A proposed law to charge women who get abortions with homicide was rejected by the Oklahoma State Senate Judiciary Committee.
Senate Bill 456, the “Abolition of Abortion Act,” authored by Republican state Sen. Dusty Deevers, failed on a six-to-two vote.
Oklahoma law considers unborn children as people from conception.
The law currently states that “a legal abortion to which the pregnant woman consented” is not legally a homicide. It also states that “under no circumstances shall the mother of the unborn child be prosecuted” unless she commits a crime that causes the death.
Deevers’ bill would have repealed the abortion exclusion and the section prohibiting the mother’s prosecution. He said the law was based on the personhood of the unborn….