A week ago, a Charleston judge blocked enforcement of the state’s 150-year-old abortion ban, saying the recent laws enacted by the West Virginia Legislature “hopelessly conflict with the criminal abortion ban.” In his announcement, Justice asked legislators to “clarify and modernize” the state abortion laws in the wake of the Supreme Court ruling. Jim Justice abruptly added state abortion law to the state’s Legislature’s agenda for a special session he called for Monday to focus on his income tax cut plan.

It provides exceptions only in cases where there is an ectopic pregnancy, a “nonmedically viable fetus” or a medical emergency. A bill introduced Monday makes providing an abortion a felony carrying up to 10 years in prison. He held a vertical sign that read “Babies Lives Matter.”Įlsewhere Monday, lawmakers in West Virginia’s Republican majority hurried to advance legislation that would criminalize abortion with few exceptions. “You don’t want to have a conversation,” Monaghan replied as they spoke over each other. That’s what you’re saying,” Kait Schultz, who wore a dark gray “Pregnant and Pissed” shirt, shouted to Christopher Monaghan. “You think you should dictate my life and my kids’ lives. Some people had virulent arguments encircled by other demonstrators One person carrying a message on cardboard - “Forced Birth Is Violence” - followed a man, who carried a fake red fetus in a plastic bag over his shoulder, and tried to obscure his sign that read “Save Our Babies.” “The parameters that are being proposed mean that for the vast majority of women, by the time she realizes she is pregnant, she will effectively be prohibited from having access to reproductive health care that will allow her to choose what happens to her body.”Ĭonfrontations erupted periodically between anti-abortion and abortion-rights demonstrators around the Indiana Statehouse. “Maybe some people need to actually learn how a woman’s body works,” Harris said Monday, eliciting murmurs and laughs from the Democratic legislators. The Supreme Court ruling is expected to lead to abortion bans in roughly half the states.

Supreme Court decision last month overturning Roe v. Indiana is one of the first Republican-run state legislatures to debate tighter abortion laws following the U.S. Despite the bill’s abortion ban language, anti-abortion activists lined up before a legislative committee to argue that the bill wasn’t strict enough and lacked enforcement teeth. Harris said during a trip to Indianapolis that the abortion ban proposal reflects a health care crisis in the country. INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Thousands of people arguing the abortion issue surrounded the Indiana Statehouse and filled its corridors Monday as state lawmakers began consideration of a Republican proposal to ban nearly all abortions in the state and Vice President Kamala Harris denounced the effort during a meeting with Democratic legislators.

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