A bipartisan coalition of state senators rebuffed a bill that could have subjected women who receive an abortion to the death penalty, but supporters are vowing to

Republican state lawmakers in more than 10 states, including South Carolina, Idaho, Kentucky, Missouri, Georgia, Indiana, North Dakota and Oklahoma, have all introduced bills that would redefine abortion as homicide by defining a "person" or "human being" as inclusive of an "unborn" or "preborn" child.

On Thursday, the second attempt in modifying the state statutes on homicide to include abortion faced defeat with a vote of six to two.

The Oklahoma Senate Judiciary Committee killed four controversial bills Wednesday, Feb. 19. The Senate Judiciary Committee heard Senate Bills 380, 228, 456 and 829. SB380 was the first out of the four to be heard.

Three Oklahoma lawmakers have sponsored a bill that would allow abortion recipients in the state to be charged with murder. Senate Bill 456 seeks to modify Oklahoma’s homicide s

With abortion policy left to the states, far-right GOP lawmakers in nearly a dozen ultraconservative states — already with some of the nation's strictest abortion bans — are trying to tighten the reigns even more for pregnant people by opening them up to murder charges.

A bipartisan coalition of state senators rebuffed a bill that could have subjected women who receive an abortion to the death penalty, but supporters are vowing to

The bill's author is seeking to reintroduce Senate Bill 612, which was signed into law in 2022 and struck down by the Oklahoma Supreme Court in 2023.

Abortion rights advocates feared the 2022 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that opened the door to state abortion bans would also lead to tracking women and charging women who get abortions with murder. No states have allowed either, but the ideas, once off the table, have gotten attention in legislatures this month.

Sen. Dusty Deevers’ (R-Elgin) second attempt at legislation that would adjust the state’s definition of homicide to include abortion failed in the Senate Judiciary Committee Wednesday.

OKLAHOMA CITY (KSWO) - The Oklahoma Senate Judiciary Committee killed four controversial bills Wednesday, Feb. 19. The Senate Judiciary Committee heard Senate Bills 380, 228, 456 and 829. SB380 was the first out of the four to be heard. It seeks to place a monument of the Ten Commandments inside and outside of the Oklahoma State Capitol.

Many of the bills filed in state legislatures across the country focus on abortion pills, abortion access for minors, and, in at least one state, how to undo protections for the procedure, The 19th reports.