What: The Associated Press reports on legislative efforts across several states to introduce bills that would criminalize women for obtaining abortion pills—even in states where abortion is already banned—with penalties that could be as severe as murder. One legal scholar noted that frequent introduction of such bills may help normalize these punitive measures.
Key line: “The more often these bills are introduced, the more normalized these sorts of bills and these sorts of concepts that they’re pushing become,” explained law professor Laura Hermer.
Source: Associated Press