The Louisiana House’s criminal justice committee approved the bill in a 7-2 vote Wednesday. Republican state Rep. Danny McCormick introduced the bill in the House earlier this year, and it was voted on just days after a leaked Supreme Court draft decision suggested that the nation’s highest court will overturn Roe v. Wade.

 

“If more than 15 states can defy the federal government over marijuana, we can do it to save the lives of innocent babies,” McCormick said on social media of the bill.

 

Louisiana already has a “trigger law” criminalizing abortion if Roe v. Wade is overturned, which would subject doctors or others who perform abortions to up to 10 years in prison. The law, however, does not call for prosecution of pregnant woman.