SB 456 Summary

• Designates the legislation as the "Abolition of Abortion Act" with the stated purpose of protecting preborn persons with the same criminal and civil laws protecting born persons.

• Amends the homicide statute to define "human being" as including an unborn child, while exempting the pregnant woman from prosecution for causing the unborn child's death unless she committed a separate crime causing that death.

• Exempts legal abortions with pregnant woman's consent and acts committed pursuant to standard medical practice during diagnostic or therapeutic treatment from homicide charges.

• Creates civil wrongful death liability for physicians who perform abortions that violate specified conditions including lack of informed consent, coercion, failure to obtain age verification or parental consent for minors, failure to screen for risk factors, or fraudulent inducement.

• Declares an emergency, making the act effective immediately upon passage and approval and applying prospectively only to conduct committed after the effective date.