Republican lawmakers in at least 10 states — Georgia, Kentucky, Missouri, South Carolina, Texas, Oklahoma, Indiana, Iowa, Idaho, and North Dakota — have introduced bills in 2024 that would allow pregnant women to be charged with homicide for receiving an abortion. Many of the bills also seek to establish legal personhood for fetuses and criminalize the destruction of zygotes, embryos, or fetuses.
All 10 states currently restrict abortion following the overturning of Roe v. Wade, and nine of the ten allow the death penalty for homicide, with North Dakota being the exception.
Though several of the bills have already failed and others are expected to stall, the proposals signal a broader push within some Republican circles to legally define abortion as murder. Opponents — including Democrats and some anti-abortion groups — argue the legislation could also jeopardize access to birth control and IVF.
Despite mounting legal, political, and public resistance, advocates for the bills have vowed to continue reintroducing them in future sessions.
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