Louisiana lawmakers to consider bill that would make abortion a crime

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BATON ROUGE, La. (BRPROUD) – Lawmakers in Louisiana are gathering on Wednesday, May 4 to consider a bill that would criminalize abortion.

HB813 proposes, among other things, to change current laws so that the word “person” includes a human being from the moment of fertilization and that the term, “unborn child” becomes defined as an individual human being from fertilization until birth.

Capitol is jammed packed today. A lot of the folks down in this hallway are talking about Danny McCormick’s bill that would increase prosecution of abortion #lalege #lagov pic.twitter.com/6wnNvNpQSh

— Shannon Heckt (@ShannonHeckt) May 4, 2022

He plans to bring amendment that would allow the AG to go over a DA who chooses not to prosecute someone on this issue. The DAA President tells me that’s unconstitutional without a constitutional amendment pic.twitter.com/cAp7pW1Llk

— Shannon Heckt (@ShannonHeckt) May 4, 2022

The House Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice convened Wednesday at 9:30 a.m. to address multiple bills.

HB813 is fourth on the agenda, and as of 11:45 a.m. has yet to be discussed.

Watch a live stream of the committee meeting in the video player above.