Missouri moved to ban abortions after the eighth week of pregnancy, joining a host of states looking to get their laws before the Supreme Court.
Missouri is poised to become the eighth state this year to enact severe new restrictions on abortion after the state legislature on Friday easily passed a measure that would ban most abortions after the eighth week of pregnancy. The governor is expected to sign the bill once it reaches his desk.
Missouri's H.B. 126, which passed through the House on a vote of 110-44, is similar to a crop of bills known as “fetal heartbeat” measures which seek to ban abortions after a nascent heartbeat is able to be detected in utero, typically around six to eight weeks into pregnancy, before many women even know they are pregnant.
The reasoning behind heartbeat bills harkens back to the original 1973 Supreme Court decision which found abortion access to be a right guaranteed by the Constitution. In Roe v. Wade, the court held that a woman’s right to have the procedure was protected up until fetal viability, a standard that has been hotly contested as the anti-abortion movement gained prominence.
Heartbeat bills aim to establish a relatively early metric for viability, even though the theoretical heartbeat measured at this stage of pregnancy is little more than a cluster of immature cells with electrical activity, according to Jennifer Kerns, the director of research in obstetrics and gynecology at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital.
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