Missouri lawmakers have passed a strict antiabortion bill that will criminalize the procedure at eight weeks of pregnancy, following several other conservative states that have approved similar measures. “Today, the Missouri House stood for the unborn,” the speaker said in a statement. “...The Missouri House made the statement that in Missouri, we believe an unborn child is a human life worth protecting,” he added. Similar legislation passed in Georgia, Mississippi and Ohio — and Alabama’s governor on Wednesday signed the nation’s most-restrictive abortion ban into law. Alabama’s new plan to ban abortion could jail doctors.

Source: Washington Post May 17, 2019 13:56 UTC