wade, Louisiana will have a law on the books that will immediately ban abortion.
Louisiana Right to Life said that the bill was self-defeating and that it was not what it meant to be pro-life.
The sponsor of the legislation said he was looking forward to the debate on Thursday.
According to a draft opinion leaked last week, the Supreme Court may overturn the 1973 ruling and allow states to ban abortion. Louisiana is one of more than a dozen states that would classify an abortion as a felony if the law were to be changed. The bill moving forward in the committee last week was seen by abortion rights advocates as a sign of a future ban on abortion, which they believe may be targeted next once abortion can be banned. The extreme nature of the bill is due to the fact that it directs any judge who blocks the law in court to be impeached.
House Republicans plan to remove language that punishes pregnant people.
The bill was sponsored by an ally of the anti-abortion forces. Here is why. The New Orleans Advocate.
Louisiana Lawmakers are pushing a bill that would make abortion homicides.
Louisiana Governor Slams Bill Classifying Abortion as Murder.
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