The Daily Mail – Missouri’s Republican-led Senate passed a wide-ranging bill to ban abortions at eight weeks of pregnancy, acting hours after Alabama’s governor signed a near-total abortion ban into law. The bill needs approval in the GOP-led House before it can go to Republican Gov. Mike Parson, who voiced support for an earlier version Wednesday.
It includes exceptions for medical emergencies, but not for pregnancies caused by rape or incest. Doctors would face five to 15 years in prison for violating the eight-week cutoff. Women who receive abortions wouldn’t be prosecuted.
Republican Senate handler Sen. Andrew Koenig described it on Thursday as “one of the strongest” abortion bills yet passed in the U.S.
